Haiku Review Contest

As mentioned the other day, Carrie Harris reviewed The Warded Man (AKA The Painted Man) as a Haiku, which I thought was pretty awesome, and gave me the idea for a fun contest. The rules are simple. Review the book in Haiku form (three lines, 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively) and post it in […]

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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture

I am pleased to report that I have on my desk a signed film option contract with a major Hollywood director for The Painted Man (AKA The Warded Man) and subsequent books in the franchise. Said director has asked to not be mentioned by name until midsummer when he is finished packaging his latest blockbuster, […]

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BEA and Suvudu Chat

First off, there is a great new review of The Painted Man on SFFWorld. I will be doing a live chat on June 4 at 2PM EST on the Del Rey mega-blog Suvudu with (Red Wolf Conspiracy) author Robert Redick, moderated by Robert’s editor, Kaitlin Heller (details here). You can send in questions for Robert […]

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Reinvention

I stopped writing in college. At least, I stopped writing novels. I had written my first novel in high school, and knew then that even though the book itself was awful, writing novels was my bliss. However, writing novels requires a great commitment of time and effort. Not so great, perhaps, when I was in […]

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Too Soon To Tell

Does this mean she loves books or hates them? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oOFIsQP2gU UPDATE: For some inexplicable reason, the embedded video window was crashing Internet Explorer for users, so I have replaced it with a hyperlink until I figure out how to fix it. In the meantime, IE sucks. Consider Firefox.

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