I am currently in Gunnison, Colorado, as a keynote speaker and guest instructor at Writing the Rockies, a special event put on by Western College.  This area of the state gives me opportunities to hike (as well as dictate some chapters in MENTATS OF DUNE—9 so far on this trip). I was glad to have a chance to get out in nature and recharge my batteries, because I am just beginning a long and exhausting sequence of appearances.  I'll be at a lot of conventions and workshops over the next two months.  I hope to see you at one of...
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What a great hike!  My brother-in-law Tim and I finished another section of the Colorado Trail yesterday, some of the most beautiful scenery we have seen in Colorado so far (and we’ve seen a lot of Colorado).  After that hike, we’ve now completed 380 miles (of 485) on the “CT.” We stayed in the small, quaint, and beautiful mining town of Creede—very out-of-the-way, rustic, at the end of a box canyon and filled with mining ruins.  We had hoped to come out earlier in the summer, but a Hollywood movie production team had descended upon the town for the filming...
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ECW Press and ShowTech have created two wonderful special editions for Clockwork Angels: The Novel, limited to a total of 600, every one numbered and autographed by Neil Peart and me.  The Gold and Silver editions go on sale THIS FRIDAY July 27 at 10 AM ET. Gold Edition—This is really one of the coolest limited editions I've ever seen.  The final manuscript for Clockwork Angels: The Novel was 302 pages long. Neil and I autographed every page of the manuscript. This signed manuscript page is matted and framed, and accompanied by a limited art print of one of the...
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Two Fourteeners in one day—a pair of 14,000-ft peaks, Mount Evans and Mount Bierstadt. I’ve climbed both several times, individually.  In summer of 2010, I took my friend Harry Kloor up to the summit of Mount Evans, and then a few months later I took Neil Peart up to the summit, in between two Rush concerts at Red Rocks Amphitheater, where we brainstormed the story of Clockwork Angels: The Novel. But that was the easy way up.  Evans and Bierstadt are connected by a rugged (and legendary) Class 3 ridge, known as the Sawtooth. I have climbed all of the...
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