David Gemmell Legend Award
Somehow, in all the baby-related excitement I managed to forget to mention the fact that Blood of Aenarion is on the Long List for the David Gemmell Legend Award this year. At any other time in my life this would have been huge news but with the arrival of young Will, it just kind of flickered across my awareness and got lost at the back of my sleep-deprived brain. I had an email from the good people at Black Library reminding me about the Award yesterday so I thought I would mention it today. For the two of you who Read more…
Coming Up In 2012
I hope you all had a pleasant New Year and find yourself in fine fettle today. In Chez King we saw in New Year playing Ivanhoe while the City of Prague laid on a fine fireworks display outside our window and baby William lay asleep in his cot. Now the holidays are over and it’s time to settle down to getting some work done in 2012. There a few exciting things coming up this year. This month I will be releasing Sky Pirates. This is my Edgar Rice Burroughs inspired, Dying Earth fantasy novel, featuring, you guessed it, sky pirates. Read more…
2012: The Plan
Having gotten side-tracked on Wednesday into writing about the usefulness of the knowledge of our own mortality, I am back to a slightly more cheerful subject today, my plans and resolutions for the coming year. You’ll notice that most of my goals are stated in numbers. I’m a great believer in what gets measured gets done and I find setting things down in cold, hard numbers makes them easier to track and achieve. It’s much easier to judge the success of I will write 2000 words per working day than I will write a novel this year. The first will Read more…
What Would You Do If You Had Only Five Years To Live?
What would you do if your doctor told you that you only had 5 years to live? How would you change your life? What would you do differently? Where would you visit? What would you tell the people you love? What hatchets would you bury? What relationships would you try to mend. Make a list of these things. Go do it now. Come back when you’ve written it down. Take a look at your list. You know what you have there? A list of the things that are truly important to you, of your hopes and dreams and aspirations, of Read more…
The Best Laid Plans
I had planned on writing about Tyrion and Teclis today but my new-born son had other plans that trumped my own. He decided last night he really did not want to sleep and if he could not sleep, none of the rest of us would either. I can’t remember the last time I went a night without sleep and I’ve done it twice this week already. Worth it though! Anyway, I am going to spend the rest of today, hopefully, catching up on the rest I missed. My apologies for that. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all. Back next week, Read more…
Good News
My son William Karel King was born yesterday at 5:44 am. I am not planning on doing much work today as a consequence. I will be doing the happy dance and visiting the lad and his lovely mother Radka in the maternity hospital. In the meantime, if you feel the urge to read something new and King-ian, I shall just mention that my short horror story Carp is free until 12 p.m. Pacific Time Tuesday on Amazon, Amazon UK and all the other Amazons as far as I know. This story is set in Prague and combines Lovecraftian horror, Xmas, Read more…
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