The CLOCKWORK LIVES novel is a beautiful example of the bookmaking craft from ECW Press, a work of art with red leatherette stamped cover, endpapers, color printing, line illustrations. The unabridged audiobook is just out—and I think that's pretty special, too. CLOCKWORK LIVES is like a steampunk Canterbury Tales, the journey of Marinda Peake across the land of Albion, with airships, carnivals, the Watchmaker, the Anarchist, pirates, sea monsters, and more. Along the way, she collects the tales of others who have led interesting lives. The audiobook has as many unique narrators as there are stories. One reader does the...
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We’ve got enough of what scares you. I put together a monstrous collection of books for storybundle.com, a dozen tales of werewolves, zombies, dinosaurs, bloodthirsty serial killers, vampires, and more. Who wants candy for Halloween?—this is a better treat. Monsters Unleashed! A dozen monster books, and you name your own price. I’ve done quite a few bundles before, so you probably already know how it works. Pay whatever you feel the books are worth, and you decide how much of the money goes to the authors, to a charity (the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, in this case), or...
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You never get a second chance to make First Contact. I am thrilled to be working with BushiGo to develop the first "appisode" series for my Saga of Seven Suns universe, the prequel VEILED ALLIANCES. The first six-minute appisode, "Confrontation at the Prism Palace," is the pilot segment of an animated serial adaptation of Veiled Alliances, the prequel to the Saga of Seven Suns, enclosed in an app, and it’s optimized for viewing on mobile devices. The cast features the voices of Robert Picardo, known to sci-fi fans as the Doctor in “Star Trek Voyager”, and Kyle Hebert, known to anime fans as the English voice of Gohan...
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That's Draft 7, 142,000 words, and the grand finale of the Schools of Dune trilogy that was begun with SISTERHOOD OF DUNE (2011) and followed by MENTATS OF DUNE (2014). Look for NAVIGATORS OF DUNE to be released next May (approximate date) by Tor Books (US) and WordFire Press (UK). Here is the excellent cover by Stephen Youll. Brian and I did our basic plotting of NAVIGATORS in an afternoon at a restaurant when we were both guests in Seattle at Norwescon in Seattle in March 2013, during the book tour for HELLHOLE AWAKENING. We were coming off the heels...
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