I'm so thrilled for my mate Chris Golden and Mike Mignola - check out their big news here.
I'm reading Baltimore right now and really, you need to be kind to yourself and pick this one up. Not only is it one of the most beautiful books I've ever seen outside the indie press, but the novel itself is enthralling, startling and wonderfully written.
My 30 DAYS OF NIGHT movie novelisation has hit the shelves! There are reliable sightings from across the 'States and Canada, and I'm just waiting for it to pop up in the UK. You can get it from all the usual places, plus amazon.com and amazon.co.uk
DUSK won the British Fantasy Society's August Derleth Award for Best Novel at the British Fantasy Convention yesterday in Nottingham, England. I'm shocked, thrilled, excited and honoured. I'm still on a high. I'm wondering whether I'm going to wake and find it's not all true, but last night I dreamt I'd won a Harley Davidson, so if I do wake up to discover I didn't really win the Award, at least I can go for a burn through the lanes.
I was a shaking wreck when I went up to collect the award from the very wonderful Ramsey Campbell. I was a bit of a shaking wreck afterwards, too, but a bottle of kindly donated red wine, a pint, and a glass of Jameson's saw to that.
Big, big thanks to Bantam Spectra, and especially my brilliant editor Anne Groell.
So, the convention ........ fun as ever, and to talk about it all would take forever. But here are a few of the highlights for me:
Seeing my pal Mark Morris collect the Non-Fiction Award for Cinema Macabre. It's about bloody time!
Meeting up with Des Lewis again for the first time in years (in fact the last time I saw Des was when I was in London with a couple of mates, and I bumped into him totally at random in a pub. How unlikely is that?) Des is great fun to chat to, and I'm glad we had the chance to natter over a few pints.
Dinner on Saturday with Ramsey, Jennie, Chaz, Angus, Mark, Sarah, Adam and Adam's dad .... Fantastic curry, seven bottles of wine and deep chat.
The gorgeous Oriental lady who approached me early Sunday morning when I was outside having a cigarette and asked if she could do my hair.
Mike, Guy, Gary ... thanks for the cigarettes. One day I'll buy my own.
The two panels I had to do on Friday night, starting at 10pm, after having been in the bar for about 6 hours. Oh, hang on, this should be a lowlight, not a highlight. Anyone who could actually hear what I was trying to say, please send me a transcript and I'll send you a free book.
Drinking in the bar until 4am on Sunday morning, being approached by the bar staff and told to go to bed. 'Why?' we asked, to which the response was, 'We haven't got any more beer left.' Apparently the last time this happened was exactly a year ago, which makes me wonder yet again: when will the hotels ever learn?
Watching Steve Volk show a clip from his wonderful TV series Afterlife, looking down into my pint because I'd started to blub, and being relieved when I realised I wasn't the only one. Really, if you haven't watched Afterlife you really should make your life more complete, go out, buy a copy of the box set and watch it immediately.
The Awards ceremony. Master of Ceremonies Pete Crowther (or MC Crowther and the PS Posse, as we preferred to call him) was brilliant, as I knew he would be, and the guest presenters were all entertaining. I was honoured to present the award for Anthology with Chaz Brenchley, who was standing in for Chris Fowler at the time and therefore insisted that he was, in fact, blond and gorgeous.
Winning the award. Bit of a highlight, there.
It was a great convention, as ever. Big thanks to all the organisers, and I'm already looking forward to next year.
Tim
Been two weeks since I posted. 'Is Tim OK?' you might be thinking. You may be wanting to send me presents, thinking I'm ill. Whiskey, for instance or Theakston's Old Peculier. Well, send 'em on ... but fear not, I'm fine.
Actually I've been doing my bit for the British legal system, sitting on a jury for a rather unpleasant, tragic, sad case. I found it a really interesting experience but quite stressful, and I got home each evening quite damn knackered. Two weeks out of the schedule for that, and just when I could have done without it. But they wouldn't let me say 'No' a second time.
My fellow jurors were a great bunch, even the nice lady who referred to horror as a 'cliched genre'. Naturally, she never reads horror. Ho hum.
So, what else have I been up to? Here we go:
I've finished the first draft screenplay of THE EVERLASTING. Although as anyone who's worked with film folk will know, 'finished' is a very subjective term. I'm anticipating many rewrites in this screenplay's future. I'm thrilled with how it's turned out, and I've had a great time writing it. I've got an idea for an original screenplay which I'm tinkering with, and of course, there's the Greatest TV Series Ever Made that Chris Golden and I are still working on ...
My new novel FALLEN has gone into production over at Bantam. Release date for that is spring next year. MIND THE GAP, written with Chris Golden, is hot on its heels.
I've started my fourth fantasy novel for Bantam just this week. Provisionally titled THE ISLAND, I'm already storming into it (quite apt, as the novel opens with a terrible storm), and having a great time visiting Noreela once again. Weird place. Great ale.
I've written a pitch for a collaborative YA trilogy, and I've almost finished a proposal for a YA trilogy of my own as well. I'm very excited about both ideas - they're very different, and that's good. More news about these if and when there is any ...
My novelisation of the movie 30 DAYS OF NIGHT should be hitting the shelves very soon. You'll be able to find it in all the usual bookshops in the USA and on the net, and I'm hoping it may find shelf space in the UK as well! How unique! A UK writer having his books available from UK bookshops!
More soon.
Tim
This from HLQ:
"Horror Literature Quarterly is proud to announce a new story from Tim Lebbon (Fears Unnamed, Dawn, Dusk). Tim's new story is available only to registered subscribers to Horror Literature Quarterly. Registration is easy and free and you will need to be registered before you can read this great story by Tim.
Head on over to HLQ and read The God of Rain by Tim Lebbon and as a registered member you will also be able to download the first issue of HLQ as well as the current issue with stories from Gerard Houarner, Lavie Tidhar, and John Urbanick."
So guys, check it out ... a brand new story (the one I attempted to read aloud at Necon, troubled by drunkenness and saugie smoke). It's one I'm very proud of indeed ... one of the best I've written for a while.
Tim
I'm no big fan of spiders. It's not a phobia as such, I'd just prefer not to have to face the little buggers.
This, therefore, does not work for me. In fact it's very, very wrong, and I'm glad I live in the UK.
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