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Part 4.  Going Public  Shortly before the major release of the Terra Incognita novel THE EDGE OF THE WORLD and the crossover music CD from Roswell Six, BEYOND THE HORIZON, Rebecca and I attended the LA Times Festival of Books.  I was there on behalf of Orbit Books (for Terra Incognita) and HarperCollins (for my […]

TERRA INCOGNITA:  ANATOMY OF A BOOK RELEASE  This is the third of a four-part series about the release of Terra Incognita: THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (novel. Orbit Books) and Terra Incognita: BEYOND THE HORIZON (rock CD, ProgRock Records) on June 2. Part 3.  Paying Attention to the Readers and Fans  As we built toward the release of the […]

This is the second of a four-part series about the release of Terra Incognita: THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (novel. Orbit Books) and Terra Incognita: BEYOND THE HORIZON (rock CD, ProgRock Records) on June 2. Part 2.  Music and Words—Epic Fantasy Novel, Epic Rock CD  In Part 1, I described our efforts to begin building […]

This will be a four-part series on the background efforts behind the release of a book. Part 1:  Building Steam  Writing the novel isn’t enough.  In these days of numerous demands on the audience’s time and interest, an author can’t just deliver the finished manuscript to a publisher and trust that everything else will happen […]