Here's a great review for FALLEN, recently posted at Dread Central by Johnny Butane. Thanks Johnny!
And close on the heels of the FALLEN cover comes this, the Allison & Busby cover for my horror novel THE EVERLASTING. This one (along with the hardback of FALLEN) is due out at the beginning of August. I think it's very spooky, and A&B have done a wonderful job.
I'm so excited about seeing these books hits the shelves in the UK - been waiting for this for a long time! - and there'll be more news soon about signings & other events.
So here's my cover the for Allison & Busby UK hardback edition of FALLEN, out in just a few short weeks. Yes, the perceptive among you will notice a slight similarity with the US edition ... but it's redesigned, and I think it looks gorgeous. There's a quote still to go on the cover, so it'll look different again on the finished product.
Here's a great new review for FALLEN. Really, if you haven't bought it yet, I want to know why...
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The book launch for the UK hardback edition of FALLEN, along with the mass market paperback of THE EVERLASTING (both from Allison & Busby) will be at Abergavenny Bookshop on Saturday August 2nd, followed - if you're so inclined - by a couple of pints at the Hen & Chickens. More details coming soon!
And they act like this is a surprise?
Spent an enjoyable day yesterday at the Univerity of Glamorgan where they held a day dedicated to all things Fantastic. I met up with a load of old friends and made some new ones, bought and sold some books, then rounded off with an excellent Chinese meal with Steve Volk and his friend Piers, a fascinating and charming Space Historian. Hats off to Louise from Academi who organised the whole shebang - it was fantastic! Same time next year!
Before the meal we had a walk around Llandaff Cathedral, who I noticed are launching an appeal for £1,500,000. Hmm, I thought, starting a school-building project in Africa? Perhaps sending aid to Burma? But no. They want a new organ. £1.5m. There's lots I should say but ... words fail me.
This morning at breakast, my daughter's tooth fell out into her scrambled egg. Me, I'm a hard horror writer ... and I almost fainted. Yeah, bet that shatters your illusions of me, eh?
So it looks as if even the aliens are coming to the conference tomorrow (see previous posting)! Should be a good turn out, from Cardiff, Newport, and Betelgeuse.
I'm taking part in a great conference this coming Saturday at the University of Glamorgan, Treforest. It's called 'space time machine monster', and it's a celebration of all aspects of fantastic creativity, from short stories through to novels, screenplays and artwork.
My own contribution is called Fright Write, during which I'll be reading from my forthcoming UK release The Everlasting, and chatting about the horror genre today.
Also attending will be Philip Gross, Steve Lockley, Rhys Hughes, Jasper Fforde, Catherine Fisher, Steve Volk, Andrew Cartmel and many others.
There are a million worse ways you could be spending your Saturday, and it's only a fiver to come in for the day. There's a coffee shop in the venue, and you get to buy books. Diary. Enter. Now.
I'm currently proofing the two novels which Allison & Busby will be publishing in the UK on August 11th. FALLEN will be out in hardback, and it's fun reading that one again, even though I proofed it for Bantam maybe six months ago. THE EVERLASTING is due out in paperback, and I haven't read this one in a couple of years! It's a strange process sometimes, re-reading your own work, but as well as trying not to be hyper-critical, there's also value in doing so. It's all part of the learning process, and in fact I've had a couple of ideas for new novels and stories come to me while reading these older ones.
Talking of Allison & Busby, I'll soon be ready to announce the UK launch of these two books. It'll be local to me, early August, and will involve books and beer, of course. Watch this space for an announcement very soon.
Finished a horror western today called ANOTHER HOPE, for an anthology that hasn't been announced yet. So ... I can't announce it.
And I know we're probably late to the party, but my wife and I have just started watching Season 3 of LOST. When Season 2 ended we were pretty ambivalent about it, but 6 episodes into Season 3, I'm loving it as much as I ever have before. Maybe it's because I know for sure that there's now an end in sight (although still a couple of years down the road). And love it or hate it, you have to admire the screenwriting ... how they can make every episode relevant, and sometimes shocking in its revelations, is just brilliant.
My story Falling Off the World is online now at the FantasyBookSpot.com It's there as an exclusive extract from the forthcoming Second Humdrumming Book of Horror stories, and as editor Ian Alexander Martin says, "it's typical of the other stories in the book as this year's selection tends more to the 'odd feeling of something not being quite right' rather than last year's more obvious use of shock." That's his way of saying my story is a bit weird. Please check it out!
Things are steaming ahead towards publication of FALLEN and THE EVERLASTING in the UK on 11th August. I'll hopefully be able to share covers with you soon, and there'll also be news of launches and signing events. I'm very excited about these books ... watch this space or more news.
The long list of recommendations is out now for the British Fantasy Awards (check here to view), and I'm delighted to see several of my titles on there. In the Novel category there's DAWN and THE EVERLASTING, in novellas there's AFTER THE WAR, and in short stories, 'Discovering Ghosts', the most difficult and painful story I've ever written, from Postscripts #10. No guarantee any of them will be nominated, of course, but it's nice to see them there.
Had a very nice weekend ... gardening, playing with the kids, visiting family, and on Saturday evening Tracey and I walked a couple of miles to a country pub for a few drinks and a fantastic meal. Wonderful.
Back to work with a vengeance today, with hopefully a couple of projects I'll be able to announce officially soon.
I've been interviewed by The Dragon Page, and chatted to the guys there about my new fantasy novel FALLEN. Listen to it here! Had a lot of fun, and it was enjoyable chatting about the writing process and the world of Noreela itself.
John Joseph Adams has posted a new interview with me at SciFi Wire.
Check it out here.
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