My friend Netta is a freelance editor who runs a website called wordwebbing, where she discusses writing, editing, and the the publishing industry in general. Netta was also one of the original test-readers of The Painted/Warded Man, before I even had an agent. Netta is great. Recently, she sent me an interview for her site, […]
Packrat Love
The other day a friend of my was telling me that he was contemplating a big move, leaving the city that’s been his home for over a decade and returning to the town he came from. During the discussion, he told that if he goes through with it, he intends to take the opportunity to […]
AM NY, I-Con, and a Flat
Observant New Yorkers with a penchant for free newspapers may have noticed the article on page 18 of AM New York yesterday, entitled ‘Warded Man’ author Peter V. Brett writes novel on the F(antasy) train. Sorry for not posting something about it in time for anyone to grab hardcopy. I did the interview a couple […]
69, Dude!
No, not that 69. Get your mind out of the gutter. I did an interview last week for The Page 69 Test, a site that asks the question of whether page 69 of The Warded Man is representative of the book as a whole, and whether a browser reading the page would be tempted to […]
B-b-b-bestseller
The word still kind of sticks on my tongue in the way things do when you are afraid that giving voice to them will be a jinx and make them untrue, but after making the bookscan bestseller lists for hardback fantasy in both the UK & US, I suppose the term is apt. My agent […]