Apologies for the gap in posting, but life has been hectic all roung. New job, for example. Yes, day job, still. The whole writing shenanigan is not enough to settle the bills as of yet. (1)
However, a new story detailing the murkier side of Collegium academia, because whilst the books are full of academics spying, fighting and […]
Another brief B-road of the information superhighway:
I will be signing at Garforth Independent Bookshop at 11.00am til noon, Saturday 29th August, if you've missed me at Leeds, Reading etcetera.
As a final and somewhat further flung item on the tour (1) I will be in Poland from the 5th to the 8th November to catch up with the Krakow science […]
A series of quick-fire notes on the eve of my setting off for London for Official Release Debauchery ™:
I've put up a new short story. Actually I lie: this is the story that was published in Deathray a few months back, that they're happy for me to put up here now that sufficient time has passed. It's The […]
It's that time of year again (1). Blood of the Mantis, Shadows of the Apt book 3, is being let out of its cage on the 7th of August, and, cometh the book, cometh the signings.
We're keeping with our track record (2) of adding an additional venue for each book, and some of the details […]
I'm delighted to bring you a new piece of fiction, set in the post-war Commonweal and focusing on Roach-kinden, amongst others, by new writer Grahame Jones. The story is here.
Grahame writes, of himself:
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Well, what can I say about me? Just the usual sort of fluff. In 1792 I was washed up on the shore of southern Sumatra in […]
Being the latest in my occasional rants about foodstuffs. This has nothing to do with he book (2). In one of my sporadic and ill-informed attempts to eat more healthily I decided that I would forego all chocolate, biscuits & c and instead eat cereal bas. Cereal bars are healthy, right? Everyone knows it. Anyway, after scouring the […]
Or at least I think it's 5. Is the one that;s just been released 4?
Only I got talking recently and the subject came up of the Terminator franchise. Now I've not seen Terminator 4. I've not seem Terminator 3, assuming there was one, and the one that's just gone isn't 3(1). My general lack of filmgoing is […]
A brief but happy post to announce that Shadows of the Apt, like a good missile, has now gone intercontinental. In early 2010 expect to see the first three books turn up on US shelves at intervals of around a month, bringing America up to date swiftly. Credit for this goes to Lou Anders and Pyr, the SF […]