Welcome to another installment of Self-Stalking, where I point out all the links to stuff about me that I find while wasting time on google that I should be spending writing. Granted, google alerts has made it a lot easier to do this, but you’d be surprised nonetheless at the time I can waste with […]

I bought some new sneakers last week. I hate buying sneakers. It’s such a racket. You go to the shoe store and it’s all bright colors and three digit price tags, Brand names and ugly logos. All designed for the man who wants to show off his sneakers in addition to using them for their […]

I do.
32 weeks in the womb, and cute as a button:

I’ve got voices in my head.
We all do, really. The speak to us silently as we try to understand the world around us. When I meet people, I always try to figure out what makes them tick. What their motivations are, what goals they’ve set, and what they are willing to do to reach them. […]

I don’t really have anything to blog about, but I feel like posting anyway and I’m tired of working. So this will be kind of a free-flowing stream of thought.
I only wrote 1381 words today, but that small word count required a considerable amount of work, as I finally tunneled my way out of a […]

I sometimes get obsessive about looking at my web traffic statistics. It’s fun to see how many hits your site gets, and what states and countries they are from.
Recently, my agent and UK publisher talked up The Painted Man at London Book Fair, which got us some international attention. Not long after, we sent out […]

A couple of months ago, I posted a question to the site of my good friend and copyeditor extraordinaire, Deanna Hoak. The question was about interrobangs, which is the practice of using a combination of exclamation point and question mark in order to denote a question that is shouted, or otherwise intensified. Some people hate […]

I’ve been thinking about my “rap” about The Painted Man. This is something I need to practice quite a bit as my publication date nears, and I need to become something of a salesman in addition to an author.
I’ve never been good at sales. Or summaries. I’m a long story kind of guy, and […]

I’m not Jewish, but I play one on holidays.
I am a godless heathen, but my wife and her family are Jews, which exposes me to a lot of yiddish words and Jewish traditions. One of those is the Passover Seder, which I had to skip this year to go to NY ComicCon, (Sorry, God!), […]

Just got a quote from Terry Brooks for my book jacket:
“I enjoyed THE WARDED MAN immensely. There is much to admire in Peter Brett’s writing, and his concept is brilliant. Action and suspense all the way; he made me care about his characters and want to know what’s going to happen next.”
I will post […]