Tor Books will be gradually releasing new designs of our Dune book covers in paperback, expanding and emphasizing a portion of the Stephen Youll art. Here is the cover for the new edition of The Butlerian Jihad, which I just received. I also wrote the frame story for a new anthology edited by Jean Rabe and Martin Greenberg for DAW Books, Time Shares, about a time-travel vacation agency. And I have an essay in the current Nebula Awards Showcase about science fiction in the 1970s. I will be editing next year's volume of the Nebula Showcase.
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Superstars Writing Seminar photos
The first Superstars Writing Seminar at the Pasadena Convention Center was a rousing success. Bestselling authors Brandon Sanderson, Eric Flint, David Farland, Rebecca Moesta, and Kevin J. Anderson spent three days giving lectures on the economics of publishing, developing an intellectual property, how editors look at manuscripts, balancing the real world and a writing career, literary agents, networking, self-promotion, collaboration, e-books and self-publishing, social media, and writing productivity. Guest speakers included producers and scriptwriters Steven L Sears (Xena, Sheena) and Marc Scott Zicree (The New Twilight Zone, Sliders), and T. Duren Jones (Promomania promotional products) and Joni Labaqui (Writers of...
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ROSWELL SIX RELEASES “TERRA INCOGNITA: A LINE IN THE SAND” Rancho Santa Margarita, CA Following up the success of the first effort, international bestselling author Kevin J Anderson and ProgRock Records announce the second Terra Incognita CD, “A Line in the Sand” to coincide with the publication of the second novel in his fantasy trilogy, The Map of All Things. “This CD features a different, grittier part of the story, focusing on the devastating generations-long war between continents, and it has an entirely different sound,” said Anderson. This time, the music is helmed by Henning Pauly (Frameshift, Chain, Shadows Mignon) and features an extensive new cast...
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My novel Enemies & Allies, about the first meeting of Batman and Superman in the 1950s during the Cold War, has just been nominated for the Scribe Award for best novel, given by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. Enemies & Allies also won the Project FanBoy Award for best comic-related novel, presented recently at MegaCon in Florida. Morrow and DC have released the design for the mass-market paperback cover, with a striking painting by legendary comic artist Alex Ross. The paperback will be in stores in September.
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