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 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 [...]

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 [...]

How did I forget to mention the interview? Ugh. My brain is rotting.
After we stumbled back from Charing Cross, I had time for a quick shower and a bout of nerves. Alice, the young and alluring publicist from Harper Collins, was coming over to my hotel room with a camera crew to film a video [...]

In many respects, London feels much like New York or DC. Many of the neighborhoods have a similar feel, like how Camden Town feels like Greenwich Village, and Piccadilly Circus is a little like Times Square. But there’s a section of London that doesn’t have an equivalent I know of anywhere else. It’s a [...]