It's been ten years. *Ten years* Empire in Blacks and Gold was published in 2008, this very month*, coming out to what I see in retrospect was actually quite a decent reception. Since when there's been a lot of water under the bridge, and things have been going frankly better than I could ever have […]
"GONNA REC IT!" as seen in Ralph II where the destructuve anti-hero takes up a quiet post in a library and guides people towards appropriate reading material. Anyway, I am up to my eyeballs but want to get some book recs out there before I, hopefully, get the Clarkes shortlist written up (which, owing to a mountainous reading pile, […]
I'm on the very point of heading to Manchester for the Starburst Mediacity (1) film festival, where among other things I may get to guest on an episode of the Brave New Words podcast, but just a brief post on Things I Have Coming Out shortly or later this year. Firstly, I am one of a few contributors to Rebellion's Dracula, Rise […]
2017 has been a good year for me, which goes rather against the tide of crap stuff happening globally. The BFS Holdstock award for The Tiger and the Wolf was particularly nice, and I've got three books out somehow — The Bear and the Serpent, Ironclads, and Dogs of War, which has just made the Guardian "best recent SF" list, […]
At the end of this month I will indeed be at Fantasycon in Peterborough, doing the following hijinks: Friday 7.30 Writing fighting panel Friday 8.30 Dungeons and Disorderly (er… some kind of crowd-run D&D tomfoolery run by that rogue Dave Moore from Rebellion and I have no idea) Saturday 12.30 Worldbuilding panel Saturday 7.30 The New Epics panel Saturday […]
So I am the bear who walks into a bar, which is to say, apologies for the long pause. Mostly I have been finishing off the first draft of the Hyena and the Hawk*, book 3 of Echoes of the Fall (book 2 of which, The Bear and the Serpent, is coming out in February. Also I have been playing Warcraft, […]
I am up to my eyeballs with stuff right at this moment, principally Tiger & Wolf book 3 (tentatively The Hawk and the Hyena? Does that work? I keep thinking "handsaw" Beats "The Owl and the Pussycat" which was the working title for a while) but however I take a break to bring you Tidings of Good Things. Or possibly […]
Or TFW you can't come up with a clever blog title (1). I have not done bloggery as I should, owing to other stuff to have been doing (25% through The Hawk and the (some other animal) as I write) and so a number of separate posts on stuff I've stumbled over and liked are going to be Frankensteined the crap […]
So the tigers and the wolves have been let out of the cage and rushed off into the world. I don't know how this sort of thing affects most authors. For myself, I hit an absolute high buzz when I get to do something properly Authorial — a convention, say, or especially a launch, and then there's a crash twice as […]
In August, Tor.com will be publishing my novel Spiderlight, which will be my first US-side release for… a long time, actually. It will also be available in the UK, and possible elsewhere. Possibly I'll do a signing tour of Mirkwood. The cover for the book has just been revealed and I give you it here. This is not […]
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