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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Essentially my second Big Big Con, the first being SFX Weekender 1 last year. I am still in awe of Tor's continued hospitality, in putting its writer contingent (1) up in a very civilized little cottage by the sea (2). Official duties came down to a mass Tor signing for which the Forbidden Planet people had to entirely remodel […]

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 […]

Obviously the best way is to turn up at a signing, however… For those that can't, for reasons geographical or otherwise, I now have a solution, as promised. Byron Godfrey, who runs the independent bookshop in Garforth where I live, is able to provide signed copies on request, on the basis that I can pop down and sign some for […]