More Warded Love
Waiting around at the moment for a call from AM New York, who will be interviewing me for their paper this afternoon. Always a bundle of nerves before an interview, I figured I’d distract myself with a little blogging.
As usual, lots going on. Just this week I accepted an offer from a publisher in China to translate and publish The Warded Man and its sequels in Taiwan. More on that in a separate post to come. I am psyched to be able to color in some more places on the map, and to bring my stories to yet another part of the world. It really is an amazing feeling.
My launch party was also mentioned in a posting on Suvudu today. It’s always nice to get love from those folks. The article discusses how my launch was more like a birthday party than a proper book launch, but really, isn’t that what a launch party should be? A birthday party for the book. The Warded Man was born at 8am on March 10, 2009, weighing 1.4 pounds and measuring 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.7 inches. Book and daddy are both doing well, and thank you for all your kind wishes.
The Suvudu entry also shows love for my con-buddy Jackie Kessler, who took a break from writing demon stories to make you blush down to your toes to write one about superheroes. An advance copy of her upcoming book Black & White is on my to-read pile, so I can’t yet say if it’s as delightfully filthy as her usual fare. I think they might have washed her mouth out with soap for this one. They also give proper respect to the master sensei, Terry Brooks.
Some more reviews to cover, as well, starting with Tia Nevitt’s Fantasy Debut blog, who gives a great, spoiler-free review. She has a couple of fair nitpicks, but as she says, “…in spite of the critiques that are going to follow this paragraph, this is a brilliant novel.” That’s good enough for me!
Another nice, spoiler-free, 5 star review from Lady Dragoness at Dragon Views. Google alerts just pointed this one out to me a minute ago.
Pamela K. Kinney included enough spoilers in her review on her blog, Fantastic Dreams, that I would suggest not reading it until you’ve read the book, unless you don’t mind that sort of thing. That said, her review was rather postitive apart from a few critiques.
Another mostly positive but slightly spoilery review on Manga Maniac Cafe. The author makes a point of warning that the review may contain spoilers right at the start, though, so kudos for that.
Just as an aside, am I the only one who can’t say “kudos” without thinking of the candy bars? Maybe I should start sending them out to my reviewers who warn against or avoid spoilers.
Last but not least, Gustavo Bondoni received an advance review copy of the book, and gleefully threatened on his LiveJournal page to “clobber it if it sucks”. Thankfully, I managed to win him over. You can see his short, spoiler-free review here.
Heh — actually, no soap. Radio.
How do you wash a mouth out with radio?