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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Another snapshot of one of the characters who finds himself on Hellhole, "the place to go when there's nowhere else to go."  In the overall epic, all of these characters must learn to rely on one another, and face the hazards of this terrible planet as well as the politics of the corrupt galactic government they left behind. Hellhole will be in US bookstores Tuesday, March 15. Vincent Jenet Back on his home planet of Orsini, Vincent had lived with his retired and sickly father Drew, tending the man’s worsening medical condition.  He worked in a repair shop for large...
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