Polish Fan Art
Sometimes my readers are so awesome I can’t stand it. I’ll be sitting in my office, chipping away at the mountain of one novel or another, feeling alone and unloved, when suddenly my e-mail will chime and someone, often from the other side of the planet, will tell me how my work has touched them. Sometimes they send presents. Take this e-mail I received a few hours ago from Maciej in Poland:
Dear Mr. Brett,
My name is Maciej and I’m the one of your fans in Poland. I want you to know, that “Painted Man” is a really great book for me and I just can’t wait for “Desert Spear”. Your Polish publishing house has done a great job with the translation and stuff, so I hope that they’ll do it again and the second book of “Demon Trilogy” will appear in my country near by April. But honestly, you are the only one who can decide about how awesome the book will be, so I have a great request to you personally. Please, do me a favour and write another amazing story! I think you are a good writer and you deserve a present what will inspire you to do it. That’s why I’m sending you my artwork of Arlen. I hope you like it and I wish you good luck.
Your faithfully
Maciej
Included were two versions of the same image. One in B&W and the other in gory color. I literally clapped my hands and bounced in glee to see the images (click to enlarge):
It never ceases to amaze me, the creativity of my readers and how they interpret my work. To Maciej, Arlen is a friggin’ badass tank. If I was a demon and saw that guy, I would piss myself and head right back to the Core where I came from. I also love the intricacy of the wards; it must have taken him forever to put them all in.
In other news, there have been some interesting reviews popping up online lately. I used to make a point of linking to all of these, but it got a little overwhelming and I fell deeply behind. I should get back in the groove, though, so I’m at fighting trim when The Desert Spear finally starts making waves. Here’s a taste:
Annie the Superfast Reader gave one of the first reviews of The Great Bazaar on her blog the other day.
Annie was an early supporter of mine last year, posting one of the first US reviews and interviews of yours truly. Continuing her awesomeness, she has already read and reviewed The Desert Spear, as well as conducted another long interview with me about it. Alas, those are being held at the request of Del Rey books (who kindly provided her with the review copies) until we are closer to the TDS release date. Be on the lookout!
You may remember Verena, the German bookseller my buddy Myke made friends with a couple of weeks ago, ordering Das Lied der Dunkelheit from her store and buying it, only to turn around and give it to her, asking her to give it a read.
Well, Verena has shown herself to be a woman of refinement and good taste, in addition to beauty and slick fashion sense. She’posted her review of Das Lied der Dunkelheit here, and has since been sending me messages on facebook trying to entice me to visit Germany, like I needed any more enticement. I’m going the next chance I get. My 2010 travel budget is stretched a bit thin at the moment, but I will definitely make it out there ASAP.
Last but not least was a review of The Warded Man I just read a few minutes ago on The Human Element. I think the reviewer had an interesting take on the book. It’s fascinating how so many people read the same book and take away different things from it.
The pics are AWESOME! Very good work. The colors are beautiful.
I already saw those pics on DA, but they’re still aweseome! I can just agree with Verena, come and visit germany! We’re nice people 😉
Thanks for a few good words. I’m glad you like my arts.
@Iris: I was in Germany many times. I’m from Breslau 🙂
If you do make it to Germany, perhaps you can stop by Israel as well.
I’d love it if you could visit Germany!
I’m afraid Israel is a little bit too far… ;] And Germany I’ll visit, but in September.
Simcha, I will freely admit that, as an American, I suck at geography. Still, I’m pretty sure Germany and Israel are very far apart.
Maybe if I ever score an Israeli book deal, though…
You are making me blush!!! 🙂
That fanart is amazing. Work of art really!
<3
V
A nice little review. I hope my copy of The Great Bazaar gets here soon. Shiping to germany seems to take ages nowadays. 🙁
Oh and sucking at geography is not something you americans have as a monopoly, I dare to say that I, as a german, suck at geography as well. 😉
Well, I’m not so clear on the geography myself but as long as you’re flying around anyways you might as well stop by (I’ve never been to Germany but I know it’s closer then America)
I’ll have to work on spreading the word about your books so we can get you an Israeli book deal…