Stephen Aryan's Blog - Posts Tagged "fantasy"

I’m hoping to have some news in the next couple of weeks about events closer to the time of publication for Battlemage. However, I’m going to be appearing in a few places in the meantime in the run up to the end of September and publication date. So I’ve added details as I have them below and dates on the Events page of my website.

First off I’ll be at the Goldboro Books Fantasy in the Court Event on Thursday 6th August in London. This event is run in association with Hodderscape.

I’m also attending the Nine Worlds Geekfest on Friday 7th August to Sunday 9th August in Heathrow. As well as co-running the Podcasting track, I’ll be appearing in a couple of places.

I’m on the New Voices Panel on the All the Books track on Saturday night from 10.15pm to 11.30pm. Last year this involved a short reading so I’d expect more of the same.

I’m also on the Writing the Other panel on Sunday 9th from 3.15pm to 4.30pm. More information about the event is available here, and you can access the full programme here and start planning your panels. With so many tracking running in parallel you really need to plan what you want to see in advance.

Next week I'm off on tour around the UK to promote Bloodmage, book 2 in the Age of Darkness trilogy.

Tuesday night I'm in Sheffield, get a ticket here with Eventbrite to attend at Waterstones Orchard Square.

Wednesday night I'm in Middlesbrough, get a ticket here with Eventbrite, to attend at Waterstones Middlesbrough

Thursday night I'm in Whitley Bay at the Library. Click here for more information about the event.

Hope to see you at one of these events.

Battlemage is available on Audible for 24 hours only for £2.99 and then it goes back to full price!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Battlemage/d...

Quite a lengthy and detailed review, that is still fairly non-spoilery, of Bloodmage from someone who admits that fantasy is not a go-to genre.

http://www.sffworld.com/2016/12/blood...

Battlemage has been shortlisted by my French publisher, Bragelonne, for the first Hellfest Inferno Prize! Hellfest Inferno is a readers’ choice award launched by Bragelonne and the Hellfest, a very famous French metal music festival.

Voting is via the following website where you can win a 3 day free pass to the Hellfest festival and voting closes on March 6th with the winner announced later in the month, so get voting!

http://www.prix-hellfest.fr/

Received in the post today. Shiny!!!

Happy to finally announce that at the Birmingham event on Wednesday 4th October at Waterstones, we will have some bottles of MAGE, the special edition real ale I brewed with Fownes Brewery!

I will be going to help the Fownes brothers label up the beer soon, so I'll get to see the awesome new label and get to taste some for the first time. Waterstones is licensed, so if you want to on the night, you can buy a beer, sit back and enjoy while RJ Barker, Tom and myself talk about all things fantasy. Don't forget to book your seat ASAP!

https://www.waterstones.com/events/ma...

To tie in with the publication of the new novella next month, Of Gods and Men, I'm doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) over on Reddit Fantasy on Thursday 8th February. So for about 24 hours I will answer all questions (within reason!) about writing, and absolutely anything else people come up with. https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/

An article I recently wrote about Beer and Fantasy Books, with special mention to the real ale I brewed for the publication of Mageborn, has now been published on Medium.com.

https://medium.com/@orbitbooks/beer-a...