Shadows of the Apt

is here. And no, I am not GRRM's identical twin. He has eclipsed me in my own post, apparently! And for those who saw this before the correction, no, I have no idea what a "Tog blog" is either.

Damn me, but there is a lot of good stuff at Eastercon, enough that I would need about three of me working in shifts to see all the panels, talks, readings etc. that caught my eye. (Link to schedule here.) My own appearances at the con are: Friday 6^th — 5pm — room 12 — I'll be at […]

Not a plug for Paul Cornell's "Saucer Country" but instead the first breath of wind that heralds the arrival of The Air War. As pointed out by Mark Guest in a comment to the last post, the 8^th book of Shadows of the Apt will be out 2^nd August, meaning I should start thinking about signings for around […]

I've read it's bad practice to blog about how the writing is going, but book 10, man. Seal of the Worm. I had Air War and War Master's Gate pretty well plotted beforehand — the process was quite tight, quite blow by blow. I tend to not set pen to paper (1) until I've got a good […]

… sounds like an avant garde sequel to Eat, Drink, Man, Woman but anyway. John Carter is good if not great. Beautiful visuals, definitely liking the Tharks (Willem Dafoe's (voicing of) Tars Tarkas in particular). Too much earth stuff at the beginning (there's a whole horse-chase bit that surely could have been cut) and the need […]

Next Friday, John Carter opens in cinemas (in the UK anyway). There has been a lot of scuttlebutt (1) circulating about the PR for this film, or lack of same, much of it placing the blame on Disney who are releasing it(2). Certainly, although it's a project that various filmy sort of people have been talking about […]

or suddenly realizing it's been a while since the last post. There is a schedule up now for Alt Fiction, which has some good-looking stuff in it. It's an event I've much enjoyed in past years, and looking good this year too. Somewhat late with this one, but I have a blog post up at the Tor blog here where I basically […]

Picocon is a really nice little convention, for anyone looking for places to be next year. Imperial College put on a very good show — guest talks, panel discussion, destruction of dodgy merchandise with Science, and at no time whatsoever was there combat to the death with fish. Justina Robson and Tricia Sullivan gave a pair of very thought-provoking […]

… grand title for glorified news post. Quick event update: this weekend I’m guest of honour at Picocon alongside serious SF authors Justina Robson and Tricia Sullivan, and am going to have to make some sort of speech. I have no fricking idea what I’m going to say, a state of affairs that may persist until I stand up […]

OK so: the good people from fantasy-faction.com were good enough to collar me for an interview, focusing on the challenges offered by short stories, which interview will presumably be up on their site some time soon, and on the Saturday evening there was a Gollancz (/Orbit?) party that was crammed full (literally) of Names (not literally), […]