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tracksounds interview

Music is my other love. In a parallel universe, I chose composition over novels and am now writing soundtracks for TV or strange electronic music for an audience of, say, twenty. So you can imagine my delight to be the first ever author interviewed for Tracksounds: the Film Music and SoundtracksExperience! The interview was ostensibly to promote The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance, but inevitably drifted. You can download my excited ramble as either a podcast or a transcript and marvel at what m...

fatal alliance update

I am slow in posting links to some interviews recorded while at Comic-Con a couple of weeks ago: with Darth Hater, and with Club Jade, and here's a little snip of video of me on stage in the Star Wars pavilion. Below is a shot of me looking slightly stunned at the Lucas Books stand, where I signed dozens of copies of Fatal Alliance, scores of The Force Unleashed, and countless posters.


RSI be damned! It was totally worth it.

Fatal Alliance debuted at #12 on the New York Times hardback bestsel...

recent reading #10

My love affair with Sarah Waters continues this month, between rewrites and flights hither and yon. Apart from that, I've been all over the place. Got a huge stack of YA, graphic, and crime novels lined up next, but I think my heart will belong to the Nineteenth Century for a while yet. Or else I'll read The Lord of the Rings for the first time in twenty-odd years. Or something else entirely...

All suggestions welcome!

Tiny Acts of Rebellion: 97 Almost-Legal Ways to Stick It to the Man by Rich...

"this is my church"

"This is where I heal my hurts." (thanks, Faithless)

Actually, it's just my study, revealed in all its glory. Kinda. Enjoy!

my first comic con timetable (TM)

Thursday
2.30-3.30: signing

Friday
1.00: on stage
2.00-2.45: signing
3.00: on stage & signing
5.00-7.00: Star Wars Community Event

Saturday
3.00-4.00: signing

Sunday
11.00-12.00: signing

This’ll all be in the Star Wars Pavilion, except for the community event (TBD).

So if you’re planning to be in San Diego next week, come along and say hi!

the fanboy speaks (i.e. me)

Pity poor Pawel at Galactic Holofeed, who copped an earful this morning when he Skyped to talk about my upcoming Old Republic novel. I neglected to warn him that this was my first interview on the subject, and that I've been busting to talk about it for months. It's been such a unique and exciting project to work on. I'm really excited it's about to burst forth upon the world.

Anyway, here are the links, to the story notes and podcast. The latter runs for well over an hour. As well as Fatal...

discovered

Speaking of covers, I am blessed with some beauties in the coming months. Isn't the collection on the left, Tehani Wessely's Australis Imaginarium , just stunning?

The second one probably needs no explanation beyond red red red! I am very slightly disappointed that the cover doesn't feature my Jedi Padawan character (who is physically modelled on Alexander Skarsgard, aka Eric Northman of True Blood--yum) but, you know, I can't have everything. :-)

The rightmost pair are from the first two of m...

novel novellas

The two novellas I have out this year are not only substantial (>20k) and therefore great bang for your buck, but two of the best things I’ve ever written. As if that weren’t enough, they also connect to existing stories--so if you want to know what finally happens to Ros and Adi, the two most famous lovers in the world of the Change, or if you want to learn more about the world of “A Map of the Mines of Barnath” and “Inevitable”*, then these stories are for you. (And if you don’t know what I...

donuts or danishes?

Awesome Angela Slatter tackles the great choclit conoisseur (that's me, right?) on her blog. Over here. We discuss many things, and I try to channel the voice of Rich Fulcher, but without the potty mouth. (What's left? Go find out!)

I'm the first of many she's lined up for her drive-bys, so watch out--you could be next.

help bring peter watts to aussiecon

Peter Watts totally deserves to come to Worldcon and catsparx  totally deserves a medal for fearlessly working to make it happen:

The Aussiecon committee has very kindly donated Peter’s membership. The rest is up to us. If you think the guy deserves a break, how about taking part in the raffle or making a donation?
 
I for one am hoping to be charbroiled by the fiery radiation of a magnetar (or something equally gruesome) in Peter's next book, should I be so lucky as to win the raffle. Failing th...