Kevin J. Anderson’s Blog

• HELLHOLE AWAKENING cover sketch
  As Brian and I finish up the final read and polish of the manuscript of HELLHOLE AWAKENING (639 pages), we just received the remarkable cover sketch from Stephen Youll.  Steve has done many of our covers for years—most of the Dune novels, HELLHOLE, my three Star Wars anthologies, and BLINDFOLD. After working with our editor [...]
• Cover released for CLOCKWORK ANGELS: The Novel
  We’re very pleased to show off the just-released cover for Clockwork Angels: The Novel—one of my most beautiful covers ever. The central image is from the forthcoming Rush album, with the type and cover design by Neil Peart and Hugh Syme.  ECW will publish the hardcover in September (available for preorder now), a full-color volume [...]
• FEELING LIKE A SUPERSTAR
  Rebecca and I just came back home from Las Vegas and the third—and, by all accounts, best ever—Superstars Writing Seminar. We had about sixty very dedicated students at the Golden Nugget, and instructors Brandon Sanderson, David Farland, Eric Flint, Rebecca Moesta, and me, as well as guest speakers Dean Wesley Smith and James A. Owen, [...]
• Rush “Headlong Flight” from CLOCKWORK ANGELS
  Rush has released a new single from their forthcoming CD Clockwork Angels, “Headlong Flight”—so fans can start gathering more pieces of the wonderful steampunk adventure story told by the music in the album and in the Clockwork Angels novel I’m writing with Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. Listen to “Headlong Flight” in their music [...]
• Full Schedule for Superstars Writing Seminar
  One week from today the third Superstars Writing Seminar launches at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas.  Here is the detailed schedule for the lectures. We hope to see you there! MONDAY 8:00 AM Intro, seminar overview, introduce speakers 8:30 From a Newbie to #1 Bestseller in 4 Years Brandon Sanderson 9:30 It’s Business: How [...]