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A special treat this time, the first chapter of MENTATS OF DUNE, our follow-up to SISTERHOOD OF DUNE. The novel will be released in hardcover and electronic form in *one week*, next Tuesday.  Jacket copy: The struggle for humanity’s future continues.  The thinking machines have been defeated after Serena Butler’s terrible Jihad. But now, civilization […]

The first week of February, we held our fifth annual Superstars Writing Seminar, this year in our permanent home of Colorado Springs. We had our usual primary speakers Brandon Sanderson, David Farland, James Artimus Owen, Eric Flint, Rebecca Moesta and me. Our guest instructors were Diana Gill from HarperCollins,  Lisa Mangum from Shadow Mountain Books, […]

I just received the sad and unexpected news that Aaron Allston, extremely popular Star Wars author, game designer, and my friend for many years, passed away at a science fiction convention, VisionCon in Springfield, MO. Aaron was a beloved part of the Star Wars track at DragonCon for many years, and I saw him each […]

HELLHOLE AWAKENING, the second novel in my epic SF “Hellhole” trilogy with Brian Herbert, was just released in mass-market paperback in the US and UK.  The third and final volume, HELLHOLE INFERNO, will be released this August. (I’m working on final tweaks to the manuscript today!) ••• In 1999, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson […]