Last week I went off on a writing retreat to Breckenridge. Colorado, where I holed up in a ski condo to do a lot of editing work on HELLHOLE INFERNO, written with Brian Herbert, and to write a new Dan Shamble Zombie PI holiday novelette, "Naughty and Nice."  I love going to places like this off-season because it's like a ghost town, too late for summer vacationers and too early for ski season—it's quite, it's inexpensive, and I get a lot of uninterrupted work done (despite a few too many reminders of The Shining or Misery). The lodge where I...
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I have a story appearing in a just-released anthology, METASTASIS, to benefit cancer research, from Wolfsinger Publications. “Walk with us.” —Jay Lake Walk with us as we explore the world of cancer as seen through a speculative fiction lens. Hold our hands while we venture into the world of what-ifs. Take a journey at our side as we experience the full spectrum of what cancer has to offer. The light, the darkness. Within these pages you'll meet a woman who adores her cancer as a lover, another who sees it as her ticket to immortality. We'll meet a boy willing...
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We are pleased to announce another great guest speaker and panelist for the upcoming Superstars Writing Seminar, February 6–8 in Colorado Springs, LISA MANGUM from Deseret Books and Shadow Mountain Press. Lisa Mangum has worked in the publishing department of Deseret Book since 1997. She specializes in editing fiction for the Shadow Mountain imprint and has worked with several New York Times best-selling authors, including Ally Condie, James Dashner, and Jason F. Wright. While fiction is her first love, she also has experience working with nonfiction projects (memoir, educational, cookbooks, etc.) and some children’s picture books. She loves finding that “diamond...
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Next April, ECW (the publishers of Clockwork Angels: the Novel) will release a fine new edition of my first novel RESURRECTION, INC. which includes an extensive new introduction and afterword by me, detailing influences in the book and on my career, from Frank Herbert to Rush. While I was developing and writing the novel, RESURRECTION, INC was shaped and inspired by the Rush album "Grace Under Pressure" and that's how I came to know Neil Peart. It's been a long and exciting 25 years.  Now, it's with immense pleasure (and a certain amount of disbelief) that ECW's forthcoming 25th anniversary...
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