Shadows of the Apt

I've been getting my teeth into some more short story writing before the bell tolls and it's round one for the next actual book (book 9, title still up in the air, unfortunately (1)). This new offering is The Last Ironclad and, as the title suggests, it's a direct follow-on from Ironclads, which you should read […]

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 […]

So: Camber Sands — London — Reading — Leeds — also Leeds — Poznan — Wroclaw — Oxford. Probably not the weirdest signing tour anyone's ever done, but fun nonetheless. Thank you to everyone who turned up at any of the above (1) especially those who made it to the Q&A and talk at Pyrkon, […]

Here is first blush at what I'm doing for Pyrkon next weekend: On Saturday 26^th: 2:00 pm — Adrian Tchaikovsky — meeting with the author place: Aula 4:00 pm — Creation of TRULY Original Fantasy World — utopia or a matter of imagination. Adrian Tchaikovsky place: Aula After that there is a 'signing time'. On Monday, […]

Very brief post to confirm the Oxford Waterstones signing on the 9^th April will be a 2pm. Tomorrow for the Leeds Waterstone alongside Robson, Remic & McMahon, please do come along if you can. End of the month is Pyrkon over in Wroclaw, Poland. I'm doing a talk. Apparently. This is a bit new, and it will also be kind […]

A little jig around but: 12^th March — 11am-1pm signing at Leeds Waterstones in excellent company, vis Justina Robson (last book of her Quantum Gravity series just out!), and Gary McMahon and Andy Remic who write for Angry Robot. 9^th April — signing at Oxford Waterstones — time to be confirmed. This is the 5^th March […]

Essentially my second Big Big Con, the first being SFX Weekender 1 last year. I am still in awe of Tor's continued hospitality, in putting its writer contingent (1) up in a very civilized little cottage by the sea (2). Official duties came down to a mass Tor signing for which the Forbidden Planet people had to entirely remodel […]

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 […]

Somewhat late, but here we are. Again, if you haven't read the book yet, moderate to high spoiler warnings. Track 1 — Uctebri has the Shadow Box (The Daleks, from Dr Who series 1 by Murray Gold) Track 2 — The Merchant Companies depart (Farewells, the Storm, from Rome by Jeff Beal) Track 3 — The Flower […]

Another very brief post, but some odd and welcome flowers of end 2010/start 2011: Michael Moorcock has written a Dr Who novel. Not only that but the jacket text of The Coming of the Terraphiles suggests that it involves both LRP(/re-enactment) and the Eternal Champion (Arrow of Law, a certain Captain Cornelius…). Haven't read it yet but […]