Perils of Autotranslate

Continuing my ongoing coverage of events in Deutschland, I’d like to announce that the German website Booksection.de has just posted their translation of an interview I sent them last week. In my last post I included links to google translate versions of all the other German posts out there about me. Of course, I did […]

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Sing Mir Das Lied Der Dunkelheit

When I sold The Warded Man in the US, it was something of a shock, but it had been my goal all along, so at least it was intentional. The same goes, to a lesser extent, for the UK sale. What I didn’t expect was that publishers around the world would want to buy the […]

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Pre-Order The Great Bazaar!

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Subterranean Press is producing a book of short stories set in the world of The Warded Man entitled The Great Bazaar, and Other Stories. The book will publish in January 2010, but it is already available for pre-order, and will be released well before The Desert Spear […]

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Everyone Loves Saga

One of the amazing things about storytelling is that no matter how hard the author tries to make a statement or express an opinion, the audience will still look at it through their own perspective, and no two people see things exactly the same. This is a challenge for writers that can be frustrating, but […]

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Interrobang Redux?!

Sometimes, when people disagree, we shout at one another, as shown writing by an exclamation point (!). Sometimes, we ask each other questions, denoted by a question mark (?). Sometimes we do both at once, and aren’t sure which piece of punctuation to use. This is especially true when the question is rhetorical. The accepted […]

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