Shadows of the Apt

Firstly, I am very happy to present a complete (to date) set of maps for the world of the Insect-kinden here — and when I say complete, I include a map of the Commonweal, as a sneak preview from Heirs of the Blade. For the news, very briefly: Rebis, one of my all-time favourite publishers, have picked up the rights to the […]

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 […]

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 […]

This is about as rough as things get, and may be only inside my own head, but: 1^st weekend of February, 4–6^th, is the SFX Weekender, so I'll be there doing stuff, and probably also signing. 2^nd weekend, 12–13^th should see me in Reading or Oxford or both, or something like that, probably on the Saturday, […]

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 15^th 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, […]

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 I take […]

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 […]

Yes, yes, not been posting much recently, but busy with the book, don'tcherknow. Or books, to be precise. Book 5 (The Scarab Path), which has been running a bit late, has finally been packed off, and I won't see it again until it's actually in print (release date start August). Book 6 (The Sea Watch) has come back […]