Things That Scare Me, Pt 1: Puppet Strings

Fear is a major theme in The Warded Man. In the story, the entire human race is crippled by blind fear and by it kept from their full potential. I write about fear because it’s something I deal with every day, and I bet a lot of other folks do, too. So I am going […]

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El Hombre Marcado

I am pleased to present the latest member of the Painted Man family: El Hombre Marcado! The book will be released May 26, 2009 from Timun Mas y Minotauro in Spain and some other Spanish markets (which I am pretty sure includes Mexico). Psyched!

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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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AM NY, I-Con, and a Flat

Observant New Yorkers with a penchant for free newspapers may have noticed the article on page 18 of AM New York yesterday, entitled ‘Warded Man’ author Peter V. Brett writes novel on the F(antasy) train. Sorry for not posting something about it in time for anyone to grab hardcopy. I did the interview a couple […]

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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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