A confluence of ongoing projects swirled around me this week, challenging my multiprocessing ability: •  Brian Herbert delivered his final edit of the HELLHOLE manuscript to me, and I’m going over the 679 pages one last time (up to p 375, as of today).  This is the ninth draft, and all the pieces are fitting together very well.  When I’m finished, Rebecca will go over the prose, line by line, to make as polished as possible before it goes into production. •  Rebecca finished STAR CHALLENGERS #1, and I read it a final time before sending it to June Scobee...
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I contributed a reprint article to a new writing advice book edited by Scott Nicholson, Write Good or Die.  The book also contains entries by Heather Graham, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, J.A. Konrath, and many others. Scott has made the book available for free download on most platforms (99¢ on Kindle). I have also attached the poster for the Colorado Book Awards (if you look hard, you can see The Edge of the World on top of the stack of nominated books).  In the photo, the two prominent mountains are the famous Maroon Bells, both over 14,000 ft,...
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