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Last Saturday Rebecca and I were guests riding on the Star Wars-themed float in the Denver St. Patrick’s Day Parade. We joined members of the Rocky Mountain Fan Force, the 501st Legion, the Mandalorian Mercs, and the Rebel Legion — which included plenty of Stormtroopers in kilts, Boba Fett, Jango Fett, Leia, Luke, various Jedi […]

Frank Herbert’s never-published novel HIGH-OPP is now available!  $4.99 in all eBook formats, all countries.  (We will have the print version in a couple of weeks.)  This science fiction dystopia is one of many manuscripts Frank Herbert wrote after the publication of his first novel, The Dragon in the Sea, and before he sold his […]

My hard-SF novella TAU CETI is now available for free Kindle download, courtesy of the publisher Arc Manor, along with a sequel novelette written by Steven Savile. Jorie Taylor has lived her whole life on the generation ship Beacon. Fleeing an Earth tearing itself apart from its exhaustive demand for resources, the Beacon is finally […]

Brad Torgersen is one of my former students both at Writers of the Future and  Superstars Writing Seminars. I thought other aspiring writers would particularly enjoy this essay Brad wrote.  Brad will also be attending the upcoming Las Vegas Superstars Writing Seminar. ON NOT QUITTING One week ago, I got a call from the President […]