Truly Epic may be overused, but at least that’s what it felt like to me. Last week I made a trip with brother-in-law Tim to northern Colorado where we stayed in the ski and spa town of Steamboat Springs. I love Steamboat and have been there many times, but this was Tim's first visit. We planned to do a legendary 20-mile loop hike out in the Flattops Wilderness, circumnavigating and ascending a huge mesa and then crossing a unique and nail-biting geological feature called the Devil's Causeway.  (With all our hikes, considering all the landmarks named after the Devil, he...
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Blame it on me being swamped with finishing up the first draft of BLOOD OF THE COSMOS, but I never got around to giving everybody fair warning that the early bird prices for the 2015 Superstars Writing Seminar were increasing on July 15.  Since I didn't give all of you fair warning, we've decided to extend the price break until the end of the month. Until July 31,  admission for new members is $849, students $699 and alumni $599.  Prices go up after the end of the month. Signup at the main Superstars Writing Seminar site. This is the sixth...
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My buddy and coauthor Brian Herbert has a new solo novel just released in hardcover by Tor Books, a science fiction ecothriller, THE LITTLE GREEN BOOK OF CHAIRMAN RAHMA. Here's a taste of the first two chapters. If you liked our Dune or Hellhole novels, you might enjoy this novel. A revolution has taken over the government of the United States and the environment has been saved. All pollution has been banned and reversed. It's a bright, green new world. But this new world comes with a great cost. The United States is ruled by a dictatorship and the corporations are fighting...
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The Dark Between the Stars is finally out. And what an exhilarating, exhausting effort that was! Due to a series of unfortunate commitments, travel schedules, and other book obligations, I found myself facing a tough deadline for the first book in a new trilogy set in my popular Saga of Seven Suns universe—The Dark Between the Stars. I had been planning the novel for a year, but there was always some emergency, some crunch proofing deadline, some quick project that took precedence. So I didn’t get around to starting when I thought I would. Besides, when facing a manuscript that...
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