Just wrapped up a great show at Denver Comic Con. This is our local show, and easier to pack up all the books and booth display for our table—but still a lot of work.  Two vehicles fully loaded with boxes of books and setup materials—I drove one up, and WordFire Press managing editor Peter J. Wacks and his BLOODLETTING coauthor Mark Ryan drove the other. We set up the table on Thursday night and were ready to go for the launch on Friday! photo by Steven L. Sears My long-time friend (and fellow Superstars Writing Seminars founder) David Farland was...
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How’s this for a deal? A wide variety of universes and futures, all in one big bundle—and you can name your own price. I’ve participated several times in the great bundles from storybundle.com, and this new batch—the Cosmic Science Fiction Bundle—has got something (or more than one something) for every SF fan.  Nine science fiction books, bestsellers, award winners, classics, short stories, grand epics—and you name your own price. The way storybundle.com works is that a group of indie authors pool their books and help promote the whole bundle, sharing their fanbases. Readers get a great title by a favorite...
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This week I'm giving you the introduction and sample chapter to a new book we just released at WordFire Press, written by award-winning authors Jay Lake and Ken Scholes, who were two of my writing students at Writers of the Future. I've done my best to mentor these two as they needed it over they years, and they've both become quite successful authors for Tor Books. Jay just recently passed away on June 1 after a long battle with cancer, and we rushed METATROPOLIS through production, getting a finished copy in his hands less than two weeks before he died....
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A little more than 25 years ago, I published my first novel, RESURRECTION, INC., a science fiction/gothic horror/murder mystery that was inspired by the Rush album "Grace Under Pressure."  The editor who bought that novel (and three more) for Signet Books, John Silbersack, moved over to Warner where he bought more novels from me, then moved to HarperCollins where he signed me up to write three X-Files novels...and later he became (and still is) my literary agent. Because of the novel's connection to the Rush album (which I mentioned in the acknowledgments of the book), I received a 7-page single-spaced...
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