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 […]
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 […]
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.
The […]
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, I didn’t […]
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 […]
On Wednesday I got up at 5am to catch the 6:55 Eurostar to Paris. The train leaves from St. Pancras Station in London, which Wenk told me was an easy walk from Camden Town. I took a quick shower and stumbled out into the darkness to find Ensign Cole and Wenk on the corner. It […]
