Gods of Manhattan giveaway

Graeme Flory is giving away copies of Al Ewings's Gods of Manhattan over at Graeme's Fantasy Book Review.

If you'd like to chance your luck by entering the competition, click here. To read Graeme's review of Gods of Manhattan, click here.

We have another winner!

As many of you are no doubt aware, a while ago now I ran a competition on my forum to win nearly a kilo's worth of books, signed by myself.

Well, I finally managed to get in touch with the initial winner who was someone I used to work with, and who, as it turns out, is a fan of my Pax Britannia stuff. They very kindly said I could draw another name out of the hat if I liked. So, I came up with a compromise.

Winner 1 will receive some Pax Britannia books and goodies (when they're back from the printers) and Winner 2 (who was selected at random and contacted this morning) will receive the original four book prize. Now you can't say fairer than that, can you?

Meanwhile, the Anno Frankenstein mini-competition is still open and will be until the end of the week, so get your mottos in for the Frankenstein Corps now!

The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus (Vol.1) - a new review

Tim Cundle of Mass Movement Magazine has let me know that a new review of The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus (Vol.1) is now up on his site.

There are a few inaccuracies in the review (e.g. Queen Victoria is not 160 years old and the Curious Case of the Whitby Mermaid is resolved) but on the whole it's very positive - although implying plagiarism in a review is always going to be contentious.

Anyway, you can read the review here, and you can buy The Ulysses Quicksilver Omnibus (Vol.1) here, and pre-order the seventh Ulysses Quicksilver adventure Pax Britannia: Anno Frankenstein here.

Inception - Done in 60 Seconds

Temple of the Spider God

I've been sitting on this one for almost a year now (and have had to be somewhat evasive when people have asked me about the possibility online) but I can finally tell the world that I am writing the seventh title in Tin Man Games Gamebook Adventures line.

Temple of the Spider God should be released this July and you can read more via the press release Tin Man Games have put here. I will of course be updating this blog with more news as and well as well. But in the meantime, arachnophobes should do what they can to prepare themselves...

Thought for the Day

Stories are never finished, only abandoned.

Heinlein's Five Rules of Writing

The Hugo Award-winning science fiction writer ROBERT J. SAWYER has published a piece here about Robert Heinlein's rules of writing - and has cheekily added one of his own. They're worth reading.

Meanwhile, for all you wannabe SF writers out there, here various Black Library authors give you the lowdown on what you should (and shouldn't) do if you want to make the most of BL's open submissions window this May.