The Painted Man has had some hard days. In addition to having a Creator who is abominably slow at writing and painstakingly anal about revisions, he’s lived a life plauged with demons, both inside and out. He’s given up a lot in his never-ending battle against the corelings, so it’s nice sometimes when the universe […]
Free Realms Plug
Think it’s weird that I’ve made no posts for a week and then do two back to back? Suck it. That’s how we Bretts roll. Just ask Cassie: So anyway, I get home from WFC, exhausted from 15 hours of travel, and find an e-mail in my inbox from John Smedley. In case you don’t […]
World Fantasy 2009: Calgary
So the flight to Calgary was at 7:55am on Thursday. Being the anal-retentive American traveler that I am, I decided to leave my apartment at 5am to make sure I had plenty of time to deal with airport BS. It’s a good thing I did, but not due to any airline problems, believe it or […]
A Call to Arms
A month or so ago, one of my readers was kind enough to create a Wikipedia page for The Painted Man. The article is a stub however, and will be deleted soon if some other user does not help to expand it. I would do it myself, but I feel that it would be inappropriate […]
World Fantasy
I know there’s at least three of you hot to read my next Writing to Sell post, but it’s been a busy week with work and house guests, and tomorrow I am off to Canada for the World Fantasy Convention in majestic Calgary. (Er… is Calgary majestic? I assume so, because they held the Olympics […]