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EDINBURGH FESTIVAL AND EVENTS
IN THE UK
IN AUGUST 2010
I will be doing a very speedy mini-tour of the UK around my appearance at the Edinburgh
Festival in August, with events in Newcastle,
Edinburgh, Bath
and Norwich.
Links below.
11am
Friday 13th August at Seven Stories, Newcastle
10am Saturday 14th
August at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
(and at 5.30pm for Amnesty, not reading or talking about
my own stuff)
6pm
Monday 16th Waterstones, Bath
5pm
Tuesday 17th The Forum, Norwich (organised by Jarrolds)
I haven’t been to the UK for a few years, so I hope
lots of people will come along to these events to say hello and get books
signed and so on. While the blurbs for the events often give age ranges and
say I’ll be talking about specific books or series, in fact I talk
more generally, and typically the audiences include readers of all ages:
kids, young adults, older adults, very old adults, immortals etc
I’M MUCH
MORE UP TO DATE ON FACEBOOK, BUT HAVE HIT THE FRIEND CAP
I do much more updating on Facebook, but I’ve hit the
5000 Friend cap, so I can only add friends off an on when people leave
Facebook or defriend me or whatever happens. So if you’ve sent a
Friend request recently and it hasn’t been confirmed, this is the
reason, as otherwise I am very happy to friend readers. However, I do have
a Facebook fan
page now and I am making sure I post there as well as my personal
profile. The fan page is here.
NEW FANTASY
SERIES!
 I’m co-writing a new children’s fantasy
adventure series (for ages 9 to however old you get) called TROUBLETWISTERS
with my friend Sean Williams (on the left in the pic). The books are about the twins Jaide and Jack
Shield, who have to move from the city to a small coastal town to live with
their eccentric grandmother, where they are drawn into an age-old struggle
against an ancient entity called The Evil, in the process discovering their
own magical gifts and heritage. It has magical antiques, difficult cats,
hordes of rats and a lighthouse, amongst many other things. You can read more about it here.
We’ve had a lot of fun writing this, and in fact just finished the
first book, called TROUBLETWISTERS: THE BEGINNING last week. I believe the
series will launch in the first half of 2011.
NEW OLD
KINGDOM STORY OUT IN JUNE
 I have a novella set in the Old
Kingdom coming out in June in a book called LEGENDS
OF AUSTRALIAN FANTASY edited by Jack Dann and Jonathan Strahan,
which you can read more about here.
Though this book is currently only being published in Australia, it should be fairly
readily available from online sellers and there is the possibility there
will be other editions. Also, I expect my story will appear in a personal
collection in due course, that will be more
readily available in the UK
and USA.
You can read
the first few pages of the novella here.
LORD SUNDAY
BOOK TRAILERS
Both HarperCollins UK and Scholastic US have
produced book trailers for LORD SUNDAY. They’re quite different, but
I like them both. Check them out on YouTube. There is also an interview I
did in San Francisco,
just before the World Fantasy Convention. I’m sure my glasses were on
straight earlier that morning . . .
British
book trailer
American
book trailer
An
interview with me about LORD SUNDAY
LORD SUNDAY SAMPLES PDF AND PODCAST
You can read an extract from the book here
The podcast of the first two chapters being read by me (not very
well, I had a cold and was in a hurry) is now available at iTunes as a free
download, or via Feedburner, and will be up on the Allen & Unwin site
later (I'll post those URLs when I have them).
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore....woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=350710673&subMediaType=Audio
Remember that there will be a fantastic complete audio version read
by Alan Corduner and published by Random House Audio out in March.
LORD SUNDAY RELEASE DATES
Lord Sunday will be out in February 2010 in Australia, and March 2010 in the USA and UK. Anywhere like Singapore or Hong Kong
that gets any of these English-language editions should have them around
the same time. Translated editions will follow in due course, from the
various publishers who are doing the series in their countries.
   (Australian, US and UK covers)
THE ABHORSEN'S
SEVEN BELLS
The bell charm photography has been done and the website
is under construction. As per usual, I have been the one holding things up.
I’ll announce the launch of the website and the availability of the
bells when they’re about to happen. Sorry for the delay.
IMPERIAL
GALAXY website live
The game that I’ve been working on with Phil Wallach,
and that has been live on Facebook for most of 2008, can now be played via
a browser as well. Just go to Imperial
Galaxy. It’s free, though there is an inexpensive premium
option that allows some personalisation and other benefits, such as your
player name being eligible to be chosen as a character name in my
forthcoming novel, A Confusion of
Princes.
 
IMPERIAL GALAXY is a
massively multiplayer online game that lets you and your friends play the
parts of noble princes (the term is used for either gender) serving in the
navy of a galaxy-spanning empire. Everyone is in the same persistent
universe, and what you and your fellow princes do will shape both your own
future and decide the fate of a vast interstellar empire that is beset by
enemies.
The game's background is based on A Confusion of Princes, the
forthcoming novel by New York Times bestselling author Garth Nix
(out probably 2011 from HarperCollins in the USA
and UK and from Allen
& Unwin in Australia)
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