Aidan Moher asked me for an excerpt from The Desert Spear to post on his SF blog A Dribble of Ink sometime in March. I agreed and took my personal reference ARC to leaf through, looking for something cool to lift out that didn’t have any spoilers. An hour later, I realize all I’ve done […]
Book Review: The Blade Itself
Bias disclosure: I have no relationship with Joe Abercrombie or his publisher. Never met the guy and haven’t read any of his other work. I picked up this book in part on the recommendations of friends, but partly because Abercrombie is, in the vernacular of The Blade Itself, a Named Man. Online, his name is […]
A Note on Book Reviews
I don’t review many books on the Peephole these days. Part of that is a kind of professional awkwardness. When I was blogging in obscurity, I could say whatever I wanted about a book. Say it fucking sucked, speak ill of the author’s mother, whatever. Alternately, I could gush about how awesome it was like […]
The Lies of Locke Lamora
In 2007 I went to the World Fantasy convention, which was being held that year in Saratoga, NY, just a pleasant few hours’ drive from where I live. I had just sold The Painted Man (back in stock on Amazon UK after selling out and going back on press!) and its sequels and had just […]