My followers know I never make political posts, but in this case it’s particularly important.   We get the government we deserve. If you don’t vote, then you let someone else make the decisions for you. If you don’t vote, then you have no right to complain about any leader, any political action, any right taken away from you, or any economic downturn.   Please vote, and PLEASE DO YOUR RESEARCH. Each election, Rebecca and I spend an hour or so reading the ballot initiatives, reading the For and Against arguments, and looking at who is behind them. You can’t...
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It's time to embark on a reading quest, and I've got a baker's dozen of books that will fill your imagination with magic, monsters, and heroes. I've curated this year's Truly Epic Fantasy Storybundle featuring some of the most ambitious and talented indie authors. I'm putting in my just-released volume of Selected Stories: Fantasy, and I'm really proud of this collection spanning much of my career: 26 stories in a wide range of fantasy about obsessed sea captains, shape shifters, enchanted loincloths, bumbling knights in shining armor, ghosts haunting Shakespeare's Globe Theater, a homeless mother and a troll under a bridge,...
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Stoke the fires on the big steel wheels!  Exciting news, so keep your fingers crossed that this moves forward.  Here's the official announcement: Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart have optioned their steampunk fantasy adventure CLOCKWORK LIVES to writer/producers Benjamin Raab & Deric A. Hughes (Arrow, The Flash, Warehouse 13).  CLOCKWORK LIVES is set in the universe of the concept album CLOCKWORK ANGELS by legendary rock band Rush and Anderson’s New York Times bestselling novel of the same title. Anderson and Rush drummer and lyricist Peart wrote CLOCKWORK LIVES as a companion to ANGELS in a novel published by ECW...
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It’s that time of year: November is “Nanowrimo” or National Novel Writing Month, when ambitious authors take the challenge to write the first draft of a novel from start to finish in a month. While gearing up for the challenge, writers are looking for advice, techniques, and resources. And boy do we have a toolkit for you! I’ve curated an impressive collection of  a dozen books on writing that will be inspirational, helpful, maybe even provocative. You can get all of the books for as little as $15, and a portion of the proceeds goes directly to benefit the Challenger...
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