Der Spiegel

Das Flüstern der Nacht, the German translation of  The Desert Spear, was released today. Amazon has it listed as #1 in Fantasy and #30 in overall books. It climbed as high as #15 over the weekend. In addition to this, based on Amazon orders alone, which activated last week when the book shipped, I made the German Bestseller list, reaching #40 in Der Speigel according to Buchreport!

This is fantastic news, and thanks in no small part to the tireless efforts of Sebastian Pirling, my German editor at Heyne, and Ingrid Herrmann-Nykto, my wonderful and hard-working translator, not to mention my fine German agent at the Fritz Agency.

Heyne made a wonderful web page for the first book, and they are doing no less this time around. A special interactive map will be posted hopefully tomorrow, including video interviews I sent about the various cities and hamlets. I will put up the link as soon as I have it.

Also, this weekend I got a bit drunk

Posted on August 9, 2010 at 6:39 pm by PeatB
Filed under Appearances, Desert Spear, Events, Germany, Writing
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6 responses to “Der Spiegel”

  1. 2 things:

    1) Was the picture taken just after the lip-lock, as it appears, or were before, while you going for the chaste peck while he went for the open mouth wonder…

    2) Prior to reading about the German edition of your wonderful book, I had just written a little bit in my blog and posted a couple videos at http://therantinggriffin.blogspot.com/2010/08/monday-made-better.html resulting in a rather odd synchronicity, at least with regard to language…

    Posted by J. Griffin Barber, on August 9th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
  2. Hi Peat,

    a little help to find your way home for the next festivities:
    http://www.heyne-magische-bestseller.de/feature_brett2_intro.html

    Heyne Fantasy Tours
    SP

    PS: I am thinking about hiring you as a professional tour guide. :o)

    Posted by SP, on August 10th, 2010 at 4:35 am
  3. pete! thanks so much for showing up to the reading. i’d crash Valhalla (the bar or the home of the gods) with you anytime.

    Posted by Blake Charlton, on August 10th, 2010 at 9:27 am
  4. Congratz, Pete, on making the German bestseller list.

    And that’s a great photo.

    Posted by Jon Sprunk, on August 10th, 2010 at 9:46 am
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    Posted by Peter V Brett :: Peephole In My Skull, on August 10th, 2010 at 10:35 am
  6. Nicely done, Congratulations!

    Posted by Denise, on August 10th, 2010 at 11:13 am