Upon recently reaching 5,000 followers on Twitter, someone had a great idea: I should give away something free! I think other people have had this idea for a long time. We call those BitTorrent geeks. This time, however, they actually asked my permission! See what happens when you say please? (Note: please do not say [...]
Tag Archive for ‘geekery’ 
San Diego Comic-Con
I’m told I need have no fear: these are “our people.” The demography of geekery. More fanboys than an Apple WWDC. (And a worse wifi connection.) I’ll be at the San Diego Comic-Con from Thursday, July 22nd to Sunday, July 25th. It will be like this–except with far more midichlorians. Here’s a list of my public [...]
So, what IS GraphicAudio?
A graphic audio book of The Way of Shadows (part 1 of 2) is coming out in April, with installments following it monthly. But Brent, I thought you already have an audiobook. Yeah, I do. But GraphicAudio does something different. GraphicAudio performs books with actors and sound effects and a sound track. The books ARE [...]
Brent Brawling at the Borders Book Blog
What’s better than hearing your favorite writer geek out about writerly stuff? Hearing ME geek out about writerly stuff. What’s better than that? An epic MMA (mixed mental arts) cage match between Joe Abercrombie in the lily white trunks, weighing in at ten stone, and Brent Weeks in the sunburnt red trunks, weighing in at [...]
Live Interview with Geekerati this Wednesday
On Wednesday, February 11th at 7pm PST (3AM GMT), I’ll be doing my first live interview for the Blog Talk Radio program Geekerati. Details and call in number HERE, along with a nice reminder feature if you want to tune in. They do field a couple of phone calls depending on time, and it looks like [...]
Geeks Rejoice!
There’s this guy, invented a little operating system called Linux. Name’s Linus Torvalds, “the world’s most famous computer programmer.” He dug my trilogy. (Or should that be Dugg?) True, I’ve received higher praise than HIS, but still…

