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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One of Frank Herbert's most beloved classics, Destination: Void, is now available in trade paperback ($14.99) as well as all eBook formats.  WordFire Press released the electronic edition several years ago, and it has consistently been one of our best-sellers, but many readers have asked for the hardcopy edition.  You can now order it from amazon.com and other booksellers. The starship Earthling, filled with thousands of hybernating colonists en route to a new world at Tau Ceti, is stranded beyond the solar system when the ship’s three Organic Mental Cores—disembodied human brains that control the vessel’s functions—go insane. An emergency...
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One of Frank Herbert's most beloved classics, Destination: Void, is now available in trade paperback ($14.99) as well as all eBook formats.  WordFire Press released the electronic edition several years ago, and it has consistently been one of our best-sellers, but many readers have asked for the hardcopy edition.  You can now order it from amazon.com and other booksellers. The starship Earthling, filled with thousands of hybernating colonists en route to a new world at Tau Ceti, is stranded beyond the solar system when the ship’s three Organic Mental Cores—disembodied human brains that control the vessel’s functions—go insane. An emergency...
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The 2013 Superstars Writing Seminar is shaping up to be the best ever, with yet another great guest speaker—James A. Owens, returning after his popular appearance at the Las Vegas Superstars.  James A. Owen has been working professionally as an illustrator and storyteller for more than two decades. In 2003 James won the AI award for Best Novel, and was nominated alongside books by Stephen King and Michael Crichton for the prestigious Phantastik Preis for Best International Novel.  In 2006 James published Here, There Be Dragons. The book is in its sixth hardcover printing, its eighth paperback printing, and is being...
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