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Exciting news from the Netherlands! Amsterdam-based Dutch publisher Mynx has purchased translation and publishing rights to The Warded Man!

I am totally psyched about this edition, and I pray that it will come with an excuse to someday visit Amsterdam, which is on my travel wishlist, even though they put mayonaise on their french fries.

Also, lots of reviews have been piling up while I’ve been working on other things. Here’s a quick update:

A review of The Warded Man, along with an interview I did recently, will appear in the June 2009 issue of Skive magazine which also includes 160 pages of stories, articles and poetry.

The printed book will be out 1st June, but the proprietor tells me anyone from my Facebook group can buy the Ebook early for $3.00 if they so wish (RRP is $5.00).

Also, a great Warded Man review in the Miami Herald from a couple of days ago, and on Sign on San Diego. The guys at the Smote blog made The Painted Man their May book of the month, and each posted reviews you can see here.

I also really enjoyed this review by the Drunken Scholar and this one by Lauren on Book Blogs.  Found several reviews on Shelfari, too, and a good one on SF Reader.

A longer, but more mixed, review can be found on Eilis O’Neal’s blog. Can’t thrill everyone, I guess.

Posted on May 13, 2009 at 2:19 pm by PeatB
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Another interview, this one for the mobile tech mega-blog Boy Genius Report. The interview is more tech heavy than the usual fare, describing in detail my experiences writing with mobile devices. It was a nice reflection on how far mobile tech has come as a writing aid in the last 6 years or so.

Also in the news, The Warded Man is the May book of the month on the web forum of Brent Weeks (author of the NY Times Bestselling Night Angel Trilogy). Brent is a really nice guy who got in touch with me shortly before TWM came out here in the US, expressing his excitement to read it. Neither of us have many writer friends, it seems, and we spent a long time discussing the writing process and telling our publishing war stories on the phone and on facebook.

Brent liked TWM so much he wrote a great review on Amazon, and made it his May book of the month. Discussion has already started, and I will be answering questions for the forum sometime in the next week or so. I encourage everyone to sign up on Brent’s forum to join in, and to give The Way of Shadows, the first book in Brent’s international bestselling series, a try. The entire series was published in 2008, so no waiting for the next book!

Lots more going on, but I’m taking things one blog at a time…

Posted on May 10, 2009 at 10:40 pm by PeatB
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Just saw on amazon.de that they already have a cover up for what I assume is The Desert Spear, which will be called Das Flustern der Nacht (The Whisper of the Night). I think the cover is pretty darn cool:

Posted on May 9, 2009 at 7:26 pm by PeatB
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Posted a new Excision just now, entitled Reclaiming the Circle. It shows what happened when the Painted Man and Rojer go to take back the circle and horse from the bandits.

It’s a short scene, only about 380 words, but it offers up the opportunity to talk about POV philosophy in the introduction and discussion, which is a topic I enjoy pondering and pontificating on.

As always, feel free to direct any comments on the scene and/or discussion here, since I still don’t know how to enable comments on a static page because WordPress hates me and wants me to suffer.

Posted on May 7, 2009 at 12:27 am by PeatB
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New interview up, this one on the computer gaming blog Grinding to Valhalla. Some of it is the same old same old (though I never cut and paste answers, so they’re always a little different, depending on my mood and level of introspection at the time of writing), but there are also some interesting questions about the writing process and gaming that are worth reading, if you’re into that sort of things.

In other news, you may have noticed some changes to the site, particularly on the News, Creations, and Excisions pages. I have just leveled up in my web-coding skills, and am making an effort to bring these pages more up to date. It’s an ongoing process, of course, but you can expect more changes in a steady trickle as I add fan art, foreign edition covers, downloadable versions of all the wards, etc.

Frequently, readers e-mail me telling me that they gave up sleep to finish the book, or they were so engrossed they missed their stop on the bus/train, or snuck into the bathroom at work to read. All those sacrifices are incredibly gratifying, but this recent Amazon reviewer takes the cake.

Dude, I appreciate the compliment, but the book ain’t that good.

Also, good Warded Man reviews on Buzzy Multimedia, SFF Chronicles, the All Consuming blog and Edward Willett‘s site, an okay review on from a guy who hated the UK cover (madness) on his blog Smote, and the Disillusioned Librarian gives a solid thumbs-up after a brief digression on Swine Flu.

And a bit more on the “cellphone writer” thing, which seems to be dying down in favor of a new flavor of the week. This one has a giant thumb, and this one is mostly about my thoughts on the Kindle.

Posted on May 5, 2009 at 10:07 pm by PeatB
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