Convention Seasons starts here(ish) (Updated 27/1/12)

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 […]

All sorts of stuff roundup

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… […]

And it's 2012

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, […]

Event news and combined map

O-kay, on the back of all that Fantasyconcatenation I have some more confirmed dates for signings. Or at least date.
As well as joining Adam Nevill and Mark Charan Newton at Forbidden Planet on the 15th October, 1-2pm, I shall be in Reading the day before at the Waterstones Bookshop (the one on Broad Street as usual) on the […]

Fantasycon 2011 retrospective

Firstly, bloody hell but actually getting home from Fantasycon turned out to be the sort of journey that would have Gandalf and assorted hobbits calling in the eagles sort of early. UK rail services continuing to enact their divine duty to turn the lives of anyone daring to travel on the Sabbath to total crap.
Anyway, Fantasycon […]

News and new covers.

It's that time of year, or one of those times of year, when there's basically too much to blog about (1)
First of all, Signings and Events for the near and moderate future now include:
This weekend (30th September-1st October) Fantasycon, Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton. Complete programme here and rather like Alt Fiction earlier on, there's plenty of […]

Carta Mundi, and a little extra news

Firstly, I am very happy to present a complete (to date) set of maps for the world of the Insect-kinden here — and when I say complete, I include a map of the Commonweal, as a sneak preview from Heirs of the Blade.
For the news, very briefly:
Rebis, one of my all-time favourite publishers, have picked up the rights to the Polish translation […]

News roundup: Fantasycon, New cover art and cheap kindling.

Latest news from the world of the insect-kinden:
Firstly, I will be at Fantasycon 2011 this year (1) and I've been asked to sit on a panel on Trends in Fantasy Fiction, 10am Saturday. I will hopefully be essaying a reading too, as the five people who came to the last one at Alt Fiction seemed to enjoy it (2). […]

Alt Fiction Reading List

Alt Fiction was a grand success — both as author and as fanboy (and the sentiment "I'm fanboy first and writer second" seemed to be generally seconded by everyone that I met). As you can see from the schedule in the previous post, there was something for pretty much everyone, and I'm very grateful to Alex Davis […]

Alt Fiction — 25–26 June, Derby Quad

On the 25th and 26th June I shall be at Alt Fiction doing frankly a load of stuff at Derby Quad – it looks like one of the best convention line-ups I’ve done, with all manner of sundry panels, workshops and casting of pods(1). Therefore I cordially invite you to:
-        11am-12pm Saturday 25th in Cinema 2 – I’m on […]


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