Ben Aaronovitch's Blog, page 14
July 14, 2015
BODY WORK ISSUE #1 - OUT TODAY!
Out Today!Rivers of London: Body Work Issue #1
July 12, 2015
Foxglove Summer: The Soundtrack
These are some of the sounds that provided the soundtrack to writing Foxglove Summer.
July 9, 2015
Live in Leominster on Friday
Where?Leominster Library
8 Buttercross
Leominster
HR6 8BN
Telephone: 01432 383290
Email: leominsterlibrary@herefordshire.gov.uk
When?
7.00 pm 17th July 2015
Who?
Me - occasional author.
Why?
Because a day spent outside Herefordshire is like a day without sunshine, a road without potholes and a meal without a detailed explanation of where all the food comes from.
What Else?
Hereford Libraries are having a book festival and I write books - do the maths!
July 7, 2015
Tommorrow Foxglove Summer is out in Paperback.
Rejoice!The British Paperback edition of Foxglove Summer is officially released tommorrow and I would like to thank all the people that buy my books, all the people who do all the behind scenes stuff that actually gets the book produced and distributed and last but not least the booksellers who flog them.
Since we've seen the cover of Foxglove Summer quite alot here is a picture of everyone's favourite ghost hunting dog.
July 5, 2015
Locations, Locations, Locations: Foxglove Summer
To celebrate this weeks UK release of Foxglove Summer in paperback here is a map to some of thelocations in the book.I tried to embed it in the blog but that didn't work but I'm told that this link here might work.
June 30, 2015
Rivers of London Comic Launch Event
Where?Forbidden Planet in London.
When?
The 15th of July at Six O'clock! In less than 2 weeks time.
Who?
Me and Andrew Cartmel..
Why?
To mark the release of Issue #1 of Body Work - 1st of the Rivers of London Comic series.
What Else?
Details of the event can be found here!
Rovers of London Comic Launch Event
Where?Forbidden Planet in London.
When?
The 15th of July at Six O'clock! In less than 2 weeks time.
Who?
Me and Andrew Cartmel..
Why?
To mark the release of Issue #1 of Body Work - 1st of the Rivers of London Comic series.
What Else?
Details of the event can be found here!
June 28, 2015
Currently Reading
Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
I'm currently reading, as quick as I can, Jodi Taylor's Chronicle of St Mary's series because her publisher sent me a preview of book 6 and I'd never heard of them.
Whether I'll finish them in time to blurb (or not) the latest I don't know but I'm enjoying them so far.
Here is blurb for book 1....
Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Mary's, a different kind of historical research is taking place. They don't do 'time-travel' - they 'investigate major historical events in contemporary time'. Maintaining the appearance of harmless eccentrics is not always within their power - especially given their propensity for causing loud explosions when things get too quiet.
Meet the disaster-magnets of St Mary's Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around History. Their aim is to observe and document - to try and find the answers to many of History's unanswered questions...and not to die in the process.
But one wrong move and History will fight back - to the death. And, as they soon discover - it's not just History they're fighting.
Follow the catastrophe curve from eleventh-century London to World War I, and from the Cretaceous Period to the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria. For wherever Historians go, chaos is sure to follow in their wake ...
June 25, 2015
Paperback Launch in Cardiff
Where?Waterstones Cardiff in Wales!
When?
The 9th of July at Seven O'clock! In less than 2 weeks time.
Who?
Me... and that should be enough for you.
Why?
To mark the release of the paperback version of Foxglove Summer!
What Else
Waterstones Cardiff is here! In Cardiff... unsurprisingly.
And you can buy tickets for the event here!
June 21, 2015
Buying Comics Is Easy
Buying Comics is EasyWhile this blog concerns itself with how to buy Andrew and my comic there is excellent article at The Mary Sue on the generalities of buying a comic here.
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Comic Store
Run, don’t walk, to your friendly neighbourhood comic shop. If you don’t know where it is you can use the internet which has such resources as…
FINDACOMICSHOP.COM (The UK and North America) or Search for a Comic Shop (everywhere else it says)
Order a copy Rivers of London
Once you have co-located yourself with your chosen shop inform a member of staff that you would like pre-order Rivers of London Issue #1 (published by Titan Comics). This is known as setting up a ‘pull list’ and is the best way to ensure that you get your hands on the soon to be much in demand(1) first issue of Rivers of London: Body Work(2).
Purchase a copy of Rivers of London
Then on the appointed day (the evening of July 15th 2015 or the following day) you can turn up, hand over some dosh and they will thrust the object of your desire into your hands.
Now different comic book shops will have different ways of setting up Pull Lists but the basics are much the same – here is a fumetti(3) by Keiron Gillen to run through them again.
Buying Digital
If you don't want to sully your pristine germ free hands with an actual physical comic then you can purchase a digital copy of Rivers of London Issue #1 from Comixology - here is the preview page for the UK and the preview page for the US.
(1) Hopefully.
(2) If you, for some strange reason, feel the need to order other people’s comics go right ahead it’s a free country – I wont hold it against you.
(3) Comics that use live action images rather than drawings.
