We are busy preparing for the next Superstars Writing Seminar, which will be held in Colorado Springs, February 6–8 2014.  This is our fifth year holding Superstars, and each seems to get better than the last. Our regular instructors are Brandon Sanderson, David Farland, Eric Flint, James Artimus Owen, Rebecca Moesta, and Kevin J. Anderson, all of whom will be teaching in 2014.  This time we will also have guest instructors Diana Gill, Senior Editor of HarperCollins, Mark LeFebvre, of Kobo, Lisa Mangum, editor of Shadow Mountain Publishing, and others still to be announced. Early Bird prices are due to...
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New editions, at least. Authors hate it when their work is unavailable—and so do the fans, who are left haunting used bookstores to find battered copies of novels they missed the first time around.  It takes a lot of time, sweat, energy, and imagination to write a book, and so I would like to keep it available to anyone who wants to read it. So, I'm glad to announce three of my favorite original novels, BLINDFOLD, CLIMBING OLYMPUS, and ASSEMBLERS OF INFINITY (with Doug Beason) are now back in print, reissued in handsome trade paperback editions, as well as all...
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My friend and bestselling author Tracy Hickman and his wife Laura have already overwhelmingly funded a major new game project, SOJOURNER, through Kickstarter, an interactive storytelling board game sure to please all of Tracy's fans. In addition to being an extremely popular fantasy author, particularly for his DragonLance novels, Tracy is well-known in the gaming industry with a sterling reputation. To sweeten the Sojourner Kickstarter pot, Tracy asked two other bestselling authors, Larry Correia and myself, to throw in our talents as stretch goals.  If the funding reaches the $35,000 level—and it's almost there already—Larry Correia will write a special module,...
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The publishing world is changing (I know that’s a not much of a headline—everyone with open eyes and a modicum of sanity recognizes it). Anyone who approaches a career in writing as a get-rich-quick scheme is living more fiction than even the most preposterous novel. Now, writers have to be in this for the long run. For better or worse, the old model of a publisher paying a large up-front advance that rarely earns out is no longer valid. I’m tackling this first-hand both as an author and as a publisher. At WordFire Press we’ve released my own backlist as...
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