Feb 10

Interview | Peter V Brett

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Peter V. Brett, author of The Painted ManSince his debut novel, The Painted Man (called The Warded Man in North America) was released late last year, Peter V. Brett has been making quite a name for himself. Considered by many to be the best Fantasy debut since Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind and right up alongside other debut’s such as Scott Lynch’s The Lies of Locke Lamora and Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself, Brett’s first novel has a lot to live up to.

Peter and I cover a lot of things in the interview, including the fact that a large part of The Painted Man was written on his PDA, why it’s okay for an unpublished author to tackle a trilogy, how life has changed since becoming a full time writer and why he’s not writing 900,000 words a year.

But you don’t want to hear that from me, right? Hear it from the man himself, instead.

The Interview

Peter, welcome to A Dribble of Ink! To start things off, why don’t you tell us something that we don’t know about Peter V. Brett.

   I had really long hair and wore heavy metal t-shirts in high school.

Now how about something we don’t know about The Painted/Warded Man

   The first draft had a totally different (and in my opinion, shit) ending about building warded roads, and didn’t introduce Rojer and Leesha until they were adults. In retrospect, it’s no wonder why no one wanted to buy or represent that draft.
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Feb 10

An Aside | Hater by David Moody

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I’m a sucker for interesting marketing, especially when it embraces the viral nature of the Internet. Cue David Moody’s upcoming novel, Hater:

DAVID MOODY self – published Hater online in 2006. Without an agent, he succeeded in selling the film rights to Guillermo del Toro (director, Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy 1 & 2, and the upcoming Hobbit series) and Mark Johnson (producer, The Chronicles of Narnia). With the official publication of Hater (2/17/2009), David is poised to make a significant mark as a writer of “farther out” fiction of all varieties.

Oh yeah, and the cover art is fantastic, also:

Hater by David Moody

It’s always interesting to see an a self-published author make it to the big game. I’ll be keeping an eye on Hater.

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