Rough Draft
Kevin J. Anderson & Rebecca Moesta
DANIEL TYKA
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Kevin J. Anderson is a #1 international bestselling author with over 130 books published and twenty-three million copies in print in thirty languages. He is best known for his Saga of Seven Suns science fiction epic, his Dan Shamble, Zombie PI humorous horror series, his Dune and Hellhole novels with fellow Writers of the Future judge Brian Herbert, his Star Wars and X-Files novels, and the innovative steampunk fantasy adventure Clockwork Lives, a novel version of the concept album by legendary rock group Rush, co-authored with drummer and lyricist Neil Peart.
With his wife of twenty-three years, Rebecca Moesta—also a Writers of the Future judge—Anderson has written fourteen volumes of the Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights series, the novelizations of several science fiction films, Star Trek and original comics, the Crystal Doors fantasy trilogy, and three science fiction adventures for the Challenger Learning Centers for Space Science Education. As a solo writer, Moesta has written novels for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Junior Jedi Knights, and several short stories.
Together, Anderson and Moesta run the high-end Superstars Writing Seminars in Colorado Springs, and they are also the publishers of WordFire Press.
Kevin says, “Over years of watching brilliant, up-and-coming writers burst onto the scene—winning awards, grabbing review attention—and envying their raw talent, I also began to notice a pattern that baffled me. Some of these true creative geniuses, who had the literary world on a silver platter, just … gave up and vanished. I couldn’t understand it. They obviously had the ideas and the skills to become truly well-known and successful, but for some people this scared them to death. I thought a lot about this and wondered about all those wonderful stories that could have been written. In ‘Rough Draft,’ one such writer has the opportunity to see an alternate timeline and read the work that he might have written, if only he’d stuck with it. The idea felt really powerful to me, and as I was putting the pieces together, I worked with Rebecca who could add an extra layer of emotional resonance. Of all the stories I’ve written, this one has a very special place in my heart.”
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Daniel Tyka is also the illustrator for “Switch” in this volume. For more information about Daniel, please see his bio here.