Wonderbooks! Cheltenham! Interviews!
Another smorgasbord of news items for your delectation. Firstly, I see that Jeff Vandermeer has announced his latest publication, Wonderbook, a unique project that I suppose you could call an illustrated guide to writing speculative fiction, with contributions from a whole range of big figures in the genre, including Gaiman, Le Guin, Martin, Beukes, and […]
Legend(s)
Limited posting round these parts as I’ve got my head proper buried in editing Half a King at the moment, as well as planning the next book and wrangling some cover concepts. However, I bring you news… I’ve got a story in a forthcoming anthology, ‘Legends: Stories in Honour of David Gemmell’. The clue is […]
Friday Night Lights
If you’d told me a couple of years back that a series about a High School Football team in a Texas small town would have become one of my favourite TV series of all time, right up there alongside stuff like The Wire, Deadwood, the Shield, Breaking Bad and the first two seasons of Battlestar […]
Editing, and More
The dream with this new trilogy was to gloriously complete a draft of the second book and a detailed plan for the third by the end of the year, therefore 6 or 7 months before publication of the first book, leaving time enough to edit the first book in the light of all I had […]
The Blade Itself Issue 4
The fourth issue of The Blade Itself Graphic Novel is now available on Comixology, featuring Mercers, Magi, Murders, and much, much more, and complete with guided view and a package of assorted pencils and inks. A paper collection of the first four issues should be available very shortly. More news as I have it…
Half a King US
There were a couple of minor contractual wrinkles to iron out, but I can now reveal that Half a King and its two sequels will be published in the US and Canada by none other than Del Rey. Their announcement is over here. Jonathan Lyons and Ginger Clarke at Curtis Brown negotiated the deal with […]
The First Law Reread
One of my favourite sf&f bloggers, Justin Landon, is doing a reread of the entire First Law over at Tor.com. This week there’s a little introduction, some discussion of the series’ place in the gritty fantasy pantheon (or Grimdark, if you prefer that term), the controversial assertion that I’m older than Brent Weeks and less […]
Celsius Festival 2013
I was invited to Celsius 232 once again this year and enjoyed a wonderful few days in the temperate Asturian climate, writing, eating, signing books, and kicking back with some writers I knew a little, like Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Paul McAuley, Chris Priest, Ian Watson and David Moody, and some that I didn’t like Nina […]
Recent TV
Seems like a while since I reviewed my recent TV watching. Recent in my having watched it, mark you, not necessarily it having been made recently. What have we had…? The Returned – A french-import supernatural thriller in which people known to have died suddenly reappear, remembering nothing, in a small french town, with shattering […]
Celsius, and Holiday
I am off on my holidays as of tomorrow, so posting level and reaction to email will probably be even worse than usual. Following that, I’m going to be back at the Celsius festival in Aviles, Asturias, Northern Spain for a second year running, from 31st July-3rd August, this time in the company of Lauren […]
