Several months ago I hinted at a big movie deal in the works, but the paperwork and studios grind very slowly.  But we can finally announce a major feature film option on my eco-thriller ILL WIND, written with Doug Beason, to Fox Studios. It is the largest oil spill in history: a supertanker crashes into the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environmental damage (as well as the PR disaster), the multinational oil company releases an untested designer oil-eating microbe to break up the spill. What the company didn’t realize is that their microbe propagates through...
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Here's a taste of my Nebula-nominated hard-SF novel cowritten with Doug Beason, ASSEMBLERS OF INFINITY—alien nanotechnology and a disaster on the Moon!  ASSEMBLERS is also featured as one of nine science fiction books in the Cosmic SF Bundle currently running (for one more week!) on storybundle.com The crew of Moonbase Columbus make an amazing discovery on the far side of the Moon—a massive alien structure is erecting itself, built up atom by atom by living machines, microscopically small, intelligent, and unstoppable, consuming everything they touch. The mysterious structure begins to expand and take shape, and its creators begin to multiply....
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An international cadre of authors and musicians team up in an experimental fusion of reading, technology, and music—the newest grab bag of entertainment goodies from storybundle.com. I’m one of the curators for storybundle, and I’ve put together science fiction, fantasy, and horror bundles before, plus a forthcoming bundle of Urban Fantasy and another bundle of books on the craft and business of writing to be released in November (Nanowrimo month). Today, storybundle.com is launching an innovative new multimedia bundle, with an amazing mix of fantasy fiction and fantasy music—music that tells a story, the perfect soundtrack to your reading.  Eleven writers...
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WordFire Press is pleased to be the publisher of a brand new eco-fantasy thriller written by New York Times bestseller Brian Herbert (and, of course, my frequent coauthor) and his wife Jan.  A gripping and expansive epic about the wonders of the ocean, mutant humans, and a war against the corrupt polluters on land. The tide has turned—and the sea and all its denizens are fighting back! OCEAN is available in trade paperback print form and in all eBook formats. Bestselling author Brian Herbert and his wife, Jan, have combined their talents to create an epic ecological fantasy novel. In...
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