Self-Stalking, Part 1

So this will be a new recurring segment on the Peephole, where I secretly google myself late at night to see what I find, and then report back the results. Sometimes I will also point out funny traffic statistics of my website.

For instance, did you know that some intrepid student at the University of California found my website by searching “Is Peter Brett a Real Person?”

Geez, they could have just asked me. I would have been happy to tell them.

Another interesting searcher from sunny California found my site by googling “Malus Snowcrest”. Apparently that got a hit because of the superhero comic my friend Jeremy and I made in High School, The Fellowship, whose arch enemies were the supervillain team “Malus Magisti” (Latin for Evil Masters), and the book SNOWCREST, which I wrote a few years ago, and which got my foot in the door at JABberwocky, but never sold for various reasons.

A person from the Russian Federation found the site similarly, by searching “Magisti game” on google Russia.

One person found me by googling “recushion couch”. Not really sure how that happened…

In the world of PVB internet sightings, if you scroll WAY down to the Science Fiction & Fantasy section of the New Popular Fiction Report from Writer’s Digest, you’ll find a little shout out to me.

There’s also some advance praise for THE PAINTED MAN (which may or may not be called DARKFALL on its US release) from Charlaine Harris on the JABberwocky site.

Most importantly, if you are eager to buy a copy of THE PAINTED MAN, but can’t wait for it to hit shelves, those of you on the east side of the pond (or those of you who live in the Americas and don’t mind paying exorbitant shipping rates), can now pre-order my “stunning debut” from Amazon UK, and Waterstones, which is is apparently the Barnes & Noble of the UK.

Be careful, though. This version will spell “color” with a “u”, and “gray” with an “e”. As an interesting aside, since I grew up reading British authors like Tolkien, I always thought that was the proper way to spell those words until I started seeing red marks on my book reports and term papers in school.

Apparently, you can also pre-order it in Greek. I’m not quite sure, though, seeing as how that site is all Greek to me. Maybe you can just order the English version from a Greek bookseller. The book will eventually be translated into Greek, but we haven’t sent my Greek publisher the final copy for translation yet.

The same goes for Amazon France, where you can pre-order the Anglais version. Commandez-le dès aujourd’hui!

This Russian site mentions “Peter Brett” and “The Painted Man” (I plugged in the actual Russian characters, but WordPress didn’t understand them), but damned if I know what they’re talking about. My Russian is worse than my Greek, and my Greek is limited to “please”, “thank you”, and “excuse me”.

I got a .jpg of the first pass of the UK cover art from Voyager (who are currently in the process of totally revamping their website, which is why is seems a bit cobwebby), but I don’t have permission to post it to the site yet, so you’ll have to be patient.

Posted on March 24, 2008 at 8:50 am by PeatB
Filed under Events, Life, Musings, Writing
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5 responses to “Self-Stalking, Part 1”

  1. Dude… seriously… the anticipation! I am so excited.

    Posted by maggie, on March 24th, 2008 at 10:41 am
  2. So schweet!!!!

    Posted by Lo, on March 24th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
  3. All kinds of other weird crap pops up too, like an article about Timing of treatment initiation in Parkinson’s disease.

    Dude. You really have been busy, haven’t you?

    Posted by Myke, on March 24th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
  4. Actually, that is really me. I produced a lot of literature about Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s Disease (among other things) back in my medical publishing days.

    Posted by PeatB, on March 24th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
  5. I tried googling myself once… but I threw out my shoulder and got a nasty rash.

    Posted by matt, on March 25th, 2008 at 10:06 am