My novel Enemies & Allies—the first meeting of Batman and Superman in the 1950s during the Cold War—has just hit bookstore shelves in hardcover from Morrow and DC. Jacket text: "As America and the Soviet Union race to build their nuclear stockpiles, two extraordinary heroes must form an uneasy alliance. These studies in opposites—shadow and light—must overcome their distrust of each other to battle evil and injustice. "Sputnik silently circles in the skies above the fabled cites of the United States as danger lurks in the Earth's darkest corners. In Gotham, the shadowy vigilante known as the Batman haunts...
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We've put up brief samples of another six tracks of the "Terra Incognita: Beyond the Horizon" CD on the music player on the Roswell Six profile page. Now you can get a flavor of almost all the songs on the CD. Also, our copies have arrived in the warehouse. We are shipping the preorders NOW if you got your copy from either ProgRockRecords.com or Anderzoneshop.com. The CD will officially be in stores in early June. Also today I finished my first edit on the manuscript for Terra Incognita #2, The Map of All Things—728 pages, 183,000 words, similar in length...
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Terra Incognita CD Launch and Nebula Weekend
Last week eight members of Roswell Six gathered at the BJs Brewhouse in Westwood, CA for a celebration dinner. Shawn Gordon arrived with the finished CDs, which had just arrived at the warehouse. Rebecca and I came with the newly printed Roswell Six posters. Mike Alvarez (cello), Chris Quirarte (drums), Kurt Barabas (bass), and vocalists John Payne and Michael Sadler also arrived for a marathon signing session. That weekend was also the LA Times Festival of Books and the Nebula Awards banquet, hosted by Janis Ian. And here, a bunch of photos from the events: Roswell Six -- clockwise from...
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Fellow writer and friend Ken Rand passed away on April 21, 2009. Ken was like a sponge, always interviewing writers, talking about writing, listening, asking questions, and absorbing everything. I first met Ken around 1993 when Rebecca and I were guests at the Life, the Universe, and Everything conference at BYU. Ken was assigned to watch over us (and to procure us coffee on a distressingly decaffeinated Mormon campus). We had only to mention that something "would be nice" and it would appear before the end of the next panel. But Ken got something out of all that work, too—he took every spare moment to ask...
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