My editor at Kensington Books sent me a delightful surprise this week—two new Dan Shamble, Zombie PI covers!  "Stakeout at the Vampire Circus" is an original novelette, Dan on the case at a traveling monster circus, where the freak show may be the most normal part of the business!  "Stakeout" will be released as an eStory in November.   The third book in the series, HAIR RAISING, comes out in May—and I was treated to that cover as well.  These are gorgeous illustrations that really capture the fun and craziness of Dan Shamble's world.   And, since I'm showing off,...
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Eleven years ago, in 2001, I embarked on writing the first chapters of HIDDEN EMPIRE, the start of my 7-volume epic The Saga of Seven Suns. I remember that day, taking my recorder and hiking up the beautiful local trail up to the lower and upper Palmer Lake Reservoirs, writing the initial scenes to introduce readers to the archaeologist Margaret Colicos and her faithful compy DD, Chairman Basil Wenceslas, the Ildiran military leader Adar Kori'nh, the green priest Beneto.  Today, I wrote the first three chapters in THE DARK BETWEEN THE STARS, the first novel in The Saga of Shadows,...
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Brian Herbert fans will be glad to see a new short novel of ecological disaster, now available in all eBook formats.  Brian wrote this story with good friend Bruce Taylor, "Mr. Magic Realism," and you can now read it for $3.99. After the Greenland ice cap suffers an abrupt and catastrophic collapse, Earth’s climate suddenly changes, turning the planet into a horrendous stormworld. Against this backdrop, men and women in the Cascade Seed Repository valiantly struggle to protect the food supply of civilization…. For Kindle All other eBook Formats
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Brian Herbert fans will be glad to see a new short novel of ecological disaster, now available in all eBook formats.  Brian wrote this story with good friend Bruce Taylor, "Mr. Magic Realism," and you can now read it for $3.99. After the Greenland ice cap suffers an abrupt and catastrophic collapse, Earth’s climate suddenly changes, turning the planet into a horrendous stormworld. Against this backdrop, men and women in the Cascade Seed Repository valiantly struggle to protect the food supply of civilization…. For Kindle All other eBook Formats
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