Just a quick Danke! to the Austrian Tolkien Society (translated into English here) for sending me a copy of their newsletter, Halifirien, which contains an eight-page feature on my work, including a short interview I did with frequent Peephole commenter (and DSAC winner) Elisa Jimenez. Special thanks to Nessa Glasser for the feature article, and […]
Homemade Hero Contest Winners
Sorry to keep everyone waiting with this post. This was a hard one. There were so many wonderful entries in the Homemade Heroes Contest, and all were obviously made with such love and attention that it was heartbreaking to think that not everyone could win. I think that’s why I took my time with the […]
Vote Early, and Tell a Friend!
Exciting news! Das Flüstern der Nacht (the German translation of The Desert Spear) is in the running on the German book lovers’ site LovelyBooks for their “Der Leserpreis – die besten Buecher 2010” award! It made it to the Shortlist in the category “Fantasie/Science Fiction”, in which I am competing with 35 other books. I’m […]
Autotranslate Awesomeness and Fan Art
Mom, don’t read this. Ah, the interwebs. Today I witnessed a lovely clash between twitter and google translate. My french publisher (@BragelonneFR) twittered this: @PVBrett fout le bazar : http://bit.ly/eYQ586 | Encore un petit bijou en perspective ! Now I know a little French. VERY little. I get the gist of what this says, but […]
French Made Heroes
Usually, I laud the awesomeness of my readers before showing you their entry, but sometimes, when the reader is as awesome as French Jess, there is nothing I can add that competes with her own words and pictures. You will see therein that her boyfriend is awesome, too. This is good. I wouldn’t want her […]