I now have some firm details on panels for SFX and Alt Fiction and there are some nice meaty subjects to get stuck into:
12pm Friday 3rd February at SFX, I'm doing
"Elf Preservation: without magic and monsters, it's not fantasy. Is it?"
Expect me to get my Peake on unless someone beats me to it.
UPDATE: I will also be signing at the […]
Not to be confused with SF series by either Stephen Donaldson or Peter F. Hamilton.
And, yes, they say make your blog entries short and pithy, but when I get my rant on it's hard to stop, Explains why the books tend to break the 200,000 word barrier, certainly.
And before I start, the Shadows of the Apt Wiki […]
Firstly, for those waiting for the regular paperback format of Heirs of the Blade, the arrival of a box of author copies informs me that this will be released soon (Amazon says 2nd February(1)). Anyone wanting to get the first signed copy can shanghai me (2) at SFX, as they should be about for that weekend.
Secondly… […]
They're in! And both the Sea Watch and Heirs of the Blade are on the long list for the Legend Award (best book) (1).
These are the fantasy awards, after the David of the same name, voted for by you, the readers.
If anyone would like to support the home team (2), voting is accomplished here. Also up […]
Something different today as I talk about someone else's writing for a change and interview author Janine Ashbless. Janine wrote me the short story, The Scent of Tears, written — under another name — for this site, a strong story whose elements (with Janine' s approval) are actually feeding into the main series plot as we speak.
Janine already has a body […]
And nuts to the Mayans (1).
I will shortly have a crack at another post on computer games, this time with the spotlight on role-playing (or lack of same), but currently research is, er, taking up all my time.
For now, just a quick update.
The various projects that I previously mentioned I was contributing to are now all up for grabs, being:
Vivisepulture, […]
Because it's the season, my gift to you is a dozen cartoons that have absolutely nothing to do with Christmas whatsoever. I make no warranties as to whether they have anything to do with humour, either. Click on each one (hopefully) for a larger image.
Anyway:
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Contains some spoilers for book 4 and later.
Brief diversion on the writer's art to look at these two characters, a brace of Beetle-kinden politicians. Unprepossessing stuff, surely.
However, what the two of them, bitter rivals as they are, demonstrate is the ability of characters to get completely out of control. Along with many writers, I've often gone off on […]
It is with trembling hands that I type: the first draft of book 9, "War Master's Gate" (1), is finished.
I'm not going to lie to you, it's been a rough ride. I'm slick with blood up to the elbows, and my normal protests that the story unfolds of its own momentum, with minimal fiddling from me, are […]
Apologies for the gap in posting, which is entirely because I'm working on the edits for Air War whilst also trying to get the last few chapters of War Master's Gate down, and is not at all to do with buying Skyrim.
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