As many of you know, I will be flying out this Wednesday night to England, which I am told is both merry and old. I was excited about this trip to begin with, but after making the London Times Bestseller List two weeks in a row (#’s 9 & 15, respectively), my excitement has increased […]
London Times!
A little photo journey through this morning’s London Times: Words fail to express what this means to me. I spent 3.5 years and literally thousands of hours suffering over The Desert Spear. There were many times I thought it was impossible to get the book I envisioned down on paper, and I did much of […]
Number 9… Number 9… Number 9….
Holy crap, is there a lot going on these days! It’s been pretty overwhelming. For starters, I had not anticipated just how high the demand would be for bookplates. There’s still plenty left, but I expect they’ll all be gone by the time The Desert Spear launches on April 13, so if you want one, […]
UK Adventures pt. 2: English Country Walk
For more than ten years now, whenever I visit the UK, I go for a romp in the country with my college-buddy Dave, who majored in cartography. At a time when most college boys adorned their dorm walls with posters of scantily-clad women and Absolut ads, Dave’s walls were covered with maps, and he used […]
UK Adventures pt. 1: Forbidden Planet & Goldsboro Signings, April 16
As I’ve mentioned before, I will be visiting the UK next month (April 15 – 21) to promote the British release of The Desert Spear (April 1, 2010; Voyager Books). It’s a short trip mostly centered around the London Book Fair, but I will be doing some other fun stuff while I am in town, […]