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If you visit mania.com right now, you’ll spot the cover for The Killing Song as the featured image for their Weekly Book Buzz. Open up the Book Buzz link, scroll down a bit into the new in paper section (past Sergei Lukyanenko, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs) and you’ll see a little [...]
If you’re reading The Killing Song and feel like chatting about it, head over to the Eberron book club forum at worldsofdnd.com — you’ll have to register to contribute your comments, but it’s very easy, the forums absolutely do not generate junk mail, and you’ll get some good conversation out of it. You don’t have [...]
Don Bassingthwaite (me) — Canadian fantasy writer
Natalie Bassingthwaighte — Australian singer and actress.
No relation — or at least no direct relation. Given that Bassingthwaite is a pretty darn uncommon name, I’m sure that if I ever ran in to Natalie we could spend… ooo… minutes trying to figure out exactly how we were related.
We could [...]
I admit it — I have a kilt obsession. I am sorely tempted to buy myself a kilt. I’m curious about them. I’m very curious about them. They sound really comfortable and just plain cool (that’s cool as in distinctive and stylish, not as in well-ventilated, although I’m they’re that as well). I even have [...]
Since it’s de rigueur now, I’ve whacked up a MySpace page — myspace.com/dbassingthwaite.
It is actually kind of fun skimming through friends lists and I’ve had a go at look ing up old friends to see if they happen to be there (I’ve discovered that two guys from high school have a band here in Toronto: [...]
Break out the bubbly, crack it across the bow, and duck the spray — sometimes you just have to create a new category for posts. I christen thee “Bizarre,” and the first entry is….
Modern Moist Towelette Collecting. Tongue firmly in cheek (I hope) but still bizarre. View the gallery and gape in amazement.
I must have made it — Wizards of the Coast has created wallpaper for The Killing Song!
 You can download it, as well as check out an interview with me, on the Wizards of the Coast book page here.
 BTW, you should check out the other book publishing this month: Mark Sehestedt’s Frostfell (sample chapter available in the [...]