Mar 24 2011
If you haven’t already heard about the Genre for Japan auction, where have you been the last few days? Fantastic lots, many of them pure unobtainium, including critiques, artwork, stuff signed by really cool people like Neil Gaiman and Joe Abercrombie, your name in a book, Stephen Deas to do with as you will (more …
Mar 13 2011
It’s amazing what you find when you’re poking around your website stats on a rainy Saturday evening when there’s nothing on the TV. Flicking through the “Referrers” list, which shows me where people have come from when they land on my site, I found a site I recognised: Meulenhoff Boekerij, parent of my Dutch publisher …
Mar 11 2011
Always a daunting moment, reading the first review of your first book. Will it be good, filled with effusive praise about my world building, my fascinating characters and original plot? Or will it be “D-. Must try harder.” Judge for yourself, over at the Wertzone. I’ll wait. . . . . . . [whistles tunelessly] …
Mar 03 2011
I can’t believe my eyes – I must be dreaming… — Jack Skellington A parcel just arrived here at Cooper Towers. A thick, heavy parcel, bound in sticky tape and bearing the blazon of none other than Orion Books. So, naturally, I opened it – or tried to. Application of fingernails, scissors and finally brute …