Shadows of the Apt

Alt Fiction was a grand success — both as author and as fanboy (and the sentiment "I'm fanboy first and writer second" seemed to be generally seconded by everyone that I met). As you can see from the schedule in the previous post, there was something for pretty much everyone, and I'm very grateful to Alex Davis […]

On the 25^th and 26^th June I shall be at Alt Fiction doing frankly a load of stuff at Derby Quad – it looks like one of the best convention line-ups I’ve done, with all manner of sundry panels, workshops and casting of pods(1). Therefore I cordially invite you to: —        11am-12pm Saturday 25^th in Cinema 2 – I’m […]

Something special this time — Jaroslaw is the translator who has worked on books 5 and 6 for Rebis in Poland, and gave me these cartoons (and more) when I met him at Pyrkon. I've been remiss in holding onto them until now without posting them on site, so here is the first batch.

As I can now consider myself an established fantasy author, it's time to start delaying release of my books to annoy people. Seriously, though, I've just been told that Heirs of the Blade will be coming out in October this year, not August. I did wonder if we were pushing the envelope release-wise, as I hadn't seen the […]

I've been getting my teeth into some more short story writing before the bell tolls and it's round one for the next actual book (book 9, title still up in the air, unfortunately (1)). This new offering is The Last Ironclad and, as the title suggests, it's a direct follow-on from Ironclads, which you should read […]

Some Things. I've had the Alt Fiction schedule through (first draft anyway) — this is 25–26 June 2011 at the Derby Quad. I'll put up a dedicated post to it, but the schedule looks interesting enough that I will hopefully be in the audience for most of it, and I have a couple of nice panels myself — one […]

So: Camber Sands — London — Reading — Leeds — also Leeds — Poznan — Wroclaw — Oxford. Probably not the weirdest signing tour anyone's ever done, but fun nonetheless. Thank you to everyone who turned up at any of the above (1) especially those who made it to the Q&A and talk at Pyrkon, […]

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 […]