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  The Fairmont Hotel in downtown Washington DC had an excellent fitness center and gym, much more than just a couple of treadmills and ellipticals.  I had never even seen some of the types of weight machines before.  I was able to get in a couple of good workouts, particularly for my legs (keeping in […]

Yesterday afternoon, just before heading out to our Washington, DC signing, we received the news that THE WINDS OF DUNE will debut at #15 on the New York Times bestseller list after only one week on sale.  This is our tenth DUNE novel in a row to hit the NYT list (and my 48th national […]

Before the evening appearance in Princeton, we were met for dinner by Stephen Youll (cover artist for most of our Dune novels, my Seven Suns novels, and my Star Wars anthologies) and his wife Jamie (who created the original cover design for House Atreides and the nine subsequent books).  We ate in a small Indian restaurant in […]

We left our New Haven hotel early in the morning, caught a train into Manhattan, and checked into the next hotel.  Another couple of HELLHOLE chapters edited on the way, a good slice of NY pizza for a late lunch, then a quick workout in the small hotel gym.  (And a quick burst of doing […]