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For the handful of you who’ve not seen any mention of it, The Gollancz Festival will be taking place in London on the 17th and 18th of September and despite a petition from certain authors, I’m going to be there!

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So, I’ve been on holiday and am bewildered to discover the world has not stopped for me. As a result, I’m late about stuff and generally unprepared for reality. In case anyone is interested however, I’ll be at Fantasy in the Court tonight and at Nineworlds on Saturday with ( Read more... )

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First off, congrats to everyone for being shortlisted.

Secondly, here are the figures using my my semi-arbitrary criteria, after which I’ll put some more expanded thoughts.

The Dread Wyrm by Miles Cameron (Gollancz) - 2k ratings (not looking good for me so far, book 1 ( Read more... )

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I was doing a bit of checking back in my files and found the cover copy of a book I’ll almost certainly never write - the third of the Empire of a Hundred Houses (probable) trilogy. Given it’s just sitting there, I thought I might as well post it for those who are curious ( Read more... )

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So Wednesday was a little anniversary for me, assuming my memory can be trusted. Nope, nothing to do with meeting my wife, I dunno when that happened. Who keeps track of such things? There is, however, one date that has stuck in my mine - 16th of March, 2006 - because ( Read more... )

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So my stand-alone novella Fear The Reaper is now on sale - the paperback edition anyway, the ebook’s listed as to be released in a week or two. It was a story I started just as a bit of practice and finished as a nice change of pace between finishing one series and ( Read more... )

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In case anyone’s curious, here’s what I’m up to at Dysprosium - I’ll be around from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon and available to be bought drinks throughout most of that period. You’re very welcome to talk to me too should you want, but I understand that mostly ( Read more... )

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So it’s been ten years this Sunday since I signed my first contract with Gollancz. Which remains somewhat astonishing to me, mostly that I’m still allowed to make stuff up when I should be working a proper job… But anyway I was going to do a giveaway of all my ( Read more... )

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Fatigue: you’ve probably been running on caffeine and adrenaline to finish that last chunk of the book, writing longer and harder than at any other time. Now it’s done you realise you’re knackered; you’ve burned yourself out and the chemicals propping your brain up have ( Read more... )