I know it’s been a while since a meaty post, but I’ve been busy working on interviews for a variety of websites and publications, which should start filtering out soon. I’ll announce it all here.
In the meantime, some reviews!
There’s a great, spoiler-free review of The Warded Man on the website for January Magazine.
Jessica Strider, Bookseller [...]
Bric-a-Brac
Paperback Writer
Even after seven months on the market, The Painted Man has continues to sell like gangbusters in the UK. Better than I ever dreamed.
Well, okay. That’s not entirely true. I’ve dreamed of it selling millions of copies and spawning a Harry Potter-style franchise that made me so incredibly wealthy I could buy a private island [...]
Made in Taiwan
As I mentioned the other day, The Painted Man (AKA The Warded Man) has advanced into new territory once more, this time selling Chinese translation and distribution rights to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao in record deals for JABberwocky and their Chinese associate agency, Grayhawk! The winning bidder was publisher Gaea Books, whom my Chinese [...]
Polish Reviews
Here’s a little something for my Polish readers, a compilation of some of the reviews of the Polish translation of The Painted Man, Malowany Czloweik, that I’ve found while browsing (that is, narcissistically googling myself on) the web.
Since I don’t speak Polish myself, I’ve had to rely on google’s translator, which is just godawful. Sometimes [...]
Start ‘Em Young
Some of you may recall that last year I promised to send a free copy of The Warded Man to one of my blog readers, Courtney, if she managed to deliver her first child on his due date of March 10, as this was also the Warded Man release date.
Well, due to some complications, Courtney’s [...]
The Lost Interview
I had forgotten all about this interview I did for Bragelonne, my French publisher, when I visited Paris for a day in September 2008 while I was in Europe promoting my UK book launch. It’s really a wonderful interview, but Bragelonne postponed publishing it online until closer to their release date. The Painted Man French [...]
The Clock is Ticking
As you may know, my book The Painted Man (AKA The Warded Man) has been nominated for the first-ever David Gemmell Legend award. The voting is free and open to everyone, and will be conducted in two stages. The first stage will take the longlist of several dozen nominees and narrow them down to 5 [...]
The Real Desert Spear
My buddy and fellow SF author Myke Cole (left) is serving his third tour in Iraq, and sent me this picture from Camp Deutsch in the Karkh district of Baghdad:
If the building behind him were made of human bones, it could be Sharik Hora…
Happiness Is…
When google alerts points me to things like this.
Lunacon Update
Had a good time at Lunacon this weekend. Since it was in nearby Rye Brook New York, I figured there wasn’t really a need to book a room in the hotel, and just day-tripped it on Friday and Saturday.
On Friday, my first panel was at 6PM, so my con wingman Jay Franco and I decided [...]