My Life for the Forseeable Future: Events : Shadows of the Apt

My Life for the Forseeable Future: Events

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 kicking about from then.

12^th February 11am — signing at Waterstones, Broad Street, Reading.

19^th February 2pm — signing at Travelling Man games shop, Leeds

5^th March — time to be confirmed — signing at Waterstones Oxford (1)

12^th March — time to be confirmed — signing alongside Justina Robson, Gary McMahon and Andy Remic at Waterstones, Leeds

25^th-28^th March — Pyrkon in Posnan, Poland, plus possible some sort of signing or similar in Wroclaw, thanks to Rebis for making the arrangements!

25^th-26^th June — Alt Fiction in Derby, more details to come.

(1) if there is more than one Waterstones in Oxford then I don't know which one.

Posted by Adrian Tchaikovsky on January 25th, 2011

Posted in Blog, Events, Home

Tags: conventions, signings

18 Comments

18 comments to “My Life for the Forseeable Future: Events”

Wojciech, January 27th, 2011 at 2:16 pm:

Pyrkon! That is one great information. Hopefully I'll be in Poland that weekend and enjoying the con. It is really one of the best news I got today.
Glen, January 28th, 2011 at 12:32 am:

Well if you find yourself free of a day within the coming weeks, might I suggest to you, so you may suggest to your agents/publisher/whoever necessary, to come to Dublin, Ireland, to discuss the finer points of your naming and lore etc.

Regards,
Glen
enjai, January 28th, 2011 at 11:20 am:

Is there any chance of lurking around Forbidden to get some signatures off you afterwards? Or do they have you chained down in the basement?
Amazon posted out sea watch on Wednesday so I should have it soon, assuming Royal Mail are reliable.
Jannick, January 28th, 2011 at 8:38 pm:

Hi Adrian!

There isn't a small chance that you might do a Belgian stop in the near future, is there? I, for one, would love that 😉
Received my copy of The Sea Watch today (praise to The Book Depository for early deliveries) and after months of anticipation — pre-orderd it in august I think — it feels good to finally cradle it in my arms, lol. It's a hellofa big book once again! Looks good on the shelfs 😉

I saw that the next one, Heirs Of The Blade, is already up for pre-order on TBD. Though I'd love to order my copy already, I noticed that de size listed is different. I admit, I'm a bit of a freak when it comes to my books, so I like them all the same size/edition/whatever… Is it correct that the book is a 234mm istead of the usual 178? If so, I'll have to restrain my urge to buy till the mmpb comes around the corner. At least, I'll try, that is 😛

Keep on writing Adrian, cause you do an excellent job!
Belgian praise,

Jannick.
Ferg, January 28th, 2011 at 10:19 pm:

Amazon has? Mine's due to be dispatched on 5 Feb…

Still, can't complain; the new Joe Abercrombie arrived in the post today and with Sea Watch coming, it's looking like a great reading month!
enjai, January 29th, 2011 at 1:42 am:

I have the new abercromie in my paws so it gets pride of place, but working out the new kinden is going to be hard to resist.
Ferg, January 29th, 2011 at 7:17 pm:

Yeah, just gutted that the new Scott Lynch seems to have been delayed or it would have been a diamond month! Looking forward to cracking on with The Heores so that it's cleared in time for Sea Watch.
Jari Haikonen, January 31st, 2011 at 8:34 pm:

Just bought Shadows of the apt 1 to 4, just by the cover actually.. Didn't know anything about you or your work before stumbling upon them at amazon.
After that I googled up a bit (5mins, tops?) and week later bought the books.
I hope that you keep me entertained through the books and I really look forward to reading them (oh well, after I finish WoT 12 & 13).

Just wanted to give an author feedback how his work is doing around the globe 🙂

Greetings from Finland,
Jari
David, January 31st, 2011 at 8:39 pm:

Have just been talking to the manager at Reading Broad Street Waterstone's and she said she didn't know anything about a signing, but she's going to order in lots of stock 🙂
Adrian Tchaikovsky, February 1st, 2011 at 1:59 am:

Reply @ David. Oh the joys of multi-corporate organisation.
Adrian Tchaikovsky, February 1st, 2011 at 2:01 am:

Reply @ Jannick

Well as with all questions about signings out of the country it comes down to "Is someone willing to ship me out there. I'm an all-purpose performing bear, but someone else has to supply the unicycle.

As for book sizes, yes — by decision of publisher Heirs of the Blade (and, I assume, subsequent volumes) will be slightly bigger than previous books. I quite understood having a pleasantly neat bookshelf myself, so I apologise if this is going to be a problem.
Adrian Tchaikovsky, February 1st, 2011 at 2:04 am:

Reply @ Enjai — if you can catch me while I'm there then I'd be very happy to sign something for you. They do actually generally have me in a tiny back room, so chained in a basement isn't far of the mark. I'm not sure when I'm actually signing there, although "after lunch" seems likely. However , if I can get a better idea of the time I will edit the post to say.
Adrian Tchaikovsky, February 1st, 2011 at 2:05 am:

Reply @ Glen — it would be a pleasure, although having a free day seems about as likely as growing wings at the moment. If you can get a decent following to ask a local bookshop to prompt the publishers/agent/etc then that's more likely to elbow a window in my itinerary.
enjai, February 2nd, 2011 at 10:54 pm:

Hi Adrian

I work 5 mins away from Forbidden Planet so if you get a rough idea of when I can sneak out of work (it's academia, so i can make it up later). I can smuggle a file or hacksaw inside one of the books, if you can't escape their dungeon 🙂
Adrian Tchaikovsky, February 6th, 2011 at 5:34 pm:

As far as the Forbidden Planet business goes I should be there around 1pm on this Friday 11^th and if you get hold of the right staff member (1), make the requisite secret sign and they may allow me out of the dungeon. Alternatively, you may have to go in. There may be trolls.

(1) The one with the big golden question mark over their heads, probably.http://shadowsoftheapt.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php#comments-form
enjai, February 8th, 2011 at 5:17 pm:

thanks for the update. I'll try and turn up around 1:30, that way i hopefully don't disrupt the signing session in the dungeon.
Glen Spratt, February 8th, 2011 at 8:58 pm:

Well I'll get straight to work on that. I would love to meet you. Your books rank in my… Well, for personal reading pleasure… Number 3. Like I genuinely have read your entire series thus far, like… 6 times? Anyway, thank you ever so much for your writing, you're a far more dedicated author than some of the more succesful ones, who write books of a lesser size than yourself, and spend two or three years writing the next one. Off topic right? Well, as I said, I thank you for your dedication and quality. Tisamin is one my favourite fictional characters, and… Oooh, almost let a spoiler out. Either way, thank you for him, and your work.

Regards,
Glen
enjai, February 11th, 2011 at 7:18 pm:

Thanks again for taking time out from the FP signing to have a quick chat and signing my collection. They seemed to be treating you fairly well in their signing dungeon. I like the animal sketches 🙂

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