Just a very brief note to say that, if you are replete with Kindle-owning (1) friends who haven't yet met the insect-kinden then Pyr/Prometheus have a limited time promotion on, with Empire going for just $1.99. Then they can buy the rest full price, damn them .
(1) Kindling? Can you gerund it?
Absolutely not. Just to clear up, there's been no movement on film rights etc. However, I do get asked (must do a FAQ some time) and I do think about what such a film would look like. Or better still, a GoT-style series. That would be very nice.
I'm overjoyed that the Game of Thrones is doing so well, not only because […]
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 […]
As I can now consider myself an established fantasy author, it's time to start delaying release of my books to annoy people.
Seriously, though, I've just been told that Heirs of the Blade will be coming out in October this year, not August. I did wonder if we were pushing the envelope release-wise, as I hadn't seen the final […]
Some Things.
I've had the Alt Fiction schedule through (first draft anyway) — this is 25–26 June 2011 at the Derby Quad. I'll put up a dedicated post to it, but the schedule looks interesting enough that I will hopefully be in the audience for most of it, and I have a couple of nice panels myself — one on […]
Recommended reading today is a column from the Escapist where Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, best known for his acerbic game reviews in Zero Punctuation, has some interesting things to say about drama and action sequences.
I agree wholeheartedly with his take — far more so for films than for games, but then I run into the issue in films […]
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 […]
Following on from the previous two, here is my track listing for book 3. As before, you could probably glean some spoilers from this if you really wanted.
Blood of the Mantis (un)original soundtrack
Track 1 — The Wasps come to Tharn (Lento, from Aliens 3 by Eliot Goldenthal)
Track 2 — Teornis Plots (The Shape of Things to Come, […]
Firstly, thanks to everyone who turned up at the signing on the 14th, which went very well indeed. Still waiting on a signing down south. I think Tor are seeing what I can link up with.
Speaking of Tor, they've put in place a nice new feature of their publicity — authors' A to Zs — rather than bumble about explaining what […]
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 […]
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