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Cover for THE MAP OF ALL THINGS

Multiprocessing.  While on tour for The Winds of Dune, and editing chapters of Hellhole, I received the spectacular cover art for the second "Terra Incognita" novel, The Map of All Things.  Artist Lee Gibbons has done an excellent job; he wrote me that this was the first time he's been able to do "a full-fledged Ray Harryhausen painting."

I'm sitting on the train right now, heading from New Haven CT to Manhattan, and then tonight we are off to Long Island, NY for our 7 PM appearance at the Book R

Interviews and WINDS OF DUNE slingsacks

Brian and I arrived by train in Stamford/Old Greenwich, CT, for tonight's signing at Just Books @ Arcadia Cafe.  Brian and I each did a telephone interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to promote our signing on August 14, then Brian did another phone interview with the Toronto Star.  On the train and in the hotel room, I managed to edit three chapters of HELLHOLE.

Two more online interviews/features have been posted.

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Day 3: WINDS OF DUNE, Radio Satellite Tour and Harvard

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Starting at 8:15 AM, after I had run to the Starbucks around the corner from the hotel, Brian and I met in his room, picked up the two phone extensions, and began working our way through 13 radio interviews around the country, one after another, with occasional breaks.  We talked on stations from Raleigh/Durham, Los Angeles, Grand Rapids (MI), Portland (ME), Baltimore (MD), Charleston (WV), Boston, Peoria (IL), Colorado Springs, Denver, Cleveland (OH, Pittsburgh (PA), and Jackson (TN).  Toward t

DUNE Land Features on Saturn's Moon Titan

Wonderful and unexpected news yesterday: scientists have named recently mapped features on Saturn's moon Titan after planets in Frank Herbert's Dune novels.  Just another example of how much of a widespread impact DUNE has had.  Read the full story here.

FanCrush Network has just run a detailed interview with me on their site, which you can read by clicking the link above.

Day 2, WINDS OF DUNE Tour: Boston

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No early call today, so we got a chance to sleep in.  I used the hotel gym for a quick workout, then ate breakfast and packed the suitcases for our morning train to Boston.  Sick of train food after traveling across the country on Amtrak, Brian went to an Italian deli across the street and got us each a wrapped sandwich for lunch, then we caught a cab to the train station.

Penn Station during morning rush hour was like San Diego Comic-Con with mundanes instead of fans.  After picking up our ticke

First Day of WINDS OF DUNE Tour

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On Monday, I arrived in New York in early afternoon and had a few uncommited hours to walk around Manhattan, past the Empire State Building down to Times Square, where I sampled the beer at the Heartland Brewery, then had pizza at one of my favorite places, John's Pizzeria, then I went back to the room and relaxed for the evening by rewatching the new Star Trek movie on hotel TV.  Brian's train came in that evening, and we arranged to meet in the lobby the following morning.

Today's work started

The Shirt off My Back

For those of you who need to add to your wardrobes—

We're pleased to announce new t-shirts for sale to cover a wide range of fan interests.  Available now, we have new Roswell Six t-shirts, with the CD cover printed in full color on the back and "I Am the Point" on the front (you'll know what that means if you've listened to the CD).  Order from www.anderzoneshop.com.

Also, because so many of you have asked for it, we also have available "Kevin J. Anderson Fan" shirts, ash gray with maroon printin

Time Change for Long Island WINDS OF DUNE Event

The August 9th talk and signing at the Book Revue on Long Island, NY (scheduled for 3 PM) has been changed to 7 PM.  If you were planning on being there, please mark the change on your calendars.

Also, an extensive new review of The Winds of Dune has just been posted by Book Spot Central.  (Quite a few spoilers, though, so beware.)

The book is in stores on Tuesday.

Full tour schedule for WINDS OF DUNE

Here is the full appearance and signing schedule for our Winds of Dune tour, which starts next Tuesday.   At each event, Brian and I will give a talk, answer questions, meet with fans, and sign books.   We hope to see you there.

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Tues, Aug 4

New York

BARNES & NOBLE, Union Square

33 East 17th Street

New York, NY 10003

7 PM

Wed, Aug 5

Boston, MA

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

@ the Rabb Hall

700 Boylston Street

Boston, MA 02116

6 PM

Thurs, Aug 6

Harvard

HARVARD COOP (B&N)

1400 Massachusetts Ave

Cambridge, MA 02238

7 PM

Fri,

WINDS OF DUNE—next sample chapter

The second sample chapter of The Winds of Dune has now been posted.  You can read it on the MacMillan website.  The novel will be in stores in six days.

Tor also has a stunning new design for the mass-market paperback release of Paul of Dune, which comes out simultaneously with Winds.  Using the same excellent Stephen Youll cover painting, the designer converted it to a wraparound image that has the same striking feel as Winds.