Attention, Dan Shamble fans! A new expanded, special edition of the Zombie P.I. Collection WORKING STIFF is just out from Gauntlet Press, hardcover, signed, numbered, even some high-end editions in slipcases or special trays. Perfect for the zombie collector! The Gauntlet Press special edition of WORKING STIFF has a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry—and signed by him, too!—an afterword by me, AND a very cool bonus, the complete never-before-published 42-page comic script of "Unnaturally Normal," written with Richard Dean Starr—the comic team-up between Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I., and Kolchak the Night Stalker!  The comics will...
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This year, through sales of our benefit anthology ONE HORN TO RULE THEM ALL, as well as generous donations from individual benefactors, we have funded FIVE scholarships for the Superstars Writing Seminar (February 4-6, Colorado Springs). You have only thirty days left to submit your application for a chance to be granted one of those five paid admissions to Superstars. Thirty days. You can do lots of things in thirty days like be a NaNoWriMo winner, travel 3/8ths of the world in a hot air balloon alongside Phileas Fogg, or survive a ravenous vampire clan in a small Alaskan town...
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  For those of you who couldn’t attend the Superstars Writing Seminar in person, you can now listen to all the lectures and workshops, and experience the seminar vicariously. The complete set of 20 lectures over the three-day workshop is now available in MP3 files for $350. You won’t get the networking and the connections from the seminar, but you will get the knowledge The Superstars Writing Seminars are one of the most influential and motivating experiences for up-and-coming writers to learn about the business side of writing and network with incredible guest instructors.  Over the last six years, partners...
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  As you can see, I am falling behind. Catching up on my cons! With all the traveling and shows I do, you might think they all blur together—but each convention has its own distinctive character and special memories. DragonCon, held in Atlanta over Labor Day weekend, is probably my favorite convention of the year, every year. Rebecca and I counted, and we’ve now been to 21 DragonCons. On the flight in, traveling with Peter Wacks, we also found Timothy Zahn sitting just behind us. (All three of us are writing for the new HEROES REBORN TV show.) I was...
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