My oeuvre, let me show you it

At the request of friends on LJ, here's the "collected works" lined up!



And the most recent one, en masse.

New website

My new website is now operational here.

I haven't entirely decided what to do with this blog yet, but for the moment will mirror posts here.

The Never-Ending Sacrifice

Today is the official publication date of The Never-Ending Sacrifice (although it has been shipping from Amazon for a few days now, and sighted in locations as far-flung as Toronto and London).

Trekmovie.com have published a rather splendid review, which you can read here.

Cricket

We were at the cricket at the Oval yesterday, my first ever time at a cricket match, and my first time at a sporting event since, um, the opening of the World Student Games sometime in the 90s. I thoroughly enjoyed myself, and this despite England not doing terribly well yesterday. The weather was glorious, the seat was comfortable, the people behind were only intermittently irritating, and the sledging was hilarious. My favourite chants of the day were: "There's only two David Gowers" (sung to one of the men sitting behind us, he being a dead ringer), and "Cheerio! Cheerio! Cheerio!" (sung by hitherto silent Australians to Flintoff, departing very soon after a rapturous reception from the England supporters). The whole thing was very blokish.

I have a decent idea of how cricket works (if it doesn't get technical with concepts like "spin"): it took me a few balls to work out where the batsmen were standing (helped that England were in white and Australia in cream), a couple of overs to work out the score-board, and then perhaps a few more to unconfuse myself about who exactly batted when. After that I was thoroughly absorbed, and the books I'd taken along with me Just In Case remained in my bag. I'd happily go again; I'm only sorry we weren't there for today.

NewCon Press panel at Constitution

I'll be putting in an appearance at Constitution this weekend. I'll be participating in the NewCon Press panel, 11am Sunday, at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. Possibly reading from my short story, "The Great Gig in the Sky", from the anthology Subterfuge, certainly talking a little about it. Come and say hello if you see me!

The Never-Ending Sacrifice

You can now read an excerpt from The Never-Ending Sacrifice on the Simon and Schuster website, here.

Also, coming to a newsagent near you real soon now, Star Trek Magazine 20 contains an extract and review, along with other goodies related to some film or other that came out earlier this year. Available early August in the US, mid-August in the UK.

Currently on my hols and writing this from one of the reception rooms here.

The Sea is Not Full

I'm very pleased that my short story "The Sea is Not Full" has been accepted for an anthology of Irish crime stories with a mythological bent. The working title is The Red Hand of Crime, the editors are Gerard Brennan and Michael Stone, and the publisher is Morrigan Books. Scheduled for release in Summer 2010. More details as soon as they're available.