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HIDDEN EMPIRE Available As $1 e-book

Orbit Books has just made a special offer of Hidden Empire, the first book in my "Saga of Seven Suns," as part of their One Dollar Orbit program.  Here's your chance to try the opening novel for a buck.  If you enjoy Hidden Empire, all the rest of the volumes are available in paperback, audio, and e-book formats.

Also, I was just Guest Editor at Audible.com's science fiction page, with a new essay. Audible has quite a few of my titles available.

The first Terra Incognita book, The Edge of the Worl

First Review of THE WINDS OF DUNE

From Publishers Weekly:

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The Winds of Dune Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Tor, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2272-2

Set immediately after Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah (1969), this satisfying tale from Herbert’s son and Anderson (Paul of Dune) follows Jessica, the mother of galactic emperor Paul Atreides, as she returns to the desert planet Dune for her son’s funeral. Paul’s suicide after his mistress’s childbed death leaves his sister, the insane and brutal Alia, as regent for his twin childr

Unabridged Audio Edition of Dune HOUSE trilogy

A decade ago, Books on Tape produced an unabridged audio edition of House Atreides, House Harkonnen, and House Corrino on cassette, which has long been difficult to find (and difficult to use, unless you have an old cassette player around the house).  At last we have entered an arrangement with Tantor Audio (who produced the spoken version of The Last Days of Krypton) to produce new unabridged audios of the trilogy.

Scott Brick, whose excellent, award-winning voice has graced all of our other Dun

New WINDS OF DUNE cover

After overwhelming fan response and surveys, Tor Books has decided to adapt the UK version of the WINDS OF DUNE cover for the US release.  Most of the feedback I’ve received from readers who compared the two was that they found the UK version much more striking.

Stephen Youll has done an incredible job for us on the past ten DUNE covers, and his painting for WINDS was up to his usual excellence.  However, after more than a decade of using the same cover design, with the small-format painting in a

More Interviews, More Reviews

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It’s already been a busy season with reviews, interviews, and articles. 

Broken Frontier just ran a profile feature, which you can read here:

http://www.brokenfrontier.com/lowdown/p/detail/andersons-allies

And here are two reviews of The Edge of the World:

http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/fantasy/the-edge-of-the-world/

http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2009/06/edge-of-world-by-kevin-anderson.html

My best review ever from Uzbekistan!  (In fact, the Orbit Books publisher Tim Holman wrote to say this

Terra Incognita fan videos

Terra Incognita, both the novel and the CD, has inspired the greatest outpouring of fan energy I’ve ever seen for one of my projects.

Here’s a computer-animated book trailer done by Seth Lickiss

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and a Roswell Six video done by Lauren Lang

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Thanks, Seth and Lauren!

Interviews and Contest Winners

Announcing this month’s contest winners, names drawn from those who have posted the Terra Incognita widget and/or included Roswell Six songs on their profile.  These three have received autographed hardcovers—Lauren Lang (Colorado, Paul of Dune), Jennie Posthumus (Virginia, Enemies & Allies), and Teresa Williams (Alabama, Last Days of Krypton).  Congratulations.

Also, the third sample chapter of THE EDGE OF THE WORLD has now been released on the Terra Incognita widget.  Read the sample.  The book

TERRA INCOGNITA: Anatomy of a Book Release, Part 4

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Part 4.   Going Public

 Shortly before the major release of the Terra Incognita novel THE EDGE OF THE WORLD and the crossover music CD from Roswell Six, BEYOND THE HORIZON, Rebecca and I attended the LA Times Festival of Books.  I was there on behalf of Orbit Books (for Terra Incognita) and HarperCollins (for my new Batman/Superman novel, ENEMIES & ALLIES).

 The night before my appearance at the Festival, Shawn Gordon from ProgRock Records met us for a launch party at a local brewery and pizza parl

TERRA INCOGNITA: Anatomy of a Book Release, Part 3

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TERRA INCOGNITA:  ANATOMY OF A BOOK RELEASE

 This is the third of a four-part series about the release of Terra Incognita: THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (novel. Orbit Books) and Terra Incognita: BEYOND THE HORIZON (rock CD, ProgRock Records) on June 2.

Part 3.   Paying Attention to the Readers and Fans

 As we built toward the release of the novel and its accompanying rock CD, the buzz began to increase, week after week, as the word spread.

 Since Orbit had developed such an ambitious and beautiful widget con

TERRA INCOGNITA: Anatomy of a Book Release, Part 2

This is the second of a four-part series about the release of Terra Incognita: THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (novel. Orbit Books) and Terra Incognita: BEYOND THE HORIZON (rock CD, ProgRock Records) on June 2.

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Part 2.   Music and Words—Epic Fantasy Novel, Epic Rock CD

 In Part 1, I described our efforts to begin building steam for the release of the novel Terra Incognita: THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, months before its release.  However, I had actually begun another part of the project almost two years earlier, du