http://petervbrett.com/blog Journal of Peter V Brett Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:13:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://petervbrett.com/blog/2008/10/10/albacon-and-the-hotlist/ I set a writing quota for myself every day: One thousand words. It may sound like a lot, but really, it's a very modest goal, about three and a half double-spaced pages. Some weeks I don't even come close, and other weeks I greatly exceed it. I consider >10,000 words ... http://petervbrett.com/blog/2008/10/05/words-written-vs-words-used/ So yesterday I accepted an offer from esteemed Portuguese publisher Edições Gailivro for Portuguese language rights to The Painted Man and two sequels. This makes the ... http://petervbrett.com/blog/2008/10/03/portuguese-man-o-wards/ 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 ... http://petervbrett.com/blog/2008/10/02/malowany-czlowiek/ 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 ... http://petervbrett.com/blog/2008/10/01/david-gemmell-award-nomination/ 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 ... http://petervbrett.com/blog/2008/09/28/giveaway/ 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. ... http://petervbrett.com/blog/2008/09/25/konnichiwa/ I've been trying to think of something to blog about, but I've really got nothing to say tonight. Cassie had her first shots yesterday, and while she took them like a champ, she has been feverish and unpredictable for the last 36 hours or so. Not in a very creative ... http://petervbrett.com/blog/2008/09/23/i-give-up/ I'm actually doing "real" writing today, so no time for a formal blog post. Still, I don't want to ruin my update streak, so here's a picture of me and my favorite redhead to make the grandparents happy: http://petervbrett.com/blog/2008/09/22/my-favorite-redhead/ 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 ... http://petervbrett.com/blog/2008/09/21/a-boy-goes-on-a-journey/