London Trip, Days 1-3

 Flew in to London overnight on Thursday, leavin NYC at 6:10pm, and arriving at Heathrow airport in London at 6:30am Friday. I REALLY should have slept on the plane, but it was British Airways, and the attendant kept plying me with mini bottles of delicious red wine, and there was an individual TV screen at every seat […]

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London Book Signing

The days are growing short before my big London trip, and I am having difficulty containing my excitement. Every day seems to bring a new teaser tidbit to keep me psyched, like the spanking new hardcover and trade paperback copies of the book that Voyager sent me a couple of days ago (pictured above, along […]

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Breaking Archetypes

I’ve recently started reading Robin Hobb’s Farseer trilogy. I finished Assassin’s Apprentice the other night, and I’m about 100 pages into Royal Assassin. I picked up the series mainly because a lot of people, including my UK editor, have compared my work to Hobb’s, particularly in terms of character development. A few even suggested I […]

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Del Rey Interview

I found this online today; it’s the interview I gave to Del Rey books, which they included in their advance read edition of The Warded Man. I didn’t want to post it myself in case they wanted it exclusively in the ARE, but apparently they didn’t, because I know this site didn’t get the text […]

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College Reading Level

Little Luca (the palooka) D’Entrone is a boy genius. At three months, he’s already said his first word, and he’s reading on a college level.

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