Shadows of the Apt

The next few months have suddenly turned busy, as a number of threatened signings and events have materialised. So, here's the social calendar:
4^th-5^th February — SFX Weekender convention at Camber Sands.
11^th February — signing stock for Forbidden Planet and Blackwells bookshop in London — not an actual signing but there will be signed books kicking about […]

This is about as rough as things get, and may be only inside my own head, but:
1^st weekend of February, 4-6^th, is the SFX Weekender, so I'll be there doing stuff, and probably also signing.
2^nd weekend, 12-13^th should see me in Reading or Oxford or both, or something like that, probably on the Saturday, probably at […]

I appear to have Stuff On already for the next few months, and so:
1. I will be asking pertinent questions of Iain M Banks at the Morley Literature Festival on the 15^th October (next week). All a bit short notice and the actual event was fully booked out before I was even signed up, and given Mr B's portfolio, not […]

I't s been a while since I last posted, and this is because the final proofs for Sea Watch have turned up, and this last stage of the publication process that I get involved in is intensive, time-consuming and conducted to a strict deadline. The draft I had of book 7 is also back in the shop, propped up on bricks while […]

Was my first thought when I got a big ol' box of The Scarab Path from Tor UK this week. Yes, I did write it, but I had no idea it would be so enormous in print. Anyone who felt they were missing some pages from Blood of the Mantis will find them in Scarab Path (1).
And I owe a huge debt […]

Yes, yes, not been posting much recently, but busy with the book, don'tcherknow. Or books, to be precise. Book 5 (The Scarab Path), which has been running a bit late, has finally been packed off, and I won't see it again until it's actually in print (release date start August). Book 6 (The Sea Watch) has come back […]

1. The Polish language book 2 is out, entitled Kleska Wazki (1), or at least I've got my copies through, so it should be out soon. The title is a straight translation of Dragonfly Falling and Jon Sullivan's UK art is on the cover.
2. The German language books are also out, and I think we have threevolumes hitting the […]

…is what I shall be at on the 1^st of May.
Check out the websie here. I'm down for:
1.00pm — coffee klatch — come and meet the author (1)
2.15pm — panel: the 30 second commute — how the electronic age will make everything and everyone obsolete.
Please do come over and see me, or indeed such luminaries as China Mieville […]

Obviously the best way is to turn up at a signing, however…
For those that can't, for reasons geographical or otherwise, I now have a solution, as promised.
Byron Godfrey, who runs the independent bookshop in Garforth where I live, is able to provide signed copies on request, on the basis that I can pop down and sign some for him as […]