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First of all, don’t forget that next Friday at 6.00pm, there is a rare opportunity to meet with Angry Robot authors Aliette de Bodard and John Meaney at the Forbidden Planet Megastore in London. You can pick up signed copies of their books (Aliette’s Servant of the Underworld and John’s Edge – written under his alter-ego’s name: Thomas Blackthorne).
While there you can pick up a competition entry form to win one of two great prizes – a stone replica of an Aztec calendar (to tie in with Servant of the Underworld) or the opportunity to have a character named after you, and killed in Point – the sequel to Edge, published later this year!
How cool is that!
Mike Shevdon and Sixty-One Nails are both under the spotlight at SF Site.
That’s the best thing about writing, when your characters take on a life of their own and start writing their own stories for you. It’s a surprising, wonderful and magical moment. Writing seriously gives you so much, even though it also takes it out of you. It’s very emotionally and intellectually challenging but also very rewarding.
Sticking with Sixty-One Nails for the moment, Barbara Martin reviews it at her blog:
Once I started this book I could barely put it down, wanting to know how certain threats would be dealt with and solved. There are no weak spots, and the action kept moving at a good pace. I really enjoyed reading this book. I recommend this book to anyone wanting to delve into a different look at urban fantasy.
Click to enlarge. Don't say we didn't warn you!
Voting is now open at the David Gemmell Awards. Our very own Andy Remic is in the running with his Gemmellesque Kell’s Legend. Voting is open to everyone, and the sequel (the wonderfully blood-soaked Soul Stealers) is out in a couple of months.
And if you don’t vote for Andy? Well, we might just have to send him round dressed as a nurse…
