Whilst having a publishing contract is all kinds of awesome, there’s nothing quite like the thrill of seeing your book in physical form at last. Sad to say I haven’t laid hands on a copy quite yet, but at least I now know they exist!
Photo courtesy of Marc Gascoigne, my lovely editor and fellow typography geek
Yes, a batch of ARCs (advance reading copies) arrived in the Angry Robot offices last week, mine amongst them. You can see The Alchemist of Souls there in the top left corner, in excellent company with several other titles from Angry Robot’s spring catalogue. The selection of covers just goes to show the diversity of books on offer, as well as the awesome design skills of Marc Gascoigne and the various cover artists (clockwise from top left): Larry Rostant, Amazing15, Joey Hifi and Nick Castle.
This first batch of ARCs has already gone out to reviewers, so I’m both excited and anxious to see what they make of my fledgling efforts. Obviously I think it’s pretty damned good, but no book is ever perfect and in any case you can’t appeal to all tastes. Regardless of how it’s received, I can’t wait to take delivery of my sample copies and show them off!
Caption competition
Fancy getting your hands on one of my ARCs?
You have approximately 36 hours to come up with an awesome caption to the cartoon I contributed to the Angry Robot “12 Days of Christmas” blog series. Closing date is tomorrow, Wednesday 21st December.
Good luck!
Update: Congratulations to the winner, Fatihah Iman (aka Psychomacologist), whose entry hit just the right note of sexy geek humour to have me spluttering over my Mac keyboard 
It’s a hard cartoon to caption by the way.
Great image and I’m excited about the new AR books as well. 
Thanks! I didn’t create it with a caption competition in mind, tbh – that was Angry Robot’s suggestion.
I found this quite a challenge but most enjoyable, and i do hope that my attempt is not so bad to be shunned upon? Thank you for holding a brilliant competition and wishing you a very Merry Christmas and happy new year for 2012! xx
From a much devoted fan and admirer of your amazing works. xxxx
oooh, shiny ARCs–awesome!
Shame I missed this, but your cover looks excellent – hope Angry Robot send us a review copy for chronicles, then we can help spread the word.
You should sign up for the Robot Army and get a free eARC – The Alchemist of Souls is due to go out in the next batch:
http://army.angryrobotbooks.com