Stephen Youll, the fantastic artist who has done most of our Dune covers (as well as my three Star Wars anthologies and my solo novel Blindfold) has delivered his cover paintings for HELLHOLE, the first book in my new epic SF trilogy with Brian Herbert.  Steve painted two variations on a spectacular scene that really captures the planet Hellhole...a terrible place that only the most desperate colonists will accept, but also with a majestic secret.  An all-new science fiction saga for those who enjoyed my Dune novels with Brian Herbert or my Saga of Seven Suns series. The version without...
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Last Tuesday I climbed spectacular Mount Ouray, a very distinctive peak prominent on the drive to Salida, Colorado.  Ouray is 13,971 ft, a hair shy of a Fourteener—which means that very few people climb it, regardless of how spectacular it is. I got up at 5 AM for the 3 hour drive, up 14 miles of dirt road to reach Marshall Pass and the start of the hike at 10,800 ft.  I headed out past an old miner's cabin, across a meadow and through sparse trees, then a half mile of a very steep (50 degrees) grassy slope to reach...
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Philip Athans, the managing editor for novels at Wizards of the Coast, has just put together an extensive and extremely useful book for aspiring authors in SF/F, The Guide to Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction.  He did extensive interviews with me, R.A. Salvatore, Mike Resnick, Terry Brooks, and other bestselling, award-winning authors to develop an extensive guidebook on all aspects of developing, writing, and publishing in the genre.  Storytelling, Characters, Worldbuilding, Details, Nuts & Bolts, Polishing, as well as a whole section on business.  R. A. Salvatore even provides a new, unpublished story for a complete deconstruction and analysis. A...
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