This week I’m giving away a hardback copy of Dr Whom by the notorious A R R R Roberts, author of The Soddit, The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo and I, Scrooge among other things.Oddly, as I can rarely enter my editor’s offices without being bombarded by these masterworks, I haven’t seen this one before. Maybe it it’s a bit of a rarity? I have no idea, but here it is going begging.
Usual deal – comment on this post and I’ll randomly select a lucky victim for a free copy of the book. In order to enter, comment on this post before the 3rd November. Your challenge this week is to either make a Dr Who joke or offer a little-known fact about Daleks.
Or just comment anything you like, really. The gods of random don’t care as long as you’re not libellous. If you make me laugh I might send an exciting bonus goody your way[1]. Although, though no one has yet complained about how long it takes me to get to the post office and post things, it can take a while and if you live abroad then it can take even longer. Sorry about that, but they do get there eventually. Well, so far.
[1] Exciting bonus goody not guaranteed to be exciting. Actually it’s often a postcard. Which is pretty lame, but not as lame as used chewing gum.
This has been a long time in coming and for no better reason than I’ve busy with edits and rewrites und so weiter.
Anyway, I parted ways with my previous agent, John Jarrold, back in April time for reasons I won’t go into, and having hunted around a little while, I’m now signed up with Robert Dinsdale of the AM Heath agency. That was pushing a coupe of months back.
It’s early days, but so far I’m impressed. So far Robert is very hands-on and not afraid to ask for things to be done again, better.
The King’s Assassin is officially out and that’s a trilogy officially done, a series officially finished, and if any of you were hoping for some more of Berren then. . . then read the book. All of it. Right to the end. There’s still a freebie novella up on the Gollancz blog – a prelude to The Thief-Taker’s Apprentice. I’ll put a PDF up here shortly.
This week I’m giving away a Gollancz Masterworks copy of Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First men. Usual deal – comment on this post and I’ll randomly select a lucky victim for a free copy of the book. In order to enter, comment on this post before the 28th October. Your challenge this week is to tell me why, in my rapidly advancing years, I should either take up or not take up playing Ice Hockey 
(or just comment anything you like, really).
You can be as rude as you like. The gods of random don’t care. If you make me laugh I might send an exciting bonus goody your way[1]. Although, though no one has yet complained about how long it takes me to get to the post office and post things, it can take a while and if you live abroad then it can take even longer. Sorry about that, but they do get there eventually. Well, so far.
[1] Exciting bonus goody not guaranteed to be exciting. Actually it’s often a postcard. Which is pretty lame, but not as lame as used chewing gum. So it could be worse, right…?
It occurs to me that all the Diamond Cascade posts are in reverse order, so here’s a link to the first episode and then each one links forwatd to the next.
IF YOU CARE, START HERE.
If you don’t, stop reading.
No, this bit further down your screen is the end. Don’t read the end.
Not yet.
Well at least read the owlbear bit, ffs.
I give up.
Review: The Warlock’s Shadow at Lowly’s Book Blog
Review:The Black Mausoleum from the British Fantasy Society
Review: The Black Mausoleum from the Falcatta Times
If you know of any more, please let me know… A new book will be up for giving away tomorrow. Dragon Queen rewrite continues. Everything else continues to be SEKRIT and thus DULL.
When Berren makes the mistake of stealing a purse from a thief-taker, it should have condemned him to a short and brutal life in the slave-mines. When the thief-taker offers to train him as an apprentice instead, he can’t believe his luck; but the thief-taker has secrets of his own, scars of a faraway war filled with mercenary soldiers, necromancers who brew potions that can change your destiny, and a psychotic girl-princess with a penchant for cutting pieces out of her lovers’ souls.
First review from Fantasy Book Critic is pleasantly flattering: “…arguably the author’s best at least since his still awesome debut The Adamantine Palace…”
