Tor Books has posted the jacket copy and the prologue from my new novel Hellhole with Brian Herbert.  It's free—sign in and read it at http://www.tor.com/hellhole/register. You can also watch the Hellhole promo trailer on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUxH6aIXeTU The book will be released in the US on March 15.  We'll be doing a 13-city US signing tour, schedule to be posted soon.
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I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin in the US, a rural area with farms, big red barns and tall grain silos . . . and nothing interesting to do.  Even as a little kid I was enamored with watching science fiction movies (the Saturday afternoon Sci-Fi Cinema that broadcast old black-and-white science fiction movies with silly special effects and rubber bug-eyed monsters that didn’t look at all silly to me at my wide-eyed age).  At the age of five, I remember seeing the George Pal version of The War of the Worlds, and it scared the daylights...
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After our panels, signings, and interviews at the SFX Weekender, Rebecca and I had a free day on Saturday to explore the medieval town of Rye, not far from Dover. Our hotel, the Mermaid Inn, was an extremely old hotel on a breathtakingly quaint (I mean that in a good sense) narrow cobblestoned street.  It was originally built in the 1100s and “remodeled” in the 1400s, although I believe the indoor plumbing, electricity, and wireless internet must have been added somewhat later. Our room was a grand, colorful suite where the Queen Mum had stayed in the 1980s and Johnny...
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Our official activities on Thursday didn’t begin until 11 AM, so I had plenty of time to go down the street to Starbucks for our morning coffee, then I finished the last of the thirty signed/sketched copies of Hellhole and packaged the boxes for pickup, and found I had time to edit a chapter in the room.  Time for the other duties. We met Nigel in the hotel lobby, who took us to London’s well-known SF specialty shop Forbidden Planet.  We met the staff, signed all of their new copies of Hellhole as well as their backstock, personalized several books...
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