Tag Archives: Elizabethan

Just a quick (and belated) update this week, as I’ve been too jetlagged from my day-job trip to California to put together a proper blog post… Next week I’m doing a giveaway on Goodreads – two signed copies of The Merchant of Dreams are up for grabs. The giveaway runs from 3rd to 6th March,  Continue Reading »

I’m very happy to say that on Sunday afternoon I finished the first clean(ish) draft of The Prince of Lies and sent it off to my editor Marc Gascoigne at Angry Robot Books. Unlike the previous two manuscripts, this one has been running a bit late – not something I’m proud of, but sometimes these  Continue Reading »

Update: congratulations to winners Paul, DeeDee, Gwen and Abhinav – your goodies will be on their way soon! As announced last week, I have a stack of copies of The Merchant of Dreams just begging to be given away, so here’s the second batch! This time it’s a worldwide giveaway, open to anyone anywhere. I have  Continue Reading »

Update: congratulations to Dave, Herdis, Lucy and Steven – your goodies will be in the post soon! My author copies of The Merchant of Dreams turned up the other day, so I thought it was about time I did a giveaway. In fact I’ve got so many different editions, I decided to do two! First  Continue Reading »

A few weeks ago I heard that the Globe had transferred two of their summer productions to the Apollo Theatre for the winter – and more importantly from my perspective, these were two new all-male productions starring Mark Rylance, former artistic director of the Globe. I’d read about the similar productions he’d done almost a  Continue Reading »

It’s all go this week! Since it’s Christmas I’m not doing a “physical” book launch at a bookshop, so I have a number of online events lined up instead. First, thanks to the lovely chaps at my publisher, Angry Robot Books, there’s a competition to win both The Alchemist of Souls and The Merchant of  Continue Reading »

You know, I really can’t believe it’s only been eight months since my first novel came out – it’s been such a crazy hectic year, I feel like I’ve been doing this forever! And yet…today is the day that most editions of The Merchant of Dreams officially see the light of day (just waiting on  Continue Reading »

The trouble with series books coming out months or even years apart is that you tend to forget what happened in the last one by the time you get hold of the new one. With that in mind, I decided to take a leaf out of TV’s handbook and provide a summary of each of  Continue Reading »

Christmas is coming early for one of Mal Catlyn’s fans… One of the (many) cool things about Angry Robot Books is that they now publish an audiobook version of all their titles, simultaneously with the paperback and ebook. This is a great thing for both authors and readers, since there are a lot of fantasy  Continue Reading »

To mark the upcoming release of his latest adventures, Elizabethan spy Mal Catlyn will once more be tweeting his exploits for the next three months. Why, you might ask, would a spy be broadcasting his whereabouts on a public network? Well… He could well be using one of the many cunning ciphers that were invented by  Continue Reading »