Eastercon was good overall, even if my usual tendency to party was somewhat curtailed by playing host to a stomach bug for some of the weekend and the need to get back to a hotel-cum-building site several miles from the con every night. My two panels went fairly well, though both were on the day […]
I live in a small town that’s more like a large village. It is the most middling of middle England and is definitely not a place for too much strangeness (‘don’t frighten the horses’). I am on record as being, to paraphrase a certain comedy show, ‘the only fortean in the village’. I was therefore […]
The first rewrite of Guardians of Paradise (1 of 2 I’ll do before I deliver it to Gollancz) is proceeding, albeit slowly. I’m at that difficult two-thirds point, and I knew when I ground out the first draft that the scenery around here was a bit sparse, and the plot a bit naked – points […]
Though I’m still waiting (a little nervously) for the first reviews of Consorts of Heaven, there are some new reviews of the paperback release of Principles of Angels around at the moment (the paperback being the edition with the entire plot laid out on the back cover, ahem). Gary Reynolds has posted a comprehensive review […]
I’ve now got my list of panels for LX2009, this year’s Eastercon. I’ve got a pretty light program this year, with only two official items, both on Sunday: "Start writing NOW" on Sunday at 11:00 – ‘Find out from some professionals why starting to write early will help you succeed in future’. and "Near-future, optimistic […]
Gary Reynolds’ Concept Sci-Fi website has a world exclusive preview of Consorts of Heaven online now. The book’s not out until May, but you can read the first chapter (which looks a lot like fantasy, but isn’t), right here.
The Scillies are one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever visited. We were early enough in the season that there were hardly any other visitors, and although a lot of stuff was ‘closed for refurbishment’, there was one boat a day running to the ‘off islands’, which we took full advantage of. We were […]
I’ve just got the link through for a panel I participated in for the Bookgeeks site. You can read more here.
Today will involve a last push to finish checking the page proofs for Consorts of Heaven, followed by some frantic packing. After that, myself and Beloved are heading off on a well-earned long(ish) break to the Isles of Scilly, one of those places I’ve always wanted to visit (see ’em before they sink…). Though I […]
Yes, it will be (sorry, sorry, I don’t normally do puns but …) May had originally been pencilled in for getting to grips with the final changes before delivery on Guardians of Paradise, but my diary is rapidly filling up with other stuff: as well as the two book signings at the end of the […]