Shadows of the Apt

Coming out of a year that was something of a personal triumph and a global disaster it's hard to know how to summarise. Books were perpetrated, and both Spiderlight and The Tiger and the Wolf have turned up on some best-of lists, which is always nice, as well as more love for Children of Time, Guns of the Dawn and Shadows of the Apt. […]

Well crap, I did not get to see many films this year, owing to authorial and familial commitments, and so this is of a necessity a bit of a shotgun review. I did get to see a couple of Marvel films, about which I've been positive, and positive I remain. I speak of course of Captain America: Civil War and Doctor Strange. I agree […]

So I am the bear who walks into a bar, which is to say, apologies for the long pause. Mostly I have been finishing off the first draft of the Hyena and the Hawk*, book 3 of Echoes of the Fall (book 2 of which, The Bear and the Serpent, is coming out in February. Also I have been playing Warcraft, […]

Firstly, apologies for leaving a whole load of posts pending that should have been approved. Let me know if there were any I missed. Thank you to everyone for all the congratulations. I have also just finished recording a guest slot for Paul Cornell's The Cornell Collective podcast which I imagine will be up soon. Now, onto the main business: I am in […]

So, it appears to be inarguable now that this happened: My very own beautiful Children of Time has won the Clarkes this year. Please do tune in to those stalwarts Barry and Dave at Geek Syndicate, here, for a skipthrough of the ceremony itself, including my horribly garbled acceptance speech and a spectacularly rabbit-in-headlamps interview after. It's probably useful […]

The paperback edition of The Tiger and the Wolf is now on the shelves, and so I'm following my own recent tradition of dream-casting the not-at-all-happening movie of the film.Shadows of the Apt and Children of Time, would have difficulty translating to screen, I think — the former because of the high-concept axioms of the fantasy work, Art, […]

Spiderlight is out today! And getting some very nice reviews, for which I and all the little spiders are properly grateful. The book gets a mention in Leah Schnelbach's "fiction's greatest spiders" article here (can you believe someone beat me to that article?), I sneak into Barnes & Noble's new release list (along with Emma Newman's new Split Worlds novel, about which […]

I am up to my eyeballs with stuff right at this moment, principally Tiger & Wolf book 3 (tentatively The Hawk and the Hyena? Does that work? I keep thinking "handsaw" Beats "The Owl and the Pussycat" which was the working title for a while) but however I take a break to bring you Tidings of Good Things. Or possibly […]

Or TFW you can't come up with a clever blog title (1). I have not done bloggery as I should, owing to other stuff to have been doing (25% through The Hawk and the (some other animal) as I write) and so a number of separate posts on stuff I've stumbled over and liked are going to be Frankensteined the crap […]

I have actually been sitting on a post for a while — basically my usual Clarkes shortlist writeup, except it now feels super weird to post it, even though it amounts to little more than a "these books are awesome do go read." So… no idea if that will ever get posted. But they are all awesome […]