This year was the 25th anniversary of DragonCon, which bills itself as “the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the universe!”  Of those twenty-five DragonCons, I’ve been to at least seventeen of them and was even a guest of honor a few years ago.  It was former DragonCon Chair Ed Kramer who put me together with Brian Herbert to do the new Dune books, and in 1999 we launched Dune: House Atreides at DragonCon; in 2005, DragonCon helped us celebrate the 40th anniversary of the publication of...
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We're ready to head off to Atlanta this morning for DragonCon, one of our favorite conventions of the year.  We have a table in the downstairs dealer's room with autographed copies of many of my books, and you can find me there in between panels.  We will also have free SISTERHOOD OF DUNE posters for anyone who stops by, as well as some other freebies. Rebecca and I have an official autograph session on Sunday at 11:30 AM I am reading at 4 PM Saturday—please try to attend this one! I will be reading the first chapter of SISTERHOOD OF...
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We are pleased to unveil Tor's revised cover for SISTERHOOD OF DUNE. This shows a female Fremen commando on a spice raid, not a member of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. In the previous painting, she was holding a gigantic bazooka-like gun, which we didn't like. Now she has a crysknife to make it more apparent that she's a Fremen.  Also, her face and hair were very similar to another cover the same artist had painted, and so that has been changed as well. SISTERHOOD OF DUNE will be released in January 2012.  I'll post book-tour details as soon as they're...
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Rebecca and I were invited to attend the national Challenger Center conference in Arlington, VA, where we gave a talk about the Star Challengers books and also attended a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery for the Challenger Seven.  It's been 25 years since the Challenger accident, and 25 years since the founding of the Challenger Learning Centers to help carry on the mission and continue to promote careers in science and engineering. Rebecca and I woke up on Wednesday morning to the news that a 4.2 magnitude earthquake had struck southern Colorado, but we didn't feel it.  During our...
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