Each year at the Superstars Writing Seminar, one of the highlights is the VIP dinner, a special meal at a high-end restaurant where students have a chance to sit with one of the instructors and make a personal connection. This year the VIP dinner will take place on Wednesday night, May 15, at MacKenzie's Chop House, one of the finest steak houses in Colorado Springs.  At the VIP dinner, away from the classroom, each table has five students and one of our instructors seated together for hours of conversation on whatever topics they like.  Menu choices this year are: prime...
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Are you ready when all hell breaks loose? One month from today, March 26, HELLHOLE AWAKENING hits bookstore shelves!  I will be launching the book tour with a signing in San Diego at Mysterious Galaxy Books, and Brian will launch in Portland, OR, at Powell's Books.  We hope to see you at one of our appearances: full list below. If you would like a free download sample of the first two chapters of HELLHOLE AWAKENING, enter your email address at the top of the WordFire homepage. If you haven't read the first HELLHOLE yet, the eBook version is on special...
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These days I own two eReaders, a Kobo and a Kindle (three, if you count my iPhone, but I don’t read books on it).  At WordFire Press we’ve put up over sixty titles of my backlist novels as well as some by Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert, Doug Beason, Bill Ransom, and others. Most of them are eBooks only, but some are in print editions. (For the record, the eBook versions sell orders-of-magnitude more copies than the print editions.) At coventions or book-signings, when I mention my eBook habits or our publishing efforts, I often receive a defensive, even vehement response. ...
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The comments field on my blog gets bombarded by spam comments from people posing as real fans with generic posts (often with questionable English) like "wow, great job. Keep up the information. I found this very useful"—and a user name something like "fake Gucci Bags" or "Bahamas Vacations cheap." In the past few months, though, they've gotten even lazier.  Below is an actual comment submitted to my blog, one of six identical ones received in the last week.  Come on, guys—at least put in a little effort! {{I have|I've} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found...
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