The following brief article was written for the Tor newsletter: HELLHOLE: There's No Place Like Home Who says the galaxy has to be a pleasant place to settle down?  I grew up reading space opera stories set on strange alien planets filled with lush flora and exotic creatures, steamy dinosaur-filled jungles on Venus, bleak but poignant lost civilizations on Mars. Of all the planets in habitable zones around stars, a great many may fit in the broad category of “fit for human life,” but that doesn’t mean they’re comfortable for human life.  In the classic Dune, Frank Herbert was one...
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MacMillan Audio has made available an excerpt of the unabridged audiobook of Hellhole, the prologue and first chapter—read by our long-time narrator Scott Brick, whose voice will be familiar to listeners of our previous books. To listen to the excerpt, click here. Also, I was recently the guest on two episodes of the Writing Excuses podcast, hosted by Brandon Sanderson, Howard Tayler, and Dan Wells, on the topics of "Writing in Other People's universes" and "The Writer's Responsibility to the Reader."  If you are interested in the writing process, you should be a regular subscriber to Writing Excuses.  Have a...
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MacMillan Audio has made available an excerpt of the unabridged audiobook of Hellhole, the prologue and first chapter—read by our long-time narrator Scott Brick, whose voice will be familiar to listeners of our previous books. To listen to the excerpt, click here. Also, I was recently the guest on two episodes of the Writing Excuses podcast, hosted by Brandon Sanderson, Howard Tayler, and Dan Wells, on the topics of "Writing in Other People's universes" and "The Writer's Responsibility to the Reader."  If you are interested in the writing process, you should be a regular subscriber to Writing Excuses.  Have a...
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Locus Magazine just gave us a very nice nod in their Year in Review:  "Coffee table book L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future: The First 25 Years, edited by Kevin J. Anderson (Galaxy Press) is an overview of the contest's history with an eye-opening series of profiles of contest winners and judges, including biographical profiles and personal comments about the contest and their careers.  This volume highlights how many of today's successful and up-and-coming writers have been involved with the contest." SF Crowsnest also included Writers of the Future: The First 25 Years in their 100 Best SF...
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