Aidan Moher asked me for an excerpt from The Desert Spear to post on his SF blog A Dribble of Ink sometime in March. I agreed and took my personal reference ARC to leaf through, looking for something cool to lift out that didn’t have any spoilers. An hour later, I realize all I’ve done […]
Treasure in the Mail
The postal service has been good to me this week. One of the things about being an author that I’m still coming to terms with is all the awesome books I get for free, often in advance of their on-sale dates. Some of these are my own work, and that’s to be expected, but my […]
Book Review: The Blade Itself
Bias disclosure: I have no relationship with Joe Abercrombie or his publisher. Never met the guy and haven’t read any of his other work. I picked up this book in part on the recommendations of friends, but partly because Abercrombie is, in the vernacular of The Blade Itself, a Named Man. Online, his name is […]
A Note on Book Reviews
I don’t review many books on the Peephole these days. Part of that is a kind of professional awkwardness. When I was blogging in obscurity, I could say whatever I wanted about a book. Say it fucking sucked, speak ill of the author’s mother, whatever. Alternately, I could gush about how awesome it was like […]
Polish Fan Art
Sometimes my readers are so awesome I can’t stand it. I’ll be sitting in my office, chipping away at the mountain of one novel or another, feeling alone and unloved, when suddenly my e-mail will chime and someone, often from the other side of the planet, will tell me how my work has touched them. […]