Voyager Online
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 to boost the release of the book through their fantasy imprint, Voyager Au. They sent a number of advance read copies to Booktagger to allow people an early taste, which netted some pretty positive reviews. The Voyager blog will also be featuring a series of articles by yours truly in the coming days, starting with this one, entitled “I Always Wanted to Be a Fantasy Author…”, which was posted on Monday morning. Give the regular blog a read if you have a chance, as well. They get some great authors to do guest posts.
I will also be appearing for a live radio interview on Sport 927 in Victoria tomorrow at… er… well, it’s 11:15am EST. I think Australia is +9 hours to London, which is +5 to the Eastern US, which means +14 hours or, uh… 1:15am in Victoria? Pretty sure that’s right. The show is Nightmoves with Grant Boyden and Trevor Himstedt. Hopefully I won’t say anything stupid on live radio.
The publicist at Voyager Au also passed on this fantastic review of the book, which was a pleasure to read. The reviewer, Nyssa, also sent me a batch of interview questions today, so look for that interview sometime soon.
On an unrelated note, I found this UK review from a blog called the Wertzone the other day, which is pretty positive, as well.
“The worst thing about the Painted Man….is that it ends at all”
Ah. I know the feeling.
It hasn’t ended. There’s just a brief intermission.
There’s this spear. It’s in a desert.
I think they call it the Desert Spear.