As if five international bestselling authors wasn't enough to teach you the real nitty-gritty about a successful writing career, we've got three excellent guest speakers for the 2013 Superstars Writing Seminar. JIM MINZ James Minz has been an editor in genre publishing for nearly twenty years, and is currently Senior Editor with Baen Books (with previous stints at Del Rey and Tor). He has worked Catherine Asaro, Hal Duncan, Eric Flint, Terry Goodkind, Elizabeth Haydon, Nancy Kress, Elizabeth Moon, Mark Van Name, Frederik Pohl, John Ringo, Robert J. Sawyer, Travis S. Taylor, Harry Turtledove, David Weber, Jack Williamson, Gene Wolfe,...
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After three highly successful Superstars Writing Seminars—Las Vegas in 2012, Salt Lake City in 2011, and Pasadena in 2010—we are putting together next year's event. Superstars 2013 will be in Colorado Springs, Colorado, May 14–16 at the historic Antlers Hotel at the base of Pike's Peak. (This is the place where Katherine Bates wrote the song "America the Beautiful" in 1895—so it already has a creative history, not to mention a spectacular setting.) The Superstars Writing Seminars are intensive three-day events about the business side of publishing, writing, and managing your career—taught by five international bestselling writers, as well as...
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I've already written three novels featuring the hilarious adventures of Dan Shamble, Zombie PI, along with his ghost girlfriend, his bleeding-heart lawyer partner, and his Best Human Friend Officer Toby McGoohan. Now you can read a new standalone Dan Shamble novelette, STAKEOUT AT THE VAMPIRE CIRCUS—an original case for only $2.99 in all eBook formats. “LADIES AND ZOMBIES, IN THE CENTER RING…” Zombie P.I. Dan Shamble and his ghost girlfriend are called to the Vampire Circus when a fortune teller’s cards go missing. Not exactly the glamorous life, but the stakes escalate when a vampire trapeze act goes dead wrong,...
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Eleven years ago, I spent a week out in spectacular Capitol Reef National Park, hiking day after day with my microcassette recorder, and writing dozens of chapters in HIDDEN EMPIRE, the first volume in my “Saga of Seven Suns” series. It was a terrific way to get real momentum going and to immerse myself in the big universe I was creating. Now, as I’ve just dived into writing THE DARK BETWEEN THE STARS, the first volume in a new “next-generation” trilogy set in the Seven Suns universe, it seemed a perfect opportunity for me to go back to Capitol Reef. ...
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