The Hits Keep on Coming

The paperback of The Painted Man continues to sell up a storm in the UK, still kicking ass on the Amazon bestseller list as it enters into its THIRD printing.
Meanwhile, the German translation, Das Lied der Dunkelheit, has sold tens of thousands of copies in the three months its been out, surpassing any other market, [...]

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100 x 100

I’ve now spent 100 days in the Amazon UK top 100 fiction books. Whoot!

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Cassie: Year 1

Time flies when you’re sleep-deprived…

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You Know What You Need To Do

SF Signal is having a Book Cover Smackdown between The Great Bazaar (with its awesome Lauren Cannon cover) and some other books whose covers aren’t nearly as good. For some bizarre reason, though, voting seems to be going against us.
If you’ve got a minute to spare, head on over and let them know why the [...]

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Amateur Filmmaker

Note: The embedded YouTube windows were causing people with older versions of Internet Explorer to experience problems viewing the page, so I have removed them and replaced them with the links below.
Amateur filmmaker # 1
Amateur filmmaker #2
Amateur filmmaker #3

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Perils of Autotranslate

Continuing my ongoing coverage of events in Deutschland, I’d like to announce that the German website Booksection.de has just posted their translation of an interview I sent them last week.
In my last post I included links to google translate versions of all the other German posts out there about me. Of course, I did this [...]

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Sing Mir Das Lied Der Dunkelheit

When I sold The Warded Man in the US, it was something of a shock, but it had been my goal all along, so at least it was intentional. The same goes, to a lesser extent, for the UK sale. What I didn’t expect was that publishers around the world would want to buy the [...]

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Pre-Order The Great Bazaar!

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Subterranean Press is producing a book of short stories set in the world of The Warded Man entitled The Great Bazaar, and Other Stories. The book will publish in January 2010, but it is already available for pre-order, and will be released well before The Desert Spear [...]

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Busy, busy

Desperately trying to make my Desert Spear editing deadline (along with a dozen other projects), so no time for a real update.
Here’s a funny picture of me, instead:

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We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Blogging…

Whatever your personal politics, it’s hard to argue with a man who addresses you like an adult and talks sense in plain language.

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