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Hellhole hits bookstores all across the US today, and Brian Herbert and I celebrate the launch day by traveling around to our (separate) area bookstores, to autograph shelf stock and meet bookstore managers. Brian has an author escort in the Seattle area, and they are scheduled to drop by nine different bookstores.  I’m heading up […]

It takes a certain toughness to make a new life in a very difficult environment, but some people see opportunities instead of the misery.  Sophie Vence is a no-nonsense businesswoman, a single mother with a 19-year-old son.  Here is her background of how she came to Hellhole. painting by Stephen Youll SOPHIE VENCE Despite the […]

Another snapshot of one of the characters who finds himself on Hellhole, “the place to go when there’s nowhere else to go.”  In the overall epic, all of these characters must learn to rely on one another, and face the hazards of this terrible planet as well as the politics of the corrupt galactic government […]

I’ll be posting some snapshots and background stories on characters in Hellhole, so readers can meet the people and understand what brought them to a planet that’s at the bottom of anyone’s list. Tor Books has already published an excerpt of the prologue and first chapter (http://www.tor.com/hellhole/register), so readers have met General Tiber Maximilian Adolphus. […]