UPDATE: Due to overwhelming response, our climbing group is at capacity. If you want to be placed on a waiting list, please email reed (at) via (dot) com. In August 2010, on a day between two Rush concerts at Red Rocks Theater near Denver, Neil Peart and I climbed a mountain—Mount Evans, 14,265 ft, and on that climb we plotted the story and characters of CLOCKWORK ANGELS (a hike described in detail in Neil's afterword to the novel).  Now, some Rush fans want to re-create that climb this summer, and I have agreed to lead them. Mount Evans is a...
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WordFire Press just teamed up with Humble Bundle for an exciting “Sci-Fi Specials” bundle of our titles, a full sampler of 18 of our books, and you pay what you want. Unlike other bundles I’ve run, fully half of the titles here are not available to the general public at the launch of the bundle, and the other half have never appeared in bundles before. You can get ALL of the titles for as little as $15—worth $106 if you bought them separately. KJA fans will find a new reissue, Artifact, a high-tech thriller featuring the Daredevil’s Club, which I...
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In April, ECW Press will release the epic anthology 2113: Stories Inspired by Rush. It's available for Preorder Now, from online booksellers as well as your favorite bookstore, so you can be sure to be the first kid on your block with a copy. 18 epic stories—science fiction, fantasy, thriller, dystopia, adventure—inspired by the music of Rush. Edited by me and John McFetridge, and it includes 16 original works, as well as reprints of "A Nice Morning Drive" by Richard S. Foster (Neil Peart's original inspiration for "Red Barchetta") and "Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz Leiber (original inspiration for the...
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It's always a challenge to juggle the subjects and the speakers. So many things to cover in three days of nuts-and-bolts industry and career information! This looks like our best Superstars Writing Seminar yet. If you haven't signed up, you still have a couple of weeks.  Go to the Superstars website. THURSDAY 8:00    Welcome and Opening Remarks 8:30    The Popcorn Theory of Success—Kevin J. Anderson 9:30    The Economics of Publishing—Eric Flint 10:30  Making Money in Hollywood—David Farland, Jim Butcher, James Artimus Owen LUNCH 1          How to Build an Intellectual Property—KJA, Jim Butcher, Bill Fawcett (M) Collaboration—Jody Lynn Nye (M),...
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