Quick reminder to everyone, voting for the David Gemmell Legend Award is now open. It’s free and quick to vote, and I encourage everyone who enjoyed The Painted Man/The Warded Man to take the time to visit the site.
This is the first year of the award, and the first and only award (for anything) I [...]
Get Out the Vote!
Quick Read
Got a comment on my blog today from a reader who got my book for Christmas, and stayed up all night reading it, finishing around 4:35am.
This is something I hear a lot from readers, and it makes me feel fantastic, because I feel like I did my job. I’ve been a fantasy reader all my [...]
I Have Fans
So get this. A fan from Poland saw my blog entry on the Polish art and commented that there were other pictures I didn’t put up. When I commented back that I didn’t even know there WERE other pictures, he scanned and sent them to me!
So, to sum up:
I have fans.
Some of them are in [...]
Odds and Ends
I was very pleased this morning to discover that after a steady decline during its weeks between selling out and going back on press for a second printing, The Painted Man is back in Amazon.co.uk’s Fantasy Bestseller List (currently at #19). Just in time for Christmas!
In other news, Jana and Kris, the folks over at [...]
Polish Art
There is a school of thought that says illustrations are bad for written stories. That the purpose of reading is to exercise your own imagination, creating visuals in your mind’s eye. Proponents of this school will often turn their noses up at any illustrated text as if it were not “true” literature. They will say [...]
Christmas Miracle
Apologies for the shameless plug, but one of the depressing things about The Painted Man being out of stock was the message on Amazon.co.uk saying “This book will not be delivered in time for Christmas.” That really stung.
But no more! Now that we’re back in stock, Amazon has changed that painful message to the much [...]
Interview City
I hit something of a snag while writing The Desert Spear last week. It wasn’t writer’s block, because that is a myth and an excuse. It was more… writer’s clog. I reached the climax of the storyline for two and a half of the the book’s 6 main POV characters, and realized that the scene [...]
Back in Print, Baby!
Sometimes in life, you have mixed feelings. A good example from my own life is the day my daughter was born. It was, in many ways, both the best and worst day of my life. I say worst, because I was frantic, and terrified, and hadn’t slept, and there were complications that scared the Core [...]
Amazon.de
So guess what I found on Amazon Germany today?
That’s right, Das Lied der Dunkelheit, AKA Song of the Darkness, AKA The Painted Man, AKA The Warded Man, AKA Malowany Czloweik. It’s up for pre-order on Amazon.de. Sweet.
In addition to the glee I generally feel as seeing my book up for sale somewhere, I was very [...]
Total Sci Fi
Fantastic review on Total Sci Fi today. Helps to wash yesterday’s bile from my mouth.
Work on Desert Spear has slowed a bit this week as I work out a plot snag and dig myself out of other projects that have piled up. I should wrap up the story arcs for 3 of the 6 POV [...]