Intervention

I think I need an intervention. I was told that a lot of new authors get addicted to checking their rating on Amazon, which you can find under “Product Details” on the book page, but I didn’t think it would happen to me. Oh, who am I kidding? Of course I did. But even so, […]

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Ward Cards & Temp Tattoos

As part of their early promotion for The Painted Man, Voyager had sets of temporary tattoos made, using the wards I had designed for the website, which are also being used on all the international editions of the book, as well as in other places. These were sent out, along with the promotional Advance Read Copies (ARCs) […]

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Podcast Update

Ugh. I’m running out of stuff to talk about, but I don’t want to break my longest daily blogging streak… maybe ever. So… uh, here’s a direct link to the interview I did with Grant Boyden on Sport 927am in Australia. You can tell how nervous I am being on the radio by counting the […]

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How’s Your French?

It’s been an interesting day. Last week’s sales numbers are in, and show no decline from first week to second, which is fantastic. It technically means I did even better than the first week, since week #1’s total also included pre-orders that might  have come months earlier. I was #15 on the UK SF bestseller […]

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Radio Podcast

As I mentioned yesterday, I did an interview with Grant Boyden at Sport 927am in Victoria, Australia this morning. Despite being a little nervous on live air and saying “um” and “uh” about a thousand times, I managed to get through the interview reasonably competently. If you’re interested, you can find the interview as a […]

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