The second sample chapter from The Edge of the World is now available on the Terra Incognita widget. For those of you who have the widget on your site, or if you want to look at it on the homepage at www.wordfire.com, click "Chapters" and you can read the first two samples from the novel. Also, the Terra Incognita: Beyond the Horizon CD has been featured on the main Dream Theater website. James LaBrie, lead singer for DT, provides the vocals on three tracks on the CD, as the character Omra. Free Hardcover Contest: We are continuing the contest for...
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Last week, with the large draft manuscript of Terra Incognita #2—The Map of All Things—looming in front of me, I went away for three days to stay alone in a lovely and peaceful cabin in Estes Park, at the edge of Rocky Mountain National Park. Rebecca's foot has recovered well enough after her surgery, so she can get around and be self-sufficient. With laptop and bags of groceries, and no telephone, not even cell phone reception, I holed up and was able to work uninterrupted for days in a row. This allowed me to get up a significant head...
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One more sample track from the "Terra Incognita" CD has been put up, this time on Michael Sadler's MySpace page. "Letters in a Bottle" is a powerful, moving ballad featuring Michael's vocals as the sailor Criston, writing letters to his distant love, sealing them in a bottle and trusting them to the waves. (Michael was the lead singer for the band Saga for nearly 30 years and dozens of albums.) This song also features incredible violins by David Ragsdale, the violinist from the group Kansas. Those of you who have listened to Lana Lane's symphonic power ballad "Merciful Tides" will...
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One more sample track from the "Terra Incognita" CD has been put up, this time on Michael Sadler's MySpace page. "Letters in a Bottle" is a powerful, moving ballad featuring Michael's vocals as the sailor Criston, writing letters to his distant love, sealing them in a bottle and trusting them to the waves. (Michael was the lead singer for the band Saga for nearly 30 years and dozens of albums.) This song also features incredible violins by David Ragsdale, the violinist from the group Kansas. Those of you who have listened to Lana Lane's symphonic power ballad "Merciful Tides" will...
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