As a number of people have remarked on various social networking sites over the last few days, many will be glad to see the back of 2013. It's not been the easiest year for Family Green either but it's also been a year of firsts for Jonathan Green, Author, including writing my first movie novelisation, attending my first movie premiere and running my first Kickstarter project. So following the example set by several of my
writing colleagues, here's my writing year in review.
In 2013 I wrote a couple of pieces for SFX Magazine, five short stories and a novella -
The Serpent's Egg - which were all published this year. I also wrote three Moshi Monsters books, one of which was the novelisation of the new Moshi Monsters Movie.
2013 also saw the publication of my first Warhammer Path to Victory Gamebook
Shadows Over Sylvania, and my Tin Man Games app
Temple of the Spider God ported to Android devices.
Spider God also came out in French, as did my most recently published Fighting Fantasy gamebooks,
Night of the Necromancer and
Stormslayer, while my first Steampunk Pax Britannia novel
Unnatural History appeared in German.
I also attended a number of events up and down the country, including The Sci-Fi Weekender, Steampunk Doncaster, the first ever Geekfest, Weekend at the Asylum, the MCM London ComicCon, World FantasyCon, and Dragonmeet.
However, my writing year was mainly filled with writing
YOU ARE THE HERO - A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks (the aforementioned Kickstarter project) and prepping a number of other projects for the New Year. So
what does 2014 have in store?
Well, all being well, as well as the publication of
YOU ARE THE HERO, there's a new novel in the works, a new gamebook and a short story anthology, but more on that another time.
So all that remains to be said is to wish you all a Happy New Year and very best wishes for 2014. May it be better than 2013.
What can I say? German readers have taken to Pax Britannia: Unnatural History like Steampunks to corsets and top hats. Here are just some of the latest, rave reviews from Amazon.de...
So the news is out... I shall be attending Sci-Fi Weekender 5 that is taking place in North Wales at the end of March. Archimedes the Steampunk Parrot will also be in attendance, as will other authors such as Gareth L. Powell, Sam Stone and Robert Rankin.
1. (2) Monstrous Missions (Feb 12)
1. Stormslayer (Sep 09)
1. Human Nature (Dec 08)
"Writing is like a sport, it’s like athletics. If you don’t practice, you don’t get any better."
Shadows Over Sylvania recently received a new review on Black Library review site The Founding Fields.
It's been a week since we saw in the New Year and two weeks since Christmas, so it's quite possible you might be suffering from the January blues right about now (especially considering the miserable weather we've been having here in the UK).
Rebellion Publishing are giving away two of my titles to help alleviate those post-Christmas blues, my Second World War Zombie thriller Götterdämmerung and the first Pax Britannia novel Unnatural History, which was first published in processed tree carcass form back in 2007**!
It's been more than five years since my revision guide Match Wits With The Kids was published, but some are still discovering the book for the first time. The latest review appeared back in November last year..JPG)
The Relic has been published before, of course, and is currently also available as an eShort and as part of The Armageddon Omnibus available here.
There's a great new review of the shared world anthology World's Collider, edited by Richard Salter, here. The bit that's particularly pertinent to me is this:
In 2013 I wrote a couple of pieces for SFX Magazine, five short stories and a novella - The Serpent's Egg - which were all published this year. I also wrote three Moshi Monsters books, one of which was the novelisation of the new Moshi Monsters Movie.
