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04 Nov

At the Sharjah Book Fair, United Arab Emirates

Posted by Kevin J. Anderson | Travel & Appearances, Writing |

Rebecca and I just got home Sunday night, after 23 hours in transit, from Dubai via Frankfurt then Denver. We were invited to be guest authors at the Sharjah Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates, a trade show that is also open to the public; they reported 600,000 attendees last year. Our appearance came about because of Terra Incognita. At the Book Expo in New York last May, our friend Claude Sandoz (whom we know from the Writers of the Future Contest) introduced us to Ahmed al-Amri, the director of the Sharjah Fair. In addition to running one of...
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22 Oct

ILL WIND Reissue in January

Posted by Kevin J. Anderson | Writing |

My eco-thriller Ill Wind, written with Doug Beason, will be reprinted by Tor Books in January. This will be its fourth edition, and the recent disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has made the story all too relevant. It's the largest oil spill in history... A crashed supertanker in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environmental damage, and a PR disaster, a multinational oil company releases an untested designer microbe to break up the spill—an oil-eating microbe designed to consume crude oil, until its appetite expandes to include anything made of petrocarbons: oil...gasoline...synthetic fabrics...and plastic of all...
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20 Oct

More Miles on the Trail, More Chapters

Posted by Kevin J. Anderson | Dune, Travel & Appearances, Writing |

Catching up on last month’s trip. In late September, the weather was turning cold and crisp, and we knew that the hiking season would soon draw to a close. Time enough, though, for one last overnight expedition to hike a section in the Colorado Trail. I was nearly finished with dictating my chapters in The Sisterhood of Dune, and I looked forward to a long drive and plenty of hours on the trail so that I could have some real creative time to finish my writing. The Colorado Trail is 483 miles long, divided into 28 segments, and runs from...
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15 Oct

A Day at Work

Posted by Kevin J. Anderson | Advice, Blogging, Business, Novels, Process, Publicity, Short Stories, Travel & Appearances, Writing |

A few years after my first novels were published, David Brin asked me if I would collaborate with him on a short story. At the time, David was at the height of his career, winner of numerous awards, a New York Times bestselling author, one of the most respected names in the field. I, on the other hand, had far fewer credits. Although we had known each other for a while, I was still surprised by the offer. “Really? Why would you want to collaborate with me?” “Because I want to figure out how you can be so prolific.” So,...
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At the Sharjah Book Fair, United Arab Emirates

ILL WIND Reissue in January

More Miles on the Trail, More Chapters

A Day at Work

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