Hell Year 2020 might be doing its best to make this the longest and most miserable decade in history, but before it gasps its last, here’s where you can find me nattering online and in print.
Category: Book Launch
Glasgow pals, I’ve got one more event before the end of this month. You may know Jason Heller as the former Hugo award-winning editor of Clarkesworld, writer about pop culture for everyone from Rolling Stone to NPR, or author of Taft 2012 and numerous other short stories. Bringing all this together is Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded, his new book about the connection between 70s pop, such as Bowie, T-Rex, Roxy Music, Hendrix, and the science fiction luminaries of the period, such as Stanley Kubrick, Philip K. Dick, Ursula Le Guin, J. G. Ballard and more. Happily, it combines two of my favourite things — progressive music and SF — and has some delightful anecdotes about, for example, Hawkwind and Michael Moorcock.
All of which explains why I’m so delighted to be helping Jason launch this book next Tuesday 30th October. Join us from 6:30pm at Waterstones Argyle Street, and don’t forget to click the link below to buy your tickets.
Readings, a workshop and more – here are my official plans for March and April.
March 15th – BFS Open Night (Waterstones Argyle Street, 6:30pm)
My next reading will be part of the British Fantasy Society’s Glasgow Open Night on 15th March. Joining host Shona Kinsella (Ashael Rising, Mirnya’s Oath), Neil Williamson (The Moon King, Secret Language), and I (other stuff) will be R. J. Barker, author of Age of Assassins, and we’ll all be reading and chatting about fantastic things for your entertainment. The night kicks off at 6:30pm on 15th March at Waterstones Argyle Street, Glasgow. For more details, see the Waterstones event page or Facebook event page.
If you can’t make this, I’ll also be doing a warm-up reading as part of the MLitt in Fantasy Reading Party on 7th March at DRAM! If you’re interested in attending this, please let me know and I’ll pass on the details.
March 30th – April 1st – Eastercon: Follycon (Harrogate)
More on this soon! Click here for details of my full schedule!
April 5th – From Glasgow to Saturn: Issue 40 Launch (The Raven, 6pm)
From Glasgow to Saturn will be holding a launch party for issue 40 at The Raven in Glasgow on 5th April. We’ll be hosting readings from some of this issue’s authors and poets, plus music, an open mic, and the infamous FGTS raffle. This is the first issue for which I’ve been an editor, so I’d love to see you there.
Update: Click here for the facebook event page!
April 7th – Workshop at Edinburgh International Science Festival (Summerhall, 2pm)
Edinburgh area writers, I’ll be joining Oliver Langmead (Dark Star, Metronome) for ‘Discovering New Worlds Through Writing: A Creative Writing Workshop’ as part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival on 7th April. We’ll be taking you through exercises on exploring the galaxy, new worlds, and what it takes to get there – and this will be the first workshop I’ve given! Be warned this event will be limited availability, so best pick your ticket up sooner rather than later. The workshop runs from 2pm – 4pm on 7th April at the Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Summerhall. Click here to buy tickets.
April 26th – 27th – GIFCon 2018 (University of Glasgow)
Finally, GIFCon 2018 takes place over 26th – 27th April at the University of Glasgow. If you’ve submitted an abstract to the event, you should be hearing from us soon, but in the meantime, please keep an eye on our twitter, facebook, and instagram accounts, and on our website for announcements of details of how to register.
Hope to see you at one of these!
In the meantime, Shoreline of Infinity have uploaded video footage from February’s Event Horizon — where Hal Duncan, Neil Williamson and I staged a GSFWC invasion — to their facebook page. You’ll find us starting at about 1 hour 13 minutes in.
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Event Horizon with Laura Lam
Here’s a heads up for those of you who can get to Edinburgh next month.
I’ll be chatting with Laura Lam about her brilliant new novel Shattered Minds at the next Event Horizon (11th October) in Edinburgh. The latest in her Pacifica SF series, it’s one of those novels where the words ‘rollercoaster ride’ don’t quite cover how thrilling it really is. And if that’s not enough, Laura will also be reading from the novel. So, if you’ve not picked up a copy yet, why not pop along and hear what you’re missing?
Joining us will be wonderful Orcadian SF poet Harry Giles; artist Stephen Pickering, who’ll be giving us an insight into cover creation; and intriguing dream popsters L-Space. So, it’s sure to be another fine night from the Shoreline of Infinity folk.
Event Horizon kicks off at Banshee Labyrinth (Nidry Street) on Wednesday 11th October at 7:30pm. For more information, head to www.ShorelineOfInfinity.com.