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Game Night on Kindle – How You Can Help Me

My novel Game Night is now out on the Kindle, priced at what I’d consider to be a bargain launch price of just 99c (or 70p in the UK). I’m not sure what to expect or hope of this. It might prove to be a runaway success, going viral in the way that the paper…

Jun 25, 2011
Game Night on Kindle: It’s Here!

I tweeted about this early this morning, but my novel Game Night is now available on the Kindle for a time-limited launch price of 99c in the US and 70p in the UK. Here’s where you can find it: US: http://www.amazon.com/Game-Night-ebook… UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Game-Night-ebook… As part of his I’ve done a press release, reproduced below. Please feel free…

Jun 23, 2011
Copyright: Should Is Not Is

There’s something that annoys me about the behaviour of some (not all!) of the anti-copyright rent-a-mob found in many corners of the Internet that I can best explain through analogy. Imagine you have a man who thinks that motorways (freeways) should have no speed limit, as used to be the case in the UK until…

Jun 19, 2011
On Lies To Children

There are many things that annoy me, but one of them is when people tell lies to children. I don’t mean actual, “Of course Uncle Gary isn’t your daddy!” type lies. I’m talking about lazy, false, over- simplified and dumbed-down answers given in response to a child’s curiosity about the world. I think children are…

Jun 17, 2011
Game Night – Coming Soon On Kindle At Special Launch Offer Price

I’m very pleased to announce that after getting various issues out of the way, my ENnie nominated fantasy humour novel Game Night will be arriving on the Kindle within a couple of weeks. It will be available not only for the standard Kindle, but for Kindle on Android, iPhone and iPad also. A ten-thousand-year quest…

Jun 8, 2011
The NeXus Files – Coming This August – By Me!

That writing involves frustratingly long lead times between you completing a book and it being published is a reasonably well known fact. That there can sometimes be a long lead time between you completing a book and it being announced, it perhaps less well-known. But it’s even more frustrating. So it’s with great pleasure that…

May 24, 2011
Joanne Pullan 1970-2011

Last Thursday, at a loud and chaotic Euston station, I received a phone call from my wife to tell me that our friend Joanne Pullan had died the previous evening. Jo had been found collapsed in a park by a bystander, after suffering an asthma attack while walking to the shops. She was taken to…

Apr 26, 2011
Signing Response Mail: Too Self-Depreciating?

I received today an email from one of the Illustrious (Eastercon 2011) organisers saying that my name has been given to her as an author attending the con, and asking if I would like to attend any or all of their three author signing sessions. Here’s the reply I’ve just sent to her: Hi Meg,…

Apr 16, 2011
Eastercon: Illustrious 2011

Next weekend I’ll be at the NEC Birmingham for this year’s Eastercon, Illustrious 2011. This will be my fourth Eastercon, having previously attended Orbital 2008, LX 2009 and Odyssey 2010, and I’m really looking forward to it. Last year I had a really great time, so much so that I wrote it up in a…

Apr 16, 2011
Why Brighton & Hove Fans Are Happy To Be Moving

On the way home last night, a few stops from Brighton, my train was invaded by a bunch of good-natured fans of Brighton and Hove Albion, our local football team, also known as the Seagulls. The fans, who were heading for an evening match at the Withdean stadium, had reason to be good-natured: they stood…

Apr 13, 2011