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The Air War
AN EMPRESS DEMANDS HER BIRTHRIGHT All is in turmoil as the world moves towards war. In Solarno, the spies watch each other and ready their knives, while Myna sees the troops muster at its border and...
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Empire in Black and Gold
All is in turmoil as the world moves towards war. In Solarno, the spies watch each other and ready their knives, while Myna sees the troops muster at its border and emotions run high as it vows never...
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State of the Nation — 2015
It's been an eventful year. It' s only November, admittedly, so I guess it's been an eventful 9 months, but seriously I feel as though I've burned the midnight oil twice as brightly at both ends this...
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January Cartoon and more bad art
So it's January, and though I'm working up a post about non-human characters, it isn't ready yet, so here's some art. Firstly, a cartoon to kick the year off. A bit of Harry Potter in fact. I have...
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A Very Inhuman New Year To You All!
So I feel I've been putting in the hours on my inhuman characters, what with the protagonists of Children of Time and this year's release of Spiderlight from Tor UK, as well as more human examples like...
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Tiger Wolf Launcharama
The Tiger and the Wolf comes out in about three weeks, and I shall be part of an Authorial Omnithon at London's Forbidden Planet on the 12th of February BUT THAT IS NOT ALL! As well as the chance to...
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Bard to the bone
Who’s up for a bit of culture? Specifically Shakespeare! (waits) Anyone left? Or was everyone poisoned by tedious literature classes? My confession: I love Shakespeare. I used to act(1) in an amateur...
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Spiderlight cover reveal
In August, Tor.com will be publishing my novel Spiderlight, which will be my first US-side release for… a long time, actually. It will also be available in the UK, and possible elsewhere. Possibly I’ll...
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Cleaning up after the Tigers
So the tigers and the wolves have been let out of the cage and rushed off into the world. I don’t know how this sort of thing affects most authors. For myself, I hit an absolute high buzz when I get to...
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Shape Challenge February
Further to previous posts about wanting to get back into the drawing game, I discovered a rather neat little artist challenge on Twitter known as #ShapeChallenge. This is a diversion helmed by Studio...
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Cartoon for March
Busybusy with secret projects, but here’s a thing to be going on with.
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Little Gems
One of the recurrent topics at cons is whether e-publishing will impact on the publication of shorter fiction. Thus far: not so much insofar as I’ve seen. Although it is now quite possible to, say,...
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Shape Challenges: March
Just a few of my #shapechallenge doodles from March. In other news; just about to start the third and last Tiger & Wolf book. Proper post soon, hopefully.
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The Time of the Children is Nigh!
I regret to announce that I won’t be doing my annual readthrough of the Clarkes shortlist this year because of a thorny little conflict of interest. It appears that someone did, after all, think of the...
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Hold onto your Holdstocks!
I have actually been sitting on a post for a while – basically my usual Clarkes shortlist writeup, except it now feels super weird to post it, even though it amounts to little more than a “these books...
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Random Assortment of Good Stuff
Or TFW you can’t come up with a clever blog title (1). I have not done bloggery as I should, owing to other stuff to have been doing (25% through The Hawk and the (some other animal) as I write) and so...
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Shiny and New – stuff coming this year
I am up to my eyeballs with stuff right at this moment, principally Tiger & Wolf book 3 (tentatively The Hawk and the Hyena? Does that work? I keep thinking “handsaw” Beats “The Owl and the...
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Does Whatever a Spider Might
Spiderlight is out today! And getting some very nice reviews, for which I and all the little spiders are properly grateful. The book gets a mention in Leah Schnelbach’s “fiction’s greatest spiders”...
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Casting Call : The Tiger and the Wolf
The paperback edition of The Tiger and the Wolf is now on the shelves, and so I’m following my own recent tradition of dream-casting the not-at-all-happening movie of the film.Shadows of the Apt and...
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Arthur C Clarke Award
So, it appears to be inarguable now that this happened: My very own beautiful Children of Time has won the Clarkes this year. Please do tune in to those stalwarts Barry and Dave at Geek Syndicate,...
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