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SPELLWRIGHT UK & Commonwealth Cover

I'm happy to report that Voyager has sent me an image of the UK & Commonwealth cover for SPELLWRIGHT. The artist has done a wonderful job capturing the dynamic nature of the magic-system. Because magical runes are formed within muscle I think of spellwrights as athletes as well as authors. This cover does a wonderful job portraying that by showing a spellwright exposing his arms and forming sentences. I've sent a query to Voyager to see if I can learn more about the artist's creative...

Words, Words, Words

It's been a very hectic week. Mostly because, at least once a year, med students regress to high school and go to prom. Turns out that it's a lot better at 29 than it was at 19. The downside, of course, is that one must now contend with the Facebook sequela of prom. In any case, some work has been done in between times. More excitingly, some great news has come in:

I'm very proud to announce that I've accepted an offer from the eminent Mr. Stephan Askani of Klett-Cotta for a German...

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There are days I wish I could silence my inner geek. Or at least sedate him. Every time I hear a doctor talk to a patient about something that is now "fully operational" I have to fight the urge to intone—in my best Darth Vader voice—something like, "Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL kidney." (Yeah, I know that's a riff off the Emperor's line, but really, it's no fun to impersonate him.) Anyway, so far I've kept the darkside out of the clinic, but I'm a little...

Welcome to www.blakecharlton.com

Hello and welcome to my new home on the internet. I'm hoping with this site to unify my different online endeavors: the WordPress blog, the (of't neglected) LiveJournal mirror, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, and of course www.spellwright.com.

I'm thrilled with how beautifully the website has turned out. For that I'm most especially grateful to the multi-talented Jeremy Tolbert at Clockpunk Studios and to Todd Lockwood for letting us use his stunning cover art for Spellwright.

If you're reading t...

October Runaround

I hate blog posts with excuses about why the blogger has been remiss in blogging. Get on with it, man; tell us what's being keeping you from the keyboard. However, it seems I am about to post a list of excuses about why I have not been blogging. I'm feeling pretty meta over here at the moment. Do I hate this post? Unclear. Anyway…

Wonderful good news: I'm proud to announce that recently, I accepted an offer from the esteemed Mr. Jacques Post at Luitingh-Sijthoff for a Dutch Translation of...

Novels and Children

Sent the page proofs for SPELLWRIGHT off last night, my last chance to catch mistakes. I found the whole process rather nerve wracking. One can change very little in proofs; mostly it's punctuation and grammar and the like. I often found myself fretting over larger issues that I could not tackle. But, knowing me, I was probably fretting out of habit. I've been doing so to this book since I was 20. So, likely the limited ability to edit was a good thing. The whole process gave me the...