O Homem Pintado

As you can see, the cover art for the Portuguese translation of The Painted Man, O Homen Pintado, has been finalized. I think it’s pretty badass, and it’s the first PM cover to contain spears and a warded shield, which are very significant items in the series. (You may have noticed that there wasn’t a […]

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Casting Contest Update

Big thanks to Matt Bergin for taking over the Peephole for the Casting Call guest post. I want him to illustrate my blog more often. His picture was extremely accurate, except he put the painting of Arlen where my office window is. The window that faces a friggin’ daycare center full of screaming kids that […]

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Desert Spear Excision: Rojer’s Mummery

I’ve just made a new addition to the Excisions page, a deleted scene from The Desert Spear entitled Rojer’s Mummery. Normally I would wait until the book was published to print deleted scenes, but this one is spoiler-free and involves characters from the first book, so I thought it would be a fun thing to […]

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My Precious

So a couple of weeks ago, I was pulling all-nighters every day while working on the second draft of The Desert Spear. I was essentially working till 4am every night, sleeping until the baby woke me up between 6-7, and then going back to sleep until about 10. One morning I hauled myself out of […]

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Cover Assignment

Hi all. Sorry there’s been nothing to see in the Peephole lately. I promise to correct that starting now. I actually have some great things to post, but I’ve been pulling all-nighters for about two weeks straight to finish the Desert Spear rewrite (done, as of 3am last night!) and have neglected just about everything […]

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