If you're interested in attending this year's Superstars Writing Seminar in Colorado Springs, don't forget that time is running out to sign up for the Kobo scholarship. Kobo Writing Life, one of the staunch supporters and sponsors of Superstars, has offered a generous opportunity for YOU to attend the next seminar in Colorado Springs, CO, February 6–8, 2014. The Kobo Writing Life scholarship will provide one lucky winner with a free tuition for Superstars, currently a $799 value. To sign up, fill out the entry form by following the link below. Deadline is December 1. KOBO WRITING LIFE SCHOLARSHIP Also, note...
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I've agreed to write a new short story for two new anthologies that are now up as separate Kickstarter projects, WINTER IN THE CITY and CARS, CARDS, AND CARBINES. Each of these projects has a very cool high concept and a great cast of authors. But the stories will only happen if the projects fund. Please take a few minutes to look at the video, the authors who have agreed to contribute. If either of these books looks like something you'd like to read, consider contributing. You can make the stories happen. WINTER IN THE CITY Noisy, crowded, ever in...
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If you've looked at the hardcover of CLOCKWORK ANGELS: The Novel, or seen the images from the Rush "Clockwork Angels" tour, you know how lavish and visually interesting the story and the world is. So it was natural to think about a graphic novel adaptation as well. BOOM! Studios, one of the largest comics publishers in the US, will be releasing CLOCKWORK ANGELS: The Graphic Novel in six beautiful issues, scripted by me, beginning next April, simultaneous with the trade paperback release of the novel from ECW. Even before the novel was published, at San Diego Comic Con (July 2012)...
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This is an innovative way to read a story. I was invited to be one of the authors in the new Amazon Kindle Serials program, where readers will get a new book of mine one piece at a time, each week for eight weeks. Kindle Serials commissioned me to write THE DRAGON BUSINESS, which I blogged about as I produced it during the summer. This is a hilarious fantasy spoof about a group of medieval con men who travel from kingdom to kingdom selling their services as dragonslayers...even though there's no dragon. For fans of the Dan Shamble books, you'll...
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