Please excuse any awkward formatting on this post. I’m doing it from my phone. At the airport now, heading off with Maxim-stylish wingman Matt Bergin to Toronto to the set of Resident Evil 4 (in 3D), which is being directed by the eminent Paul WS Anderson and produced by the awesomely last-named Jeremy Bolt, the […]
World Fantasy 2009, Part 2
As I mentioned in the first WFC post, one of the best things about the convention is meeting virtual friends and coworkers in person, often for the first time. Sometimes when you don’t even expect it. Back in 2004, I started a small blog on a site called Journalscape. It started mostly a platform for […]
Merci Beaucoup
Probably one of the most gratifying things about being a writer is seeing how one’s work inspires other people, either creatively or in their daily lives. There is no author I know that doesn’t love reading their fan mail, and who doesn’t have some prized letter or gift displayed in their office that came in […]
More Portuguese Awesomeness
The Portuguese translation of The Painted Man, O Homem Pintado, is publishing on October 20. My last post showed the video trailer my Portuguese publisher, Gailivro, made, a live action bit of video to rival Fabryka Slow’s video trailer in sheer awesomeness. Also, someone translated the Gailivro promo video and posted it to YouTube. As […]
Jinxed
Apologies to my mom for all the cursing in this entry, but it’s been an interesting week. Sunday was the Brooklyn Book Festival, which was pretty fun. The weather was perfect, and the festival drew a sizable crowd. There were kids activities and cool swag and semi-celebrities like that guy who played Vizzini and Grand […]