I’m not really sure when I first got the idea to write a book about a man who tattooed magical symbols on his skin, but when I first started work on the Painted Man, my friend Neil sent me an article about Otzi the Iceman. Otzi is the original Painted Man. He was a man […]
Eowyn and the Nazgul
“Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!” “Come not between the Nazgul and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shrivelled mind be left naked to […]
Self-Stalking, Part 1
So this will be a new recurring segment on the Peephole, where I secretly google myself late at night to see what I find, and then report back the results. Sometimes I will also point out funny traffic statistics of my website. For instance, did you know that some intrepid student at the University of […]
Library Card
I had some errands to run in the city yesterday, so as I am often wont to do, I stopped at the New York Public Library on 42nd & Fifth. I never borrow books, though. When you write fantasy novels, there is very little research that can’t be conducted on Wikipedia, and I have more […]
Old School, Part II
So I finally broke down and threw away the last of my cassettes. For those of you born after 1985, a cassette is a recording medium, like MP3 or AAC, but the information is contained in a long spool of magnetic tape instead of a digital data stream. Remember those CD’s you used to have […]