Autotrumpetry: Signature Tunes : Shadows of the Apt

Autotrumpetry: Signature Tunes

First of all I abjure, conjure and invoke you to go out and buy the Feb/March issue (issue 17) of the magazine Death Ray, for therein I have an article. Look at me the serious journalist.

So: the Adrian Tchaikovsky world tour 2009 part 1(1) commences shortly. Please come along if you're in the area. I'll be signing book 1, the new book 2 and, if someone gets me drunk enough, quite possibly copies of Tolkien and Jeffrey Archer (2).

Tour dates are:

Saturday 7^th February — 3.30pm — Waterstone's Reading
United Reform Building, 89a Broad Street, Reading RG1 2AP

Saturday 14^th February — 1.30pm — Garforth Bookshop
15 Main Street, Garforth, Leeds, LS25 1DS

Saturday 28^th February — 1pm — Travelling Man games shop
32 Central Road, Leeds, LS1 6DE

Bring your friends, bring your enemies, bring generous-minded literary critics!

To pay off my karmic debt for all this navel-gazing I also note that Frances Hardinge's new book, Gullstruck Island is out. I've previously waxed rhapsodic about her Fly-by-Night, and I look forward to getting to grips with this one. Also, the cover's all over beetles, which is always a Good Thing.

(1) Part 2 should be in August for Blood of the Mantis

(2) By which I mean books written by, not some weird cloning shenanigans.

Posted by Adrian Tchaikovsky on January 21st, 2009

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7 comments to “Autotrumpetry: Signature Tunes”

Stefano Pachi, January 22nd, 2009 at 5:28 pm:

I'm really looking forward to Dragonfly. I live in Brazil, and my school classes wil begin next week, and I must say that I'm even looking forward to it, for the sooner it begins the sooner Dragonfly is released and the sooner can I wait two to three weeks until amazon delivers it here. Yay!
Seriously now, I hope the second book is even better than the first one, which I believe it will be, and that you sell enough to a) live very well without another job and b) write/publish more shadows of the apt novels (good ones, not just a some sequels made to sell, without any of the marvellous and appealing characteristics the original novels had, such as worldbuilding, beautiful fighting description and some concepts which are very tasty food for thought). I think I'm sort of ranting because my head feels light headed… I've gotten a little chubbier lately and was exercising after three months without doing any serious physical exercise. My body was not as fit as it used to be… Oh, there I go again…
Have a very self-rewarding and sucessful writing career!
P.S. Really wish I could meet you and have my book signed, probably with an "I'm a big fan" stupid smile on my face… By the way, I have no idea what you look like, but I have to say you look sort of insect-ish and have a beard in my mind…
Adam, January 23rd, 2009 at 9:20 pm:

Well, you're right about the beard.

Enjoy yourself, Adrian!
Janine Ashbless, January 27th, 2009 at 10:27 am:

It's "adjure" not "abjure"…
LARPers *always* get that one wrong! I think it descends from an original Treasure Trap spell-vocal via Labyrinth.
😉

Sorry Adrian!
Adrian Tchaikovsky, January 27th, 2009 at 12:49 pm:

You're absolutely correct. I think the derivation probably also partakes of the old D&D spell classification of abjuration.

Learn something new every day 🙂
Grahame, January 31st, 2009 at 4:26 am:

Also very much looking forward to the new book. I might read the first one again just to ensure I'm up to speed.

Death Ray, eh? I'd love to read your article, but don't know how to get hold of a copy. The last time I saw one in the shops was early last year. To be honest, I thought it had folded.

See you on the 7^th!
Adrian Tchaikovsky, February 4th, 2009 at 8:27 pm:

Nope, Death Ray's alive and well and printing my articles!

And Stefano — hope you enjoy book 2 as much as book 1.
Rebecca, February 5th, 2009 at 5:24 pm:

Oh, I wish you were coming up to Glasgow. I'm a bookseller up here (at Borders) and I'm doing my best to push your books cause I think they are excellent (even though bugs kinda creep me out 🙂

If you are ever in the area stop by and sign stock even.

Wishing you all the best and looking forward to the next book, Rebecca

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