I grew up in small-town Wisconsin, surrounded by farms, cornfields...haunted houses, isolated neighbors, and not much else to do but read books and let my imagination run wild. I like to say it was a childhood halfway between Norman Rockwell and Norman Bates. Over the past twenty years or so, I have been writing a series of dark-fantasy stories that chronicle the history of a fictitious, cursed small town in Wisconsin, Tucker's Grove. Recently, I spent several months collecting this entire cycle, rewriting all the pieces to fit together—it's now available for the first time ever as an eBook original,...
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We've had a very busy month, meeting a lot of fans. A LOT of fans. In June we spent two weeks with Supanova in Australia, the pop-culture convention, where we signed a lot of autographs in Sydney and Perth. Then, after a couple of weeks at home, we headed off to San Diego for Comic Con International, 150,000 or so fans in the San Diego Convention Center; Rebecca was one of the special guest authors. Again, a lot of people. I needed some recharge time. After Supanova and before Comic Con, I went on two mountain climbs here in Colorado,...
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Returned home from another exciting, crowded, and fruitful San Diego Comic Con. I would have posted photos earlier, but we forgot to bring the download cable for the camera! We arrived on Wednesday, were picked up from the airport by Comic Con staff, and brought to the Omni hotel, right across from the Convention Center. (Rebecca was a Special Guest author for Comic Con, so we were treated very well. Thanks, SDCC staff!) We had an impromptu lunch with Alex Lencicki, my publicist from Orbit, and Orbit editor DongWon Song, relaxed a little in the afternoon, then went over to...
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For those of you trying to track me or Rebecca down at San Diego Comic Con, here's where you can find us: THURS: Noon: Kevin Panel, "Putting the Epic in Epic Fantasy" rm 6A (with George RR Martin, Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss, Christopher Paolini, Peter Orullian, KJ Taylor) 1:30 Autographing in Sail Pavilion (following panel) 3 PM–4 PM at Dunenovels Booth #1318 FRIDAY 11:30 Spotlight Panel on Rebecca Moesta Rm 9 Autographing after panel (K&R) 2:30-3:30 at Dunenovels Booth #1318 SATURDAY Dunenovels booth (see booth for schedule) SUNDAY 1:45 Panel (Rebecca) "Writing for the Middle Grade Audience: Engaging the Reader...
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