Welcome to the Website!
I know it's been said elsewhere, but as this is my first posting on my brand spanking new website, I'll say it again: welcome to my website! Come in, sit down, relax, pour yourself a nice cup of tea...
Actually this first posting is a bit of a weird one, because although I'm working like a nutter at the moment and have got tons of news, the frustrating thing is... I'm not allowed to tell you most of it! All I can say is that I've been offered a couple of writing projects in recent weeks that I'm dead excited about, but as it's still all very hush-hush at present, and as the projects have to go through various... um... processes before everything is cut and dried, I'm not yet in a position to say anything. Look, I know this is all rather vague and annoying, but think of it as a cliffhanger. Rest assured, as soon as I'm allowed to, I'll be bellowing my news from the rooftops!
Okay, here's some stuff I am allowed to tell you:
I'm currently 40,000 words in to my new novel, The Deluge, which is due to be delivered to my editor, Don D'Auria, at Leisure Books by the end of January, and which should be published some time late next year.
Night Visions 12, edited by Kealan Patrick Burke and published by Subterranean Press, should be out within the next month or so. I've got three stories in this - What Nature Abhors, Feeding Frenzy and The Story of April and Her Colours - alongside work by my old chum, Simon Clark, and P.D. Cacek, who I met briefly at last year's World Horror Convention in New York. It's been a long-held ambition of mine to appear in a volume of Night Visions, so I'm chuffed to bits about this.
Those splendid chaps at Humdrumming have just released a lovely new edition of my first novel, Toady, which has a new introduction by yours truly. Head honcho Guy Adams's paperback copy of Stitch is apparently being torn asunder and fed into a scanner as we speak, in the hope that we can have a new edition of the book ready to launch at the World Horror Convention in Toronto at the end of March.
My first horror column for the official British Fantasy Society magazine, Prism, has been delivered and should be posted out to BFS members within the next few weeks.
And that's about it - though I've just decided on a whim that I'm going to conclude each posting by telling you about something I've bought recently.
Books: I've just bought The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 17, edited by Stephen Jones (an essential annual purchase) and The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke (loved her first novel, the elegant and beautiful Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell).
Music: Just bought Lily Allen's album Alright, Still after seeing her on Jonathan Ross the other week (I usually like louder stuff, but now and again I'll buy something poppy, as long as it's got a bit of an edge to it), and Screamadelica by Primal Scream (one of those albums I've been meaning to buy for ages, but never got round to; I finally took the plunge when I found it cheap in Borders).
Okay, till next time, look after yourselves and don't let the bastards grind you down.
Actually this first posting is a bit of a weird one, because although I'm working like a nutter at the moment and have got tons of news, the frustrating thing is... I'm not allowed to tell you most of it! All I can say is that I've been offered a couple of writing projects in recent weeks that I'm dead excited about, but as it's still all very hush-hush at present, and as the projects have to go through various... um... processes before everything is cut and dried, I'm not yet in a position to say anything. Look, I know this is all rather vague and annoying, but think of it as a cliffhanger. Rest assured, as soon as I'm allowed to, I'll be bellowing my news from the rooftops!
Okay, here's some stuff I am allowed to tell you:
I'm currently 40,000 words in to my new novel, The Deluge, which is due to be delivered to my editor, Don D'Auria, at Leisure Books by the end of January, and which should be published some time late next year.
Night Visions 12, edited by Kealan Patrick Burke and published by Subterranean Press, should be out within the next month or so. I've got three stories in this - What Nature Abhors, Feeding Frenzy and The Story of April and Her Colours - alongside work by my old chum, Simon Clark, and P.D. Cacek, who I met briefly at last year's World Horror Convention in New York. It's been a long-held ambition of mine to appear in a volume of Night Visions, so I'm chuffed to bits about this.
Those splendid chaps at Humdrumming have just released a lovely new edition of my first novel, Toady, which has a new introduction by yours truly. Head honcho Guy Adams's paperback copy of Stitch is apparently being torn asunder and fed into a scanner as we speak, in the hope that we can have a new edition of the book ready to launch at the World Horror Convention in Toronto at the end of March.
My first horror column for the official British Fantasy Society magazine, Prism, has been delivered and should be posted out to BFS members within the next few weeks.
And that's about it - though I've just decided on a whim that I'm going to conclude each posting by telling you about something I've bought recently.
Books: I've just bought The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 17, edited by Stephen Jones (an essential annual purchase) and The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke (loved her first novel, the elegant and beautiful Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell).
Music: Just bought Lily Allen's album Alright, Still after seeing her on Jonathan Ross the other week (I usually like louder stuff, but now and again I'll buy something poppy, as long as it's got a bit of an edge to it), and Screamadelica by Primal Scream (one of those albums I've been meaning to buy for ages, but never got round to; I finally took the plunge when I found it cheap in Borders).
Okay, till next time, look after yourselves and don't let the bastards grind you down.