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After Frank Herbert published his brilliant first novel THE DRAGON IN THE SEA in 1956, he spent years writing manuscript after manuscript, but was unable to find a publisher.  Until finally in 1963 he wrote a ground-breaking work about a desert planet, which changed the face of science fiction forever. His earlier works—four novels and […]

For many months I’ve been gasping for breath and telling you about my “deadline death march,” of working on (and delivering) one book after another.  Well, the payoff of that is plenty of reading material for my fans coming out in rapid succession.  Here’s what I’ve got coming up for the next year (note that […]

Readers of this blog will know that I spend a lot of time out hiking in the mountains, being inspired by nature as I dictate new chapters set on fantastic worlds.  You’ve seen a lot of my spectacular photos posted here. For four years now, my brother-in-law and hiking companion T. Duren Jones (a.k.a. Tim) […]

Continuing the (one week old) tradition—here is a teaser from another newly reissued novel, BLINDFOLD, my first big SF epic, a standalone science fiction novel just published in trade paperback and all eBook formats by WordFire Press. Atlas is a struggling colony on an untamable world, a fragile society held together by the Truthsayers. Parentless, […]