Nov 23

An Aside | I’m Back!

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Well, after two (and a bit) long months, my vagabond days are over. I have my Macbook back in my possesion, a consistently solid roof over my head (some hostels are dodgy) and certainly won’t have to be waiting for anymore trains!

So what does this mean for you and A Dribble of Ink? Well, simply that things should be back to our regular broadcasting schedule!

I took every chance I could to blog over there, but it just wasn’t enough to satisfy me. Now that I’m back home I’ve got a load of content I’m just itching to put together. This includes reviews of Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan, The Ten Thousand by Paul Kearney (a less formal review of my re-read) and Blood Ties by Pamela Freeman. It was certainly a damn good 9 weeks of reading for me, so keep an eye out for those reviews over the next couple of weeks.
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Nov 23

Cover Art | The Painted Man and The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett

Cover Art
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Peter V. Brett’s debut novel, The Painted Man (The Warded Man in North America), has been making some waves since its release in the UK earlier this year. The concept is novel, and the fact that Brett wrote most of the novel on his Blackberry (talk about hand cramps!) certainly have the novel on my radar.

So I was interested to see that Harper Voyager has released the cover art for the second novel in the trilogy, The Desert Spear.

The cover art for Peter V. Brett’s The Desert Spear.

Continuing in the tradition of Joe Abercrombie, Brian Ruckley and David Abraham, it looks like Brett is yet another first-time author who really lucked out in the cover art department!

Here’s the equally cool cover for The Painted Man:

The cover art for Peter V. Brett’s The Painted Man.

You can visit Peter’s web site HERE.

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