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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We have finalized the hotel details for those attending the 2013 Superstars Writing Seminar in Colorado Springs this coming May 14–16.   We have a special rate at the stunning hotel, the Antlers Hilton, right at the base of Pike's Peak, $109 per night, which includes free parking in downtown Colorado Springs.  This historic hotel has plenty of creative vibes—it's the very place where Katharine Lee Bates wrote the song "America the Beautiful" in 1893.  So come and see those "purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain"! The hotel is already sold out for regular visitors during these dates, but...
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