EP 407 - An Evening With A Drink And A Friend With Kevin J. Anderson

The loss of author and poet Danny Peart, Neil Peart's brother and how the first story Kevin and Neil wrote together named the main character after Neil's brother

Mark and Kevin's Rush and beer connection

Kevin's "music starter kit" to his grand-kids

The significance of the Rush album Grace Under Pressure to both Kevin and Mark

How the Columbia Music Record Club is what led to Kevin discovering Rush (because he was looking for sci-fi style album covers and Rush's 2112 jumped out at him)

The back-story to Kevin's Terra Incognita novels

Writing a novel that was a tie-in to a Rush album

How Kevin has been able to leverage Kickstarter to produce products that no New York publisher would likely ever get behind

The way a tribute song "No Words" about Neil Peart led to a new friendship and collaboration with Kevin

The music behind the Terra Incognita trilogy

Kevin's Kickstarter for Terra Incognita funding in 14 minutes, but the ultimate goal of earning back the high investment he has already put into it

The number of novels that Kevin has written

Benefits of being able to order books directly from the author versus going through the multiple layers of traditional publishing

Superstars Writing Seminars, the conference that Kevin, his wife Rebecca, Dave Farland, Eric Flint, and Brandon Sanderson started more than 15 years ago

The Masters of Creative Writing with a focus on Publishing that Kevin teaches at Western Colorado University

The annual anthology that this program publishes thanks to sponsorship from Draft2Digital

The latest musical collaboration Kevin recently announced

Kevin coming to Toronto's Massey Hall for RushFest on August 1, 2025

What books Kevin and Mark are currently working on

Favorite advice for running a Kickstarter and the real costs of shipping and handling

Kevin's love of hiking and dictating when he writes

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