As I posted yesterday, T. Duren Jones and I just released the new 2015 TALES FROM THE TRAILS calendar with some of our best wilderness photos and a monthly story of one of our hiking escapades. Here's a sample of the January story and photo:  Doing the Impossible, as a Matter of Course  This year I turned 52, and Tim turned 60.  We started our main hiking season up in Steamboat Springs with a gruelling 21-mile loop through the Flattops Wilderness, and we followed that with a 22-mile hike near Durango, where we completed the Colorado Trail.  I climbed 14,286...
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Do you have your special calendar for 2015 yet?  Do you have your KEVIN J. ANDERSON calendar yet? Many of you have read my blogs about my epic hikes and mountain climbs, and I've posted countless photos of the beautiful places I explore in the wilderness. Each year I do a very special limited calendar with my brother-in-law (and frequent hiking partner) T. Duren Jones. TALES FROM THE TRAILS, featuring some of our gorgeous photos from our epic hikes as well as anecdotes about our trail adventures (or misadventures). We've just received the 2015 TALES FROM THE TRAILS calendar—probably our...
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Two days ago I delivered the final final FINAL manuscript of BLOOD OF THE COSMOS, the second book in the Saga of Shadows Trilogy—185,000 words long, 752 pages, 132 chapters...six drafts.  Yes, it was an enormous project, not just the length of the manuscript itself, but all the numerous characters, settings, plot lines, and the intricate choreography. I wanted to take you through everything that went on between Draft 5 and Draft 6.  It's a lot more than just reading and polishing here and there. On September 1, I delivered the Draft 4 manuscript to my Tor editor, Pat LoBrutto,...
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We just released the third volume in our FIVE BY FIVE military SF series, five all-new novellas by five military SF authors. TARGETS ARE LOCKED! Five short novels by five masters of military SF capture the excitement, and hell, of fantastic future war—on and off the battlefield. Stories of terrifying monsters, dangerous aliens and staggering cosmic dreadnaughts march alongside far-flung courtroom dramas and cautionary tales involving man and his devices. Michael A. Stackpole—The Star Tigers are commandeered by a powerful alien overseer on a covert mission to a world long abandoned by an ancient species. There, the ruins of a...
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