Random Awesomeness

Peat just told me he’s been making a “shitload” of progress on the Daylight War recently so he hasn’t been able to post much, so I’m posting instead. I’m sure you’ll all prefer that and add your own “Write! Write like the wind!” comments as well. To tide you over until he finishes the book, here are some great stuff from the PVB world.

As you may remember from this post, Voyager is doing a big campaign in the UK with the slogan “Read Brett yet?”. They did a great post about the campaign here. Perhaps one of the coolest things about this campaign for The Desert Spear is that Waterstones is including a belly-banded version of it that includes a booklet of The Great Bazaar. This is quite special since The Great Bazaar hasn’t been published in the UK before. You can see it here. It’s the pages that seem to be facing the wrong way. (It’s not, I promise!)

You can see posters at major underground tube stops all over London for it. This one was at the Moorgate station, but posters have been sighted at South Kensington and others.

You can find Peat quoted in this cool article from Salon.com. It talks about older guys who are going back to Dungeons & Dragons after many years and Peat talks about how D&D helped him become a better writer. Sadly, it does make me a little envious as I’m not an older man who is returning to an old past time…it does really make me want to find a new D&D group though.

I’m not sure why the internet has gotten so violent recently; we had the cage match with Arlen and Peat himself is getting in on some Battle Royale action at Fantasy Faction. Fantasy Faction is a message board so feel free to chime in yourself.

Peat also did a great interview at SFSignal. It’s pretty long, covering tons of stuff like why he isn’t called Peter VD Brett, the ever lovely Cassie, his awesome friends, his upcoming Red Sonja comic, as well as the Daylight War (everyone wants to know about that, right?), the Warded Man movie (and leading from that superhero and fantasy movies in general), and why you should read epic fantasy series even though they’re not finished yet (I’m looking at you Game of Thrones). It’s a really fun and informative interview.

SF Signal also did another interview with Peat about music here. It’s a cool interview and really can tell you a lot about his working style, because as he says, he listens to music constantly while working (which I can vouch for), and I’m going to add that his music collection is huge, so he knows what he’s talking about (and that’s not just me being nice to my boss!;)).

Peat is nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy for Desert Spear! He’s already on the short list, and so you can now vote for him by going here. It will only take about 10 seconds so you don’t have to do a long form or anything.

You may remember Birte from this post. She had written two music compositions based off of the books and she even made cover art!

Someone else has also taken the same vein; Agnieszka wrote a composition for the Desert Spear as well.

A while ago, Pat Rothfuss was doing a book signing tour and was in the city along with little baby Oot! Of course Peat had to go, but he didn’t want to stand in line for hours with little Cassie, so I held a spot for him. Here is is an adorable picture of Cassie with Pat Rothfuss. Cassie is pretty cute too. 😉

You may remember Marken as the cool guy who made the Thesan Wiki. We did a post about it here. Well, apparently he is a man of many talents; he’s created a comic of The Warded Man. Here is his first strip, and it starts off with a bang… if you could call it that.

Here is his sketch of young Arlen by himself.

Also in the news, the rights to The Desert Spear have been sold to Varrak in Estonia. You may remember the Estonian cover of The Painted Man which is really different from all the other versions.

The pencils and edits are done for Red Sonja Blue and they look fantastic. Right now Peat is waiting on the coloring and lettering to be finished. It will be coming out in late June and it’s going to be awesome!

They have made the first few copies of L’Or de Brayan. I’m sure that when you take a look at it you’re going to gasp like I did. It’s absolutely fantastic and I’ve decided that I need to learn French.

Eliamyrh posted this great drawing of Renna on Deviantart.

Peat’s French publisher Bragelonne is doing a really fun event while he’s in France for Imaginales. They’re hosting a party  with him and Trudy Canavan. You can find the information here. The English translation is here. All you have to do is email them saying you would like to attend. It is first come first served so you might want to hurry.

Angela Asaleem, a writer, has featured Peat on her website and listed him as one of her favorite authors. You can see it here.

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Posted on May 4, 2011 at 1:32 pm by Hannah
Filed under Appearances, Brayan's Gold, Cassie, Contests, Desert Spear, Fan Art, Fans, France, Great Bazaar, Interviews, Rebecca, Red Sonja, Sales, The Daylight War, Warded Art, Warded Man, Writing
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