Local Flavor

My story last week in AM New York seems to have been picked up around town here in Brooklyn. Apparently I’m not the only person in a love-hate abusive relationship with the F train. While we’re on the topic, you know what I hate about the F train? That Fort Hamilton Parkway is a goddamn […]

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Interview, Reviews, and Awards

My friend Netta is a freelance editor who runs a website called wordwebbing, where she discusses writing, editing, and the the publishing industry in general. Netta was also one of the original test-readers of The Painted/Warded Man, before I even had an agent. Netta is great. Recently, she sent me an interview for her site, […]

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69, Dude!

No, not that 69. Get your mind out of the gutter. I did an interview last week for The Page 69 Test, a site that asks the question of whether page 69 of The Warded Man is representative of the book as a whole, and whether a browser reading the page would be tempted to […]

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Bric-a-Brac

I know it’s been a while since a meaty post, but I’ve been busy working on interviews for a variety of websites and publications, which should start filtering out soon. I’ll announce it all here. In the meantime, some reviews! There’s a great, spoiler-free review of The Warded Man on the website for January Magazine. […]

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Made in Taiwan

As I mentioned the other day, The Painted Man (AKA The Warded Man) has advanced into new territory once more, this time selling Chinese translation and distribution rights to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao in record deals for JABberwocky and their Chinese associate agency, Grayhawk! The winning bidder was publisher Gaea Books, whom my Chinese […]

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