I notice Graeme Flory over at Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review is giving away 5 free signed 1st edition hardback copies of The Painted Man on his website. They may well be all gone by now, but it can’t hurt to check. Graeme wrote a great review of the book on his site a few weeks [...]
Konnichiwa
So my once-a-day posting streak is over. It was inevitable, of course. Even the most devoted blogger will fall off eventually. When you first start a blog, you write a few posts and it seems so easy that you can’t see any reason why you couldn’t do it every day. After all, you have SO [...]
I Give Up
I’ve been trying to think of something to blog about, but I’ve really got nothing to say tonight. Cassie had her first shots yesterday, and while she took them like a champ, she has been feverish and unpredictable for the last 36 hours or so. Not in a very creative state right not. I guess [...]
My Favorite Redhead
I’m actually doing “real” writing today, so no time for a formal blog post. Still, I don’t want to ruin my update streak, so here’s a picture of me and my favorite redhead to make the grandparents happy:
A Boy Goes On a Journey
If you’ve been reading regularly, you may recall a few days ago that I linked to a review of The Painted Man from an Australian SF site called A Boy Goes On A Journey, which has articles, book reviews, forums and community building for new and budding writers, and a lot more. Check it out.
The [...]
Intervention
I think I need an intervention.
I was told that a lot of new authors get addicted to checking their rating on Amazon, which you can find under “Product Details” on the book page, but I didn’t think it would happen to me.
Oh, who am I kidding? Of course I did. But even so, I didn’t [...]
Ward Cards & Temp Tattoos
As part of their early promotion for The Painted Man, Voyager had sets of temporary tattoos made, using the wards I had designed for the website, which are also being used on all the international editions of the book, as well as in other places. These were sent out, along with the promotional Advance Read Copies (ARCs) [...]
Podcast Update
Ugh. I’m running out of stuff to talk about, but I don’t want to break my longest daily blogging streak… maybe ever. So… uh, here’s a direct link to the interview I did with Grant Boyden on Sport 927am in Australia. You can tell how nervous I am being on the radio by counting the [...]
How’s Your French?
It’s been an interesting day.
Last week’s sales numbers are in, and show no decline from first week to second, which is fantastic. It technically means I did even better than the first week, since week #1’s total also included pre-orders that might have come months earlier. I was #15 on the UK SF bestseller list, [...]
Radio Podcast
As I mentioned yesterday, I did an interview with Grant Boyden at Sport 927am in Victoria, Australia this morning. Despite being a little nervous on live air and saying “um” and “uh” about a thousand times, I managed to get through the interview reasonably competently.
If you’re interested, you can find the interview as a podcast [...]