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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I have two new book releases to start out 2013: Unnatural Acts, the second full-length Dan Shamble, Zombie PI novel, and the paperback of Sisterhood of Dune, with Brian Herbert. UNNATURAL ACTS In the Unnatural Quarter, golems slave away in sweatshops, necromancers sell black-market trinkets to tourists, and the dead rise up—to work the night shift. But zombie detective Dan Shamble is no ordinary working stiff. When a local senator and his goons picket a ghostly production of Shakespeare in the Dark—condemning the troupe's "unnatural lifestyles"—Dan smells something rotten. And if something smells rotten to a zombie, you're in serious...
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Want to read the first chapter of HELLHOLE AWAKENING?  Two years ago, Brian Herbert and I launched a new science fiction epic trilogy with HELLHOLE, a planet struck by an asteroid centuries ago and nearly destroyed, Only the most rugged and eccentric colonists try to make a home there, fighting earthquakes, eruptions, vicious alien life forms, and the remnants of a lost civilization.  Led by the exiled rebel General Tiber Adolphus, the settlers have made a home in this hellish place . . . until the corrupt galactic government wants it back! HELLHOLE AWAKENING comes out in March.  To check...
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Time to look back on the publications from 2012, but a visual is always more effective!   Another good year, and I've already got a lot of irons in the fire for 2013, with the first new release UNNATURAL ACTS (Dan Shamble, Zombie, PI), due out in January. And, for a special treat—zombie flesh tastes funny. Want a free sample?  My standalone Dan Shamble story, "Stakeout at the Vampire Circus," is now available as a FREE DOWNLOAD for Kindle and nook.  If you haven't yet been introduced to my hilarious zombie private detective, this is a good place to start.  
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