From Kirkus Reviews Dan Chambeaux, zombie private eye (Hair Raising, 2013, etc.), once again juggles a series of cases as deftly as if he were equipped with the same tireless tentacles as his chief suspect. In the Unnatural Quarter, it's either a feast or an orgy of malefactors. Just as Chambeaux & Deyer's former client, frog demon Lurrm, is celebrating the opening of the Recompose Spa, his smartly refurbished zombie bathhouse, the competition between Alastair Cumulus III and Chambeaux's client Thunder Dick over which of them will be elected head of the Weather Wizards Fraternal Order breaks into open warfare,...
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Many of you have followed my blogs about my adventures while hiking, often with my brother-in-law Tim. We both just completed the 500-mile Colorado Trail together, and we've both summited all 54 mountain peaks in Colorado over 14,000 ft.  Along the way we've learned much, experienced much, and built up some great stories to tell. WordFire Press just released Tim's book TALES FROM THE TRAILS, which collects the best stories of those adventures. It is available now in trade paperback and in all eBook formats. Here's the introduction I wrote for the book: Getting away from it all—and getting to...
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For those of you following my epic HELLHOLE science fiction trilogy with Brian Herbert, the waiting is over...and could be the end of the universe is at hand!  HELLHOLE INFERNO hits bookstores (and eTailer outlets for those of you who prefer to read electrons) tomorrow in the US and UK. After doing more than a dozen novels in Frank Herbert's DUNE universe, we used our collaborative skills to develop a sweeping, big SF trilogy with galactic empires, lost alien races, politics, a war for independence, ruthless leaders. HELLHOLE INFERNO is the grand finale.  Preorder your copy now at your favorite...
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485 miles from Denver to Durango, Colorado, through some of the most rugged and most spectacular wilderness in the state.  28 segments ranging from 11-23 miles long.  And Tim and I walked it all.  Last week we completed our final segment in the long journey, a remote 21-mile stretch from Kennebec Pass north of Durango, to Hotel Draw, south of Silverton. Tim and I started hiking the Colorado Trail eight years ago, working off one segment at a time, many of them with his wife Diane. We would often take two vehicles, park one at each end of a segment,...
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