Bookgeeks have published a reasonable review of Consorts of Heaven. And elsewhere on the internet, I’ve discovered (well, been pointed at) the short promotional film I participated in along with other more famous Gollancz authors. It’s not as bad as I thought it would be, though Beloved says he can tell how terrified I was […]
Short stories are a bit like buses right now, as I have another one out this week. It’s available for free in both broadcast and text format for a limited period over at Sci Phi Journal. High Ground is a rather different story from Angel Dust, as I was using it to explore my own […]
The US e-zine ‘Labyrinth Inhabitant’ have just published Angel Dust, one of the prequel short stories I wrote when I was working on Principles of Angels. You can currently read it for free here, though I don’t know how long that will be true (so check it out now, as they say). In other news, […]
It appears that the originally scheduled release date for Consorts of Heaven of 21st May has gone the way of many deadlines, and slipped. The official release date is now June the 11th. My publishers will, however, be pulling out all the stops to ensure there are plenty of copies available for the two signings […]
Damn, but that week went fast; time spent at Portmeirion always does. I didn’t get those plot walks I was planning on, partly due to the variable weather, but mainly due to bone-idleness on my part. Not that I was entirely slacking – over the course of the week I critiqued a novel, wrote a […]
I’ve finally completed the initial rewrite of Guardians of Paradise and despatched it off to my long-suffering beta-readers. Now I wait for a couple of weeks then go back and rewrite again, taking into account their comments, as well as tidying up what is still a somewhat messy ms. Whilst it took longer than I’d […]
A month today, Consorts of Heaven will come out in hardback and trade paperback. Two days after that, on the 23rd of May, I’ll be doing a signing at Little Green Dragon bookshop in Alton, Hants, from 1.30 to 2.30, after which I’ll be nipping over the road to the pub for a less formal […]
I can’t plot like Tim Powers. I wish I could, given some of the amazing books he’s produced, but the whole meticulous research, painstaking planning and detailed outlining thing doesn’t work for me. I did ask him how, given he knows exactly what’s going to happen (and when, and to whom) before he writes the […]
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 […]