Archive for May, 2011
Pandemonium in Hebrew
For all you folks in Israel and beyond who like to read the way God intended it — from right to left — I’m pleased to announce that Pandemonium is now available in Hebrew from the Israeli publisher, Graff Publishing. Man, I love that cover. And I’m amazed by the different choices made by each [...]
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PW digs Stony
So here’s a nice way to start your day: At 8am yesterday, my agent called. Publisher’s Weekly had just covered Raising Stony Mayhall, and not only had they given it a starred review, but they made it their pick of the week. And today that review is online. They open with “Richly textured settings and [...]
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Free Stony! Free Him Now!
Over on Goodreads.com, we’re giving away 20 copies of Raising Stony Mayhall. It’s been up for a day, and we have (as of the moment I type this) 170 172 people signed up. (I need to publish this quick.) ( 5/22/11 udpate: We’re up to 420 people, with 9 days to go…) But even if [...]
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Boy Meets End of the World
Last night I finished reading Greg van Eekhout’s fabulous The Boy at the End of the World. I haven’t had this much fun with a book in quite a while. I have to admit that I never would have picked this book up if I didn’t know Greg. See, it’s aimed at middle-grade readers, and [...]
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Oh, this is cool. Did I mention that Planet of the Apes #1 sold out? Well it did, and they’ve done a second printing with a new cover, which looks exactly like this: Damian was one of the artists on Dracula: Company of Monsters, and I feel very lucky to have him also drawing some [...]
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Calm, Cool, and Collected
Patrick Swenson, the man behind Fairwood Press, has just released the cover for Unpossible and Other Stories, my collection of short stories that he’ll be publishing this fall. The cover is very cool, which makes me happy, and therefore calm. We recruited Antonello after seeing the beautiful job he’d done on the cover for the [...]
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What to get your nerd
Hey folks, tomorrow is Nerd Christmas, otherwise known as Free Comic book day. Take your loved one down to the local comic book shop. I recommend the free, 10-page prologue to Chris Roberson’s Elric: The Balance Lost. This is an original 12-issue miniseries starting this summer, and based on the characters and worlds of Michael [...]
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Happy to be your dealer
And now, best blurb ever: “It’s like pages are laced with cocaine, I am so hooked on this damn thing.” That was Aron Head talking about Dracula: Company of Monsters. I had a BLAST last night talking to Aron and Paul Aponte, the co-founders of the Ideology of Madness website and the podcast Funny Books [...]
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