Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu at SF Signal

The very kind people over at SF Signal allowed me to write a piece about the Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu Kickstarter and you can read it for yourself here.

Short Story Saturday: Scott Harrison interviewed

Scott Harrison, the editor behind Snowbooks' Resurrection Engines (which features my short story There Leviathan) has been interviewed over on SF Signal.

You can read the interview for yourself here. You can pick up a copy of Resurrection Engines here.

Steampunk Thursday: SF Signal Mind Meld

I was recently asked to give my opinion of what will be the Next Big Thing in SFF for the SF Signal Mind Meld. The piece is now online and you can read it here.

I'm one of several contributors and it probably won't surprise you that I predicted that Steampunk will be the Next Big Thing. However, what's interesting is how many of the other contributors also mention Steampunk...

Maybe I'm on to something after all...

Lavie Tidhar talks Steampunk on SFSignal

Episode 111 of the SF Signal podcast is now available to listen to here.

Lavie Tidhar, author of The Bookman Histories (and regular drinking partner of mine these days), is the guest and he waxes lyrical about steampunk - amongst other things - and I get a mention. Unfortunately during the interview Lavie couldn't remember the name of my Pax Britannia series (which is the second longest-running steampunk series out there, or so my editor tells me) but he does say I'm doing some cool stuff that's a lot of fun.

During the course of the podcast he also said that he wrote The Bookman when nobody was interested in steampunk - except that The Bookman (Lavie's first steampunk novel) was published around the same time as Dark Side (my sixth steampunk novel)!

By the way, whilst I was searching for pictures of Lavie Tidhar on Google Images this came up.

Who knew?

The Appeal of Warhammer 40K

If you want to discover why the likes of James Swallow, Graham McNeill, Nick Kyme, Gav Thorpe and Dan Abnett all love reading and writing books set within the 40k universe, then simply follow this link to SF Signal's Mind Meld feature on that very topic.