It’s getting to be about that time!
No, not Lent. Better. It’s time for Desert Spear reviews to start popping up!
The first comes from the blog SFF Chat. You may recall that blog editor Simcha won a copy in the Desert Spear ARC Contest by risking life and limb walking a metal beam over a deep [...]
Desert Spear Review at SFF Chat
I Know I’m Biased, But…
Aidan Moher asked me for an excerpt from The Desert Spear to post on his SF blog A Dribble of Ink sometime in March. I agreed and took my personal reference ARC to leaf through, looking for something cool to lift out that didn’t have any spoilers.
An hour later, I realize all I’ve done is [...]
A Note on Book Reviews
I don’t review many books on the Peephole these days. Part of that is a kind of professional awkwardness. When I was blogging in obscurity, I could say whatever I wanted about a book. Say it fucking sucked, speak ill of the author’s mother, whatever. Alternately, I could gush about how awesome it was like [...]
Polish Fan Art
Sometimes my readers are so awesome I can’t stand it. I’ll be sitting in my office, chipping away at the mountain of one novel or another, feeling alone and unloved, when suddenly my e-mail will chime and someone, often from the other side of the planet, will tell me how my work has touched them. [...]
Patrick Rothfuss Interview (and another way to win a Desert Spear ARC)
A few months ago, Patrick Rothfuss, author of the internationally bestselling epic fantasy novel The Name of the Wind and all-around nice guy, asked me if I would be interested in doing an interview on his blog.
Of course I said yes. To date, I have never turned down an interview request, but this one was [...]
Fun with Brent, Blake and Gail
You may recall that I took a ton of funny videos at the World Fantasy Convention this past October, and never posted them. My bad. In part it is because I came down with a flu son after, and then came my trip to Toronto, and then the holidays, and then Dani had the flu, [...]
Books Read in 2009
A lot of bloggers are making end-of-year lists of books they read in 2009. They’re not hard to find, but here are some particularly awesome ones (because they mention yours truly, natch):
Fantasy Book Critic
Robots and Vamps
A Dribble of Ink
Walker of Worlds
Fanlit
The end-of-year roundup is something I’ve occasionally done on the Peephole, and since I’m [...]
Holiday Cheer, DSAC Style
Looks like I opened up a can of worms yesterday by responding to a reader review on Amazon. You can get the story over on Grasping for the Wind.
But it’s Christmas, and my loving readers have been more than willing to spread me some sweet holiday cheer with new DSAC entries from women I adore. [...]
Fantasy for Breakfast
I’ll get to the Fan Art Contest in a minute. Honest. In the meantime, I wanted to post this fun thing google alerts showed me, a French fantasy review blog called Fantasy au Petit-Dejuner, AKA Fantasy for Breakfast. The reviewer films short videos of his review, showing the books next to his brekkie. He is [...]
Merci Beaucoup
Probably one of the most gratifying things about being a writer is seeing how one’s work inspires other people, either creatively or in their daily lives. There is no author I know that doesn’t love reading their fan mail, and who doesn’t have some prized letter or gift displayed in their office that came in [...]