A special treat this time, the first chapter of MENTATS OF DUNE, our follow-up to SISTERHOOD OF DUNE. The novel will be released in hardcover and electronic form in *one week*, next Tuesday.  Jacket copy: The struggle for humanity’s future continues.  The thinking machines have been defeated after Serena Butler’s terrible Jihad. But now, civilization in the fledgling Imperium faces an even greater threat—human fear and fanaticism. Gilbertus Albans has lived a secret, artificially extended life for nearly two centuries: first as the young ward of the sadistic robot Erasmus, and then for eight decades after the Battle of Corrin,...
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The first week of February, we held our fifth annual Superstars Writing Seminar, this year in our permanent home of Colorado Springs. We had our usual primary speakers Brandon Sanderson, David Farland, James Artimus Owen, Eric Flint, Rebecca Moesta and me. Our guest instructors were Diana Gill from HarperCollins,  Lisa Mangum from Shadow Mountain Books, Mark Lefebvre and Christine Munroe from Kobo, as well as a few others. With about 70 attendees—including many returning students from previous years—we had a fantastic time. Superstars is a three-day seminar devoted to the business side of writing and career building, NOT the craft...
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I just received the sad and unexpected news that Aaron Allston, extremely popular Star Wars author, game designer, and my friend for many years, passed away at a science fiction convention, VisionCon in Springfield, MO. Aaron was a beloved part of the Star Wars track at DragonCon for many years, and I saw him each Labor Day weekend.  It was an annual event to have the "Star Wars author panel" with Aaron, Mike Stackpole, Timothy Zahn, David Farland, and me—the room was always packed, and we all interacted wonderfully. We were the "bearded, balding Star Wars authors"...but Aaron screwed up...
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HELLHOLE AWAKENING, the second novel in my epic SF "Hellhole" trilogy with Brian Herbert, was just released in mass-market paperback in the US and UK.  The third and final volume, HELLHOLE INFERNO, will be released this August. (I'm working on final tweaks to the manuscript today!) ••• In 1999, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson released their first prequel to Frank Herbert’s science fiction masterpiece DUNE, which became a runaway international bestseller and award-winner.  Now, after producing other highly popular novels in the expanded DUNE universe, they have turned their imaginations to a fascinating SF epic entirely of their own...
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