Landscapes by Kevin J. In the late '80s, a novel called Resurrection Inc. He wrote that the book had been partly inspired by an album called Grace Under Pressure, which my Rush bandmates and I had released in It took me a year or so to get around to reading Resurrection. Any inspiration from Rush's work seemed indirect, at best, but nonetheless, Kevin and I had much in common, not least a shared love since childhood for science fiction and fantasy stories.
We began to write to each other occasionally and, during Rush's Roll the Bones tour in , on a day off between concerts in California, I rode my bicycle from Sacramento to Kevin's home in Dublin, California. That was the beginning of a good friendship, many stimulating conversations mostly by letter and e-mail, as we lived far apart , and regular packages in the mail, as we shared our latest work with each other-the ultimate stimulating conversation.
In subsequent years I would send Kevin a few books of my own, numerous CDs and DVDs from my work with Rush, and there seemed to be a fat volume from Kevin arriving about every other month. Back in , though, Kevin was still working full-time as a technical writer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
He spent every spare minute working on his fiction, and though he would famously collect over rejection letters, there was no doubt in Kevin's mind about his destiny. Even as a child, Kevin didn't "want to be" a writer when he grew up; he was going to be a writer. And so he was. To date, Kevin has published over 80 novels, story collections, graphic novels, and comic books, and he still spends every minute being a writer.
Kevin doesn't write to live, he lives to write. He has even found ways to weave his recreation, relaxation, and desire for adventure and physical challenge into the writing process, carrying a microcassette recorder on long hikes throughout the West, including the ascent of each of Colorado's 54 "fourteeners," peaks over 14, feet.
