I appear to have Stuff On already for the next few months, and so:

1. I will be asking pertinent questions of Iain M Banks at the Morley Literature Festival on the 15th October (next week). All a bit short notice and the actual event was fully booked out before I was even signed up, and given Mr B's portfolio, not surprising. If anyone has any pertinent questions they would like me to ask Mr Banks, then by all means stick them up and I'll try to fit them in. An upshot of this was an advance copy of his new Surface Detail which you should all go out and buy as soon as it's on the shelves.

2. As noted before, Other Worlds is on 6th November at Derby Quad, and I will be doing some Things there, I think they told me what, but it slips my mind. Perhaps it says on the link. I should probably check at some point.

3. The 2011 SFX Weekender on 4–5 February 2011 is also something I'm pretty damn sure I was asked to go to again. A brief perusal of emails confirms that, yes I was back in June, which indicates almost preternatural organization on someone's part. It was cracking fun this year, so I have high hopes. This will also be the weekend of the release of The Sea Watch if I have my dates right, so it's a good thing to pitch up at for the very first signed copies.

4. I would hope to be doing some signings in Leeds and also either Reading or maybe Oxford this time, in the following weekends of February, and maybe I should start trying to get that sorted out well ahead, this time round.

5. On the 12th March there will be what I think is the very first Leeds Science Fiction & Fantasy event, certainly new enough that the website's still in development. It will be in Leeds. More than that, not sure yet, further news as I have it.