Yesterday afternoon, just before heading out to our Washington, DC signing, we received the news that THE WINDS OF DUNE will debut at #15 on the New York Times bestseller list after only one week on sale.  This is our tenth DUNE novel in a row to hit the NYT list (and my 48th national or international bestseller). In 1976, Frank Herbert’s CHILDREN OF DUNE became the very first genre science fiction novel to hit the New York Times bestseller list.  GOD-EMPEROR OF DUNE, HERETICS OF DUNE, and CHAPTERHOUSE DUNE all made the list.  Now, 33 years later, THE WINDS...
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Before the evening appearance in Princeton, we were met for dinner by Stephen Youll (cover artist for most of our Dune novels, my Seven Suns novels, and my Star Wars anthologies) and his wife Jamie (who created the original cover design for House Atreides and the nine subsequent books).  We ate in a small Indian restaurant in downtown Princeton.  The heat and humidity were oppressive, and by the time we got to the store for the signing, Brian and I were both drooping, and the fans in the audience were fanning themselves furiously.  Dave and C’Anna Bergman-Hill, a couple that Brian had...
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We left our New Haven hotel early in the morning, caught a train into Manhattan, and checked into the next hotel.  Another couple of HELLHOLE chapters edited on the way, a good slice of NY pizza for a late lunch, then a quick workout in the small hotel gym.  (And a quick burst of doing "travelers' laundry" with detergent in the sink, rinse in the bathtub, and hanging clothes on the towel racks). Then back to Penn Station to catch a train on the Long Island Railroad out to Huntington, NY for our evening signing at the Book Revue.  This...
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Multiprocessing.  While on tour for The Winds of Dune, and editing chapters of Hellhole, I received the spectacular cover art for the second "Terra Incognita" novel, The Map of All Things.  Artist Lee Gibbons has done an excellent job; he wrote me that this was the first time he's been able to do "a full-fledged Ray Harryhausen painting." I'm sitting on the train right now, heading from New Haven CT to Manhattan, and then tonight we are off to Long Island, NY for our 7 PM appearance at the Book Revue in Huntington.  The past two nights, Brian and I...
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