Richard K. Morgan's Blog, page 16

January Sale (in February) - Everything Must Go!

Happy New Year!

Bit of a crisis of office space right now. I have author copies of my stuff piling up everywhere, and it's getting so I've forgotten what colour the floor beneath all the cardboard boxes is. So - for a limited period only - I'm offering a bunch of my books for sale.

Basically, the deal is this: I'll sign and/or personalise to e-mail order as requested, and then sell you the resulting copy for cover price plus postage. If that seems fair, all you need to participate are:

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The Wall of Sound on Sauchie Hall

Saw something extraordinary last night. Saw the Dandy Warhols live.

Which is something I've been trying to do for about a year and a half now, ever since I ran into Pete Holmstrom at a book signing in Portland and was bowled over to find he read my books. Ever since then, Pete has been brandishing free tickets and backstage passes at me whenever the Dandys showed up in the UK, and every time I managed to find myself locked into some other engagement - convention in Italy, anniversary in a stone

Rage

Been wanting to write about this for a while now, but I've been struggling with my own anger for a way to do it that won't earn me an unwelcome visit from some stony-faced Special Branch officers. Someone asked me a little while ago in interview if my experience of asshole students when I was still an EFL teacher (finest example being the Egyptians who fronted a colleague of mine with the delightful quip Ah Hitler - now there was a guy who knew how to handle the Jews) has now ebbed as a source

11/5

It must feel very good to be an American today......

Certainly brought a couple of tears to my eye, and it wasn't even my election. Watching the coverage this morning, it occurred to me that we're still only groping our way round the edges of what this means, both in the US and abroad. The long term impact it's going to have could easily be as great as that felt when the twin towers came down; in fact, in many ways I'd say this is the Anti-9/11 - a massive, visceral but this time positive shock

Legendary

This is nice - The Steel Remains just got nominated for the David Gemmell Legend award. Link is here

That's the good news. The bad news is that judging by the amount the book is getting discussed, it doesn't have a kitten's chance in a washing machine of winning.

Ah well, it's not the winning, it's the taking part, eh. That's what the British will tell you. Or that's what Bill Bailey will tell you that's what the British will tell you, anyway.

But feel free to zip along there and vote for it an