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This morning I woke up to another teaser entry to the Homemade Heroes Contest, this from Lood in South Africa, who promises to send his official entry soon. If it’s anything like the teaser, It will be awesome.

Hi there,

So on Sunday (10 October) my good friend Dave from DaveBrendon’s Fantasy and SciFi Weblog had his birthday so naturally we had to have a party on Saturday night. I was kind of stumped on what to get the man for his birthday, so I decided I’d bake him a warded cake. One Mexican chocolate cake with fudge toffee icing and a couple of Warhammer Woodelf figurines later I had this:

The Warded Cake. I took the ward designs from your website and adapted them to be icing friendly. Even if I have to say so myself, I was quite pleased with the final result.

I decided on a battle between The Painted Man and a couple of wood demons set in the interlude period in the first book.

With wood demons bearing down on him…

And I added a couple of minor touches:

(The warded stones are  a personal favourite of mine.)

Add a couple of lesser demon onlookers:

I would have included shots from at the party, but unfortunately the ward circle around the cake was broken by a rogue cake knife and the party demons (and a couple of lesser cake demons) got to it before I had my camera ready. The diorama did not survive for too long after that, but the memory of it will live on forever.

Needless to say, Dave loved it.

Regards,
Lood
Pretoria, South-Africa

Posted on October 13, 2010 at 11:53 am by PeatB
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Take my buddy Myke, for example, who came up to visit for ComicCon. He just e-mailed me the first entry in the Homemade Heroes Contest:

—–Original Message—–
From: Myke
To: Peat Brett
Sent: Mon, Oct 11, 2010 11:59 am
Subject: Homegrown hero for your contest

It’s apple core Jardir: note the tostito shield, fork spear, corn cob helmet and sugar packet veil.

The hot sauce is demon ichor.

Quarter is provided for scale/perspective.

If this doesn’t win, I’ll eat my hat.

Semper Paratus,

Myke

Since I am hoping to have the first prize winner’s entry sitting on my desk, I don’t think this one will last, as it will soon be covered in flies, but there’s nothing stopping YOU from winning! Enter by Thanksgiving for a chance to win one of the great prizes. Rules here.

Posted on October 11, 2010 at 12:27 pm by PeatB
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As I mentioned in my last entry, I was on a panel at New York ComicCon on Friday night with some big names in Fantasy: Jim Butcher, Joe Abercrombie, Naomi Novik, & Brandon Sanderson, as well as debut author Deborah Harkness.

Tor.com did an article about the panel on their blog, including a somewhat spotty transcript. They got most of what was said, but occasionally attributed things to the wrong people. I am quoted as saying a couple of things I didn’t actually say, but whatever. It’s a pretty good article and it really gives the feel of the panel.

But if the feel isn’t enough for you, watch it yourself, thanks to SUVUDU, the Del Rey mega-blog, who graciously recorded and posted the video:

NYCC Panel Video: Fantasy Authors from Suvudu on Vimeo.

NYCC Panel Video: Fantasy Authors Part II from Suvudu on Vimeo.

I did several other interviews while at the convention, and will be posting links to those, as well as pictures from my signings and the like, over the next few days.

Posted on October 11, 2010 at 1:22 am by PeatB
Filed under Appearances, Craft, Events, Fans, Interviews, Writing
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Had an awesome time at NY ComicCon today. Did a babbling video interview with SUVUDU (sorry about the awful sound, we picked up a lot of background noise at the con):

NYCC Video Interview: Peter V. Brett from Suvudu on Vimeo.

After that, I wandered the con floor till I got museum feet, and then was on an awesome packed-room panel with Jim Butcher, Joe Abercrombie, Naomi Novik, Brandon Sanderson, and debut author Deborah Harkness. With all the heavy hitters onstage (me being the least of them), there were people standing in the aisles and literally dozens of people who couldn’t fit in the room.

Needless to say I was scared shitless, but I think I acquitted myself well. Random House recorded the panel, so I will soon have a video link to share with everyone. It was pretty amiable, as you can see:

But then, we went to a bar, and things between me and Joe got a little ugly…

Tomorrow (Saturday) I have a signing at the Random House booth (#2223) from 3-4, and on Sunday from 11-12. Both signings will have free paperback copies of The Warded Man for fans, and they will be selling Desert Spear hardbacks. Come one, come all!

Posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:14 pm by PeatB
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I hope it’s nice:

Posted on October 7, 2010 at 2:03 pm by PeatB
Filed under Fans, Germany, Reviews, Warded Man
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