Konnichiwa

So my once-a-day posting streak is over. It was inevitable, of course. Even the most devoted blogger will fall off eventually. When you first start a blog, you write a few posts and it seems so easy that you can’t see any reason why you couldn’t do it every day. After all, you have SO […]

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A Boy Goes On a Journey

If you’ve been reading regularly, you may recall a few days ago that I linked to a review of The Painted Man from an Australian SF site called A Boy Goes On A Journey, which has articles, book reviews, forums and community building for new and budding writers, and a lot more. Check it out. […]

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Intervention

I think I need an intervention. I was told that a lot of new authors get addicted to checking their rating on Amazon, which you can find under “Product Details” on the book page, but I didn’t think it would happen to me. Oh, who am I kidding? Of course I did. But even so, […]

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Ward Cards & Temp Tattoos

As part of their early promotion for The Painted Man, Voyager had sets of temporary tattoos made, using the wards I had designed for the website, which are also being used on all the international editions of the book, as well as in other places. These were sent out, along with the promotional Advance Read Copies (ARCs) […]

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Podcast Update

Ugh. I’m running out of stuff to talk about, but I don’t want to break my longest daily blogging streak… maybe ever. So… uh, here’s a direct link to the interview I did with Grant Boyden on Sport 927am in Australia. You can tell how nervous I am being on the radio by counting the […]

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