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Sunday 28th February, 2016

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Yeah, I skipped a week. There are going to be a few weekends like that with still having a house about 70 miles away from where I currently live that I’m hoping to sell. Anyway, on to things you may care about.

The Otherworld Gazetteer [External Link] is back up and running. I’m thinking of opening it up to other people and / or shifting it to a more obviously wiki format and host (which would then leave me with some wordpress space to work out what I want to do with, but that’s a problem for another day). If any of that world-sharing appeals, please get in touch and let me know.

I was spotted at the 5th Sheffield Social and there are photos of me on Facebook to prove it. For a change, someone else managed to get the drop on the Mousie postcard and you can see a picture of Mousie out and about on Adele Wearing’s twitter feed here: [External Link]

I have a couple of Mousie photos with some books stacked up but I’m waiting until after the official launch party for African Monsters on March 3rd at Forbidden Planet, London to put them out. And, yes, I shall be taking Mousie if she remembers to get into my backpack.

And my last thing to mention: Adele and I did a book count and I’ve made my Ink Plan-related donation to National Autism Society (NAS) [External Link]

Monday 15th February, 2016

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Happy Valentine’s Day for yesterday. I hope you spent it either with someone you love (not necessarily romantically) or doing something you love.

The web-site’s been a bit odd due to host updates the last few days so the update was delayed this week but here’s the short and sweet catch up:

  1. I was a little too sickly last weekend to post an update but I did get my latest post up at The Finishing School [External Link] on Wednesday 3rd February.
  2. I’ve sorted out my latest batch of Otherworld Gazetteer [External Link] posts. They’ve gone live tomorrow and I’ll be scheduling some spotlight tweets to run Tuesdays and Thursdays for the individual posts.
  3. Next week I shall be at Sheffield pub-meet-y social thing (more here)
  4. In a fortnight, I shall be at the official launch party for African Monsters on March 3rd at Forbidden Planet, London.

There. All caught up!

Monday 1st February, 2016

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A slightly delayed update due to running out of spoons (a reference explained here, with links to the original explanation using spoons) a couple of times last week, including the weekend. In positive news, I have a post for The Finishing School [External Link] due on Wednesday.

Part of that was making it over to the York / BSFA social (which I hadn’t been sure I would make, so didn’t link on site. The next similar thing will be the Sheffield social (more here) in February and I hope to make it there, rest of life allowing. Don’t forget there’s an official launch party for African Monsters on March 3rd at Forbidden Planet, London.

Sunday 25th January, 2015

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Yesterday was the first Sheffield Fantasy and Science Fiction Social Club meet [External Link] – and it went very well. We were a decent sized crowd, everyone laughed in the right places when I did my reading from 25 Ways To Kill A Werewolf (“Pick a number between 1 and 25!”), and Adrian Tchaikovsky [External Link] gave us an exclusive advance reading of his book out in February (Guns of The Dawn, on Goodreads here: [External Link]). New people were met, books were raffled, and swords were discussed. Basically, I had a lot of fun.

Which is just as well because I survived a rather nasty week at work to make it there! Never mind, there’s a new week coming.

In pack news: This week I’ll be putting up a page for my new-to-me Hellhound Dora (yes, The Explorer. I picked the name for a reason). She found me just before Christmas and so far nobody has stepped forward as her original owner. She’s still unchipped but that will change with a trip to the vets this week when I get her chipped and innoculated. I am now officially outnumbered and outvoted by dogs…

Sunday 18th January, 2015

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Right, I missed a week. Basically because real life got in the way. Nothing major (I can’t even remember what I got up to) but I didn’t get around to writing an update.

So that means I didn’t get around to announcing / reminding people about:

So, see you on Saturday in Sheffield or see you here on Sunday!

Sunday 12th October, 2014

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REMINDER 1: 25 Ways To Kill A Werewolfis available from Fox Spirit Books [External Link]. The first of those links will (eventually) get you to the UK Amazon but other “local” Amazon sites should also carry it. The ebooks (epub and mobi files) are now also available from Spacewitch [External Link].

REMINDER 2: I’d appreciate some more reviews – on Amazon or the Goodreads page [External Link] or the Booklikes page [External Link] – or anywhere else that does liking books! (And if you think of anywhere I should be spreading the news about my book-baby, please let me know.)

For those of you who remember the mention of the Fox Spirit Book’s “European Monsters” (back at the end of December last year), here’s a quick update. The title it’ll be published under is The FS Books of Monsters – Europe and you can find the line up of writers and artists here: [External Link]. This information has been available for a while but what hasn’t been is… I have seen the stories and (most of the) artwork and it’s awesome. Admittedly, as co-editor with Margrét Helgadóttir [External Link], I’m somewhat biased but this project is shaping up really well and I think you’re going to be blown away.

Also, you may notice the use of “books”. That wasn’t a typo. There will be more!

Somewhat related to both 25 Ways and the Monster books, there’s two new writing events on my list: the BFS / BSFA York Pubmeet #2 (also associated with the Super Relaxed Fantasy Club but titles have been shortened) and the Sheffield FSF Social #1. The former is in November and I hope to make it. The latter is in January and I don’t have much of a choice as I’ll be reading from 25 Ways (nominations for prefered method-to-be-read accepted in the comments). Also reading will be Adrian Tchaikovsky [External Link], one of the contributors to the European Monster book, although I expect he’ll be reading from somethig else! This is all getting a bit incestuous, isn’t it?

Finally, the Sunday Stories. Last week’s was The Modern Pentathlete and this week’s is How Otter Made The World, a fantasy flash piece of about 600 words that’s also suitable for children.