I get a lot of questions from people interested in coming to one of our booksigning events.  I’ll try to answer the most common ones below, so you know what to expect if you attend a signing. Yesterday I described the process of dropby signings, stopping in at area bookstores, signing the copies on the shelves, meeting bookstore staff.  A formal talk and booksigning is a much different event, open to the public, a chance for us to meet the fans, chat with them and answer questions, autograph their books. Brian and I will give a brief talk about Hellhole,...
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Release day of Hellhole.  With a full day ahead of me, I took care of email early in the morning, posted a new blog, finished a few last-minute edits on a new novel manuscript and then sent the file to my agent, and headed out the door by 9:30 so I could be at my first bookstore stop for the day, a Borders on the south side of the Denver metropolitan area. Jeana, my author escort for the day, met me at the store just after it opened at 10 AM; the store had already pulled all of my various...
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Hellhole hits bookstores all across the US today, and Brian Herbert and I celebrate the launch day by traveling around to our (separate) area bookstores, to autograph shelf stock and meet bookstore managers. Brian has an author escort in the Seattle area, and they are scheduled to drop by nine different bookstores.  I'm heading up to Denver in an hour to meet my author escort, with a scheduled list of 12 bookstore dropbys in the greater Denver and Boulder area.  I'm being interviewed and shadowed by a reporter from a Denver-based magazine Westword (I'll try not to spill coffee on...
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It takes a certain toughness to make a new life in a very difficult environment, but some people see opportunities instead of the misery.  Sophie Vence is a no-nonsense businesswoman, a single mother with a 19-year-old son.  Here is her background of how she came to Hellhole. painting by Stephen Youll SOPHIE VENCE Despite the lessons she had learned from hard experience, Sophie still considered herself a romantic at heart. On Klief, one of the old Crown Jewel planets, she had married a charismatic and ambitious corporate climber, five years older than she.  Gregory Vence courted her with talk as...
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