Now this is really cool.  Brilliance Audio is creating an amazing special edition for their unabridged audio of CLOCKWORK ANGELS: The Novel, read by Neil Peart.  A special packaging designed in part by Hugh Syme, a real clocktower and a working clock, stained-glass insets! Preorder for $79.99. This special edition features the complete, unabridged audiobook packaged in a unique, working upright clock tower designed by the band’s album cover artist, Hugh Syme. Intricately themed and largely handmade, this is a beautiful and functional design piece that will be a must-have for Rush fans and steampunkers alike. Did I mention that...
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Now this is really cool.  Brilliance Audio is creating an amazing special edition for their unabridged audio of CLOCKWORK ANGELS: The Novel, read by Neil Peart.  A special packaging designed in part by Hugh Syme, a real clocktower and a working clock, stained-glass insets! Preorder for $79.99. This special edition features the complete, unabridged audiobook packaged in a unique, working upright clock tower designed by the band’s album cover artist, Hugh Syme. Intricately themed and largely handmade, this is a beautiful and functional design piece that will be a must-have for Rush fans and steampunkers alike. Did I mention that...
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Does something smell funny?  Enjoy the first chapter of the new, freshly unearthed Dan Shamble, Zombie PI novel, UNNATURAL ACTS, now lurking in book stores. I never thought a golem could make me cry, but hearing the big clay guy’s sad story brought a tear to my normally bloodshot eyes.  My business partner Robin, a lawyer (but don’t hold it against her), was weeping openly. “It’s so tragic!” she sniffled. “Well, I certainly thought so,” the golem said, lowering his sculpted head, “but I’m biased.” He had lurched into the offices of Chambeaux & Deyer Investigations with the ponderous and...
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Remember that full-time career writer who worked on one book at a time, concentrated on that work only, saw it through from start to finish, and then considered his next project?  Yeah, I don’t remember him either. None of my writer friends ever pulled that off and still made a living.  We've always got lots of things on tap, juggling projects as fast as we can. This month, two of my books were published—the paperback of Sisterhood of Dune with Brian Herbert, and the new trade paperback publication of Unnatural Acts, the second Dan Shamble, Zombie PI novel. In March,...
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