"Barricade" is the first track on the new Terra Incognita CD, A Line in the Sand, a hard-driving symphonic rock epic with lyrics by Rebecca and myself, music by Henning Pauly, and vocals by Steve Walsh of Kansas fame. The CD will be officially released next month to accompany the publication of the second novel in the trilogy, The Key to Creation. Book 1, The Edge of the World, was just reissued in a mass-market paperback. I have also just learned that The Edge of the World has been nominated for the Colorado Book Award for best novel of 2009 written...
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Since 1995 I have been a judge for the Writers of the Future Contest, an avid supporter for much longer than that . . . and even a contestant in the early years (before I became disqualified by earning my chops as a professional writer). Last year marked 25 years of the contest -- a quarter century of amazing success in introducing and encouraging new writers in the genre. I’ve spent the past week (and will spend the next several) sifting through archives, contacting many of the winners and judges, to put together a lavish coffee-table book, a retrospective of...
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I receive many queries about my writing technique, so here's a full description. This article first appeared in the BULLETIN of the Science Fiction Writers of America TALKING TO MYSELF Kevin J. Anderson If you see a person walking along engaged in a vigorous conversation with no one else around, it doesn’t necessarily mean he’s escaped from the nearest asylum. It could be me talking to myself. But don’t be concerned, don’t interrupt me, don’t bother me at all -- I’m writing. It’s been about fifteen years since I gave up the keyboard and took up a recorder for my...
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Created for the new CD, which will be out in early June. Preorders on the ProgRock Recordswebsite will be shipped a month sooner, plus they come with an autographed page from the manuscript of the companion novel, The Map of All Things. Feel free to share the poster image.
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