Perseus Books Group is going to publish Book: The Sequel (all proceeds going to the National Book Foundation), and you're going to help write it ( Read more... )

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 ( Read more... )

We'll be posting a few character clip videos before the final unveiling of the 2 minute Book Trailer(tm) for the paperback of The Lady of Serpents and after that, the TV commercial.

This is the first video. Be sure and turn up the sound (or put on the headphones if you're at work.)

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I just started reading a terrific novel called Mistress of the Art of Death* -- and as I'm reading it, I realized: I love fiction that goes into the medieval era (or a fantasy version of this) and delves into murder, mayhem, and well...darkness.

I'm only a few chapters in, but I'm already loving this one. I'll post more when I've finished it. ( Read more... )

I just turned in (last week) the third book of The Vampyricon Trilogy -- and slept almost 14 hours afterwards. This is the longest uninterrupted sleep I've had since I was in my 20s (and I suspect a bar-hopping all-nighter kind of week had preceded those rests.)

The third book of The Vampyricon, The Queen of Wolves, has been the most intricate and ( Read more... )

Today -- and tonight -- I spent tinkering and writing, writing and tinkering.  But I'm not posting about writing per se here.

First, DK's The Ultimate Visual Dictionary is a lifesaver for fast research of things that you don't necessarily need to know everything about -- just enough to name it (the body part of a lizard, the forecastle of a ship, ( Read more... )

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