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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Due to a series of unfortunate commitments, travel schedules, and other book obligations, I found myself facing a rather tough deadline for the first massive book in my new “Saga of Shadows” trilogy set in the Seven Suns universe.  I had been planning the novel for a long time, but there was always some emergency, some crunch proofing deadline, some quick project that takes precedence. When you’re faced with a manuscript that could be nearly a thousand pages long, it’s easy to procrastinate. But with the draft manuscript due to my editors in the US and UK this January, I...
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