Tag Archives: fantasy

The Prince of Lies is revised and handed in, which means it’s all over for Night’s Masque apart from final tweaks and copyedits. Yes, sorry, fans of Mal, Coby, Ned and Gabriel – their adventures are over, at least for now. I have no immediate plans for any more books in that universe, though if  Continue Reading »

Having left Camorre after the deaths of their fellow Gentleman Bastards at the hands of the Bondsmagi, Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen are running a new scam in the Sinspire, a high-class casino in the city of Tal Verrar. Unfortunately the Bondsmagi haven’t finished with Locke yet, and he and Jean find themselves working—decidedly unwillingly—for  Continue Reading »

Yesterday I finished the final draft of The Prince of Lies – yay! – which inevitably left me feeling more than a little punch-drunk, like I’d been hit round the head with a 135,000-word manuscript…So I goofed around on Twitter a bit, and whilst chatting about book lengths and genre I realised that fantasy really  Continue Reading »

Writing is a lonely business, which is why we budding authors tend to be a gregarious lot given half a chance – we love to meet up and share both our writing woes and our useful tips for making it in this tough world of 21st-century publishing. Conventions are a great way to do this,  Continue Reading »

A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post about the pressures of writing a book a year, and how you have to start thinking about what to write next even whilst you’re working on your current novel. I still believe what I wrote in that post, and in fact I’ve been putting it  Continue Reading »

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 »

2013 is going to be a little quieter for me than 2012, but I still have a fair few events lined up so I thought I’d look ahead to the rest of the year. You know, in case you fancy catching up with me, getting a book signed or whatever! 16-17 February: PicoCon, London PicoCon  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 »