Fabryka Slow, my Polish publisher, is launching Malowany Czlowiek, AKA The Painted Man, this Friday, November 28. As if I didn’t have enough things to be thankful for this year. It’s a little weird, having the book come out all over the world, in foreign languages even, while I am still waiting for it to […]
Desert Spear UK Cover Art
You may have seen my post a while ago about the mock-up for the cover of The Desert Spear, which is the sequel to The Painted Man. I showed the production rough that was being sent to artist extraordinaire Larry Rostant, who did the first cover, who then hired a model and did the actual […]
Tattooed Samurai
My morning google alert has informed me that the second volume of the Japanese translation of The Painted Man is going on sale November 21! Because Japanese writing takes up more space than English, it is common to split a long novel into smaller parts in the Japanese market. The Painted Man, for example, has […]
World Fantasy 2009: Calgary
So the flight to Calgary was at 7:55am on Thursday. Being the anal-retentive American traveler that I am, I decided to leave my apartment at 5am to make sure I had plenty of time to deal with airport BS. It’s a good thing I did, but not due to any airline problems, believe it or […]
A Call to Arms
A month or so ago, one of my readers was kind enough to create a Wikipedia page for The Painted Man. The article is a stub however, and will be deleted soon if some other user does not help to expand it. I would do it myself, but I feel that it would be inappropriate […]