It’s been a week since the convention, but one thing or another has been taking up my time, and I haven’t really had a chance to put down my thoughts. Mainly because I knew this might be a long post.
First off, the drive to Albany was amazing. With my fancy new Garmin GPS navigator, there [...]

Quick post this morning as I need to be out the door shortly. I’m putting Dani and the baby in the car and taking them to my parents’ house, then my partner in crime/evil twin Jay Franco and I are heading up to Albany, NY for Albacon. I will be on a handful of panels [...]

Some nice updates to the News page today, a little appetizer before the major site overhaul that is coming… sometime in the next 1-365 days, depending on my social butterfly of a webmaster.
Exciting news just in from Poland. The Painted Man, which translates into Polish as Malowany Czlowiek, will be published there on November 28th, [...]

So exciting! I’ve just learned that The Painted Man has been nominated for its first award, the David Gemmell Legend Award! According to the site: “The DGLA will be presented for the very first time in 2009 for the best Fantasy novel of 2008. The award will be given to a work written in the [...]

I notice Graeme Flory over at Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review is giving away 5 free signed 1st edition hardback copies of The Painted Man on his website. They may well be all gone by now, but it can’t hurt to check. Graeme wrote a great review of the book on his site a few weeks [...]

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 [...]

It’s been an interesting day.
Last week’s sales numbers are in, and show no decline from first week to second, which is fantastic. It technically means I did even better than the first week, since week #1’s total also included pre-orders that might  have come months earlier. I was #15 on the UK SF bestseller list, [...]

As I mentioned yesterday, I did an interview with Grant Boyden at Sport 927am in Victoria, Australia this morning. Despite being a little nervous on live air and saying “um” and “uh” about a thousand times, I managed to get through the interview reasonably competently.
If you’re interested, you can find the interview as a podcast [...]

While The Painted Man was released in hardcover on September 1 in the UK, the trade paperback versions that will go on sale in Australia were shipped by rowboat, and will not be released until the end of September or possibly the beginning of October.
Harper Collins Australia, however, has been working hard behind the scenes [...]

 
The big day had finally arrived! My first scheduled signings. I was both excited and a little nervous. What if no one came? Ugh. Pressure.
We started the day by heading back to the flagship Waterstones in Piccadilly Circus, and they had finally received their late shipment of twenty copies. My publicity agent at Harper had [...]