A quick post here just to say thanks to everybody who came to the launch of The Call, especially, of course, Oisín McGann, Bella Pearson, Declan from Gill Hess and the fantastic crew of Department 51 in Eason ( Read more... )

Today is the big day!

The Call is now officially available everywhere. Whoever you are, I hope you'll consider buying a copy and that you'll love it more than anyone or anything else in your life. Soon you'll be buying more and more copies until the whole world is denuded of trees and ( Read more... )

This is just a quick reminder that I'll be answering questions on https://www.reddit.com/r/books today from 1pm EDT (that's 6pm in Dublin/London, 7pm Paris, Berlin etc.). I'll hang around for 2 hours if the questions keep coming.
Ask me anything ( Read more... )

Holy Moly! Today is the day that friends from Alaska to Florida, from Newfoundland to California to Hawaii can finally purchase my new book, The Call. I am utterly grateful to anybody who does so. I can keep going at this game only because of the support of so many fine people in all parts of the world ( Read more... )

The Blog Tour for The Call continues today with an interview I did for Bart's Bookshelf. You can read it hereHope you're all well. I'm growing increasingly nervous over publication date, but this is par for the course. Two days until it's on sale in North America and four until the rest of the world can buy it ( Read more... )

Barack Obama has done it, so, even though I'm only the second most powerful person in the world, I feel entitled to do one too. I'm talking about Reddit and its famous AMAs -- ask me anything.

The session starts on August 31 at 1pm EST/6pm Irish Time (BST), and add on another hour if you live in Western Europe. You know how it works.

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As my consciousness crawls back up from the jetlag abyss, it's time to lay down an imperishible digital track of memories. Will this little posting intrigue you? Will it stimulate your imagination, inspiring heights of creativity or lurid dreams? That... is doubtful. You may want to skip this and marvel instead at the myriad properties displayed by ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I will try to write a post about my adventures in the lands that lie far west of Connemara. But more important matters are afoot for now.

One week from today, The Call, will be available for purchase in the US. Two days later, the rest of the universe will have its chance to turn precious, precious money into something with my name on the ( Read more... )

I'll be appearing at WorldCon in Kansas, like a beautiful vision from which none shall e'er look away...

Or... or maybe not. Anyway, my schedule is below. I'm delighted with it and happy that I'll be doing a reading from The Call on the Friday, only a fortnight before the book hits shelves in the US. I'd love to see some of you there!

Young ( Read more... )

Oh, yes, it's been a while. You're right to sneer at me as I get down on my knees and swear that this time it will be better, that I'll blog more often and never fail you again. But we both know different, don't we? Still, this is just who I am and you knew that when you first befriended me, even though everybody said I was no good ( Read more... )