There is a school of thought that says illustrations are bad for written stories. That the purpose of reading is to exercise your own imagination, creating visuals in your mind’s eye. Proponents of this school will often turn their noses up at any illustrated text as if it were not “true” literature. They will say […]
Interview City
I hit something of a snag while writing The Desert Spear last week. It wasn’t writer’s block, because that is a myth and an excuse. It was more… writer’s clog. I reached the climax of the storyline for two and a half of the the book’s 6 main POV characters, and realized that the scene […]
Amazon.de
So guess what I found on Amazon Germany today? That’s right, Das Lied der Dunkelheit, AKA Song of the Darkness, AKA The Painted Man, AKA The Warded Man, AKA Malowany Czloweik. It’s up for pre-order on Amazon.de. Sweet. In addition to the glee I generally feel as seeing my book up for sale somewhere, I […]
Das Lied der Dunkelheit
Oooh! Is that another cover? Yes it is! According to bookseller website Libri.de, it looks like my German publisher, Heyne, will be publishing their translation of The Painted Man in May 2009, right on the heels of the UK paperback and the US hardcover. Once again, all I have is a tiny thumbnail of the […]
Writing to Sell, Part II
As I said in my last post on this topic, Robert Jordan once told me to only write what I wanted, and to ignore what fans and patrons wanted from me. With all due respect to a giant of fantasy literature whom I admire greatly, Mr. Jordan was wrong. On the other hand, some of […]