It's been an intense two months with a whirlwind of deadlines and appearances, and I've been stuck inside looking out at the beautiful weather (feeling like a kid with chicken pox not allowed to go out and play). But after I turned in two manuscripts, I blocked out part of a day and went on a hike in the Front Range, a spectacular trail to the Devil's Head fire lookout, a high rock outcropping with a breathtaking view of the foothills, the Pike National Forest with rock formations to rival South Dakota's Black Hills, and Pike's Peak in the distance....
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It's been an intense two months with a whirlwind of deadlines and appearances, and I've been stuck inside looking out at the beautiful weather (feeling like a kid with chicken pox not allowed to go out and play). But after I turned in two manuscripts, I blocked out part of a day and went on a hike in the Front Range, a spectacular trail to the Devil's Head fire lookout, a high rock outcropping with a breathtaking view of the foothills, the Pike National Forest with rock formations to rival South Dakota's Black Hills, and Pike's Peak in the distance....
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As Brian and I finish up the final read and polish of the manuscript of HELLHOLE AWAKENING (639 pages), we just received the remarkable cover sketch from Stephen Youll.  Steve has done many of our covers for years—most of the Dune novels, HELLHOLE, my three Star Wars anthologies, and BLINDFOLD. After working with our editor Pat LoBrutto, Brian and I suggested this scene to Steve, gave him the draft manuscript, and let him visualize it. You can see why we keep going back to Steve. This really captures what we were looking for, the grim landscape of Hellhole, the epic...
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We're very pleased to show off the just-released cover for Clockwork Angels: The Novel—one of my most beautiful covers ever. The central image is from the forthcoming Rush album, with the type and cover design by Neil Peart and Hugh Syme.  ECW will publish the hardcover in September (available for preorder now), a full-color volume with paintings and complete lyrics (and the novel itself, of course). From the sample pages I've seen already, this will be a gorgeous book. The novel is a colorful steampunk fantasy, and I think it has a great deal of heart. Neil and I are...
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