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Brian and I just received this letter from a Marine stationed in the desert.  Perhaps not as unpleasant a place as fictional Arrakis, but still a tough place to do pleasure reading: “Hi, I am a U.S. Marine over in Afghanistan right now and since I joined the Marines I haven’t read a book in […]

The Challenger Centers for Space Science Education have created a detailed Teacher’s Guide to accompany the first novel in the Star Challengers series, Moonbase Crisis.  This Guide is an educational companion to help extend the learning as students enjoy the novel. The book includes a series of Language Arts lessons based on science and technical […]

Here’s the schedule of panels for the next Superstars Writing Seminar, which will be held in Salt Lake City, January 13–15.  As you can see from the list of topics, this three-day seminar is packed with great stuff, no-nonsense and practical material taught by six bestselling authors.   We’re not aware of anything comparable for […]

Rebecca and I just did an hour-long Writers Advisory conference call about collaborating, various techniques, the reasons to do it, pitfalls, etc.  You can listen to the MP3 free by clicking on Collaboration Discussion Also, in the spirit of the holidays—as well as to tie in with the Collaboration subject—we are offering a $200 discount […]