Paul Cornell's Friday Newsletter

Stolen Face

Lizbeth Myles and I have done another commentary track for a Hammer blu-ray box set! Stolen Face (1952) is a neat little black and white thriller, and we found lots to say about it! It’s out on 16th February, and you can read all about it and pre-order it here at Hammer.

Salvation’s Child

My company Cosmic Lighthouse is publishing its first graphic novel this summer: Salvation’s Child.

Salvation’s Child is the graphic novel Prologue to Adrian Tchaikovsky’s best-selling SFF novel series The Final Architecture. (So new readers can start here!) It’s by Adrian himself, artist Mike Collins, colour artist Pippa Bowland and letterer Simon Bowland. We’re publishing it together with our partners ComiXology.

Check out these pre-order links at Amazon US and Amazon UK.

And you can find Cosmic Lighthouse at these links on BlueSky and Instagram.

Salvation’s Child will be released by ComiXology Originals on 16th June!

The Lychford Collection 2

Up for pre-order now, and also out on 16th June is The Lychford Collection 2, featuring my fourth, fifth and sixth Lychford novellas!

Monarch: The Lost Adventures Pre-Order!

I’m one of a whole bunch of comickers contributing to Legendary Comics’ Monarch: The Lost Adventures, a graphic novel anthology which tells stories in the continuity of the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters TV series. (And we stick very closely to the lore.) My story, which I loved writing, concerns Bill Randa’s wartime encounter with the Ion Dragon, and is wonderfully rendered by Drew Zucker and Brad Simpson on art and colour art. The anthology is out on 14th July, and is up for pre-order now!

Get Signed and Personalised Copies of My Work!

I’ve re-stocked my Ko-fi online store, with all my current works, which you can get cheaper than anywhere else, plus you can have them signed and personalised! Right now, it’s just for UK residents, but that’ll change as I sort out international postage.

Telefantasy Time Jump

The new podcast from me and Lizbeth Myles covers the history of SFF on TV, from 1953 onward, with our regular episodes (on the 14th of every month) covering a show released that year in the UK, and the Patron Bonus episodes (on the 28th) covering a show from the rest of the world. The shows for January are Out of the Unknown and Lost in Space/Marine Boy.

The main episode is available free wherever you get your podcasts. To get the bonus episode, you need to follow us on Patreon at £3/$3 or above. (And you get access to seven years of Hammer House of Podcast bonus episodes!) You can find all the info here.

My Linktrees

You can now find all my social media links, my website/blog and links to where you can buy my books, in one place here, thanks to Linktree!

The Work of Friends

Iyanu is an animated children’s show that my friend Brandon Easton worked on, and it’s up for three categories in the NAACP Awards: OUTSTANDING CHILDREN'S PROGRAM, OUTSTANDING ANIMATED SERIES and OUTSTANDING WRITING IN A TELEVISION MOVIE, DOCUMENTARY OR SPECIAL (for Roye Okupe and Brandon Easton). Being a huge fan of Brandon’s work, I want to spread the word that you can vote in two of those categories, at the links above!

And my friend the writer Sandra Wong has just launced a delightful new podcast, We Contain Multitudes, in which she talks to a fellow author about something they love which isn’t what they write about. In the first episode it’s Premee Mohamed on fountain pens! It’s available at the link and wherever you get your podcasts.

My Week

I got to hear what my heart sounds like this week, and it’s like something by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Chup chup chup chup! Flotterflotter! Kerdunk kerdunk! All these, I should stress, are perfectly healthy sounds, this being a years-delayed appointment that resulted from my fainting spells of, well, very long ago. I was told at the time I was lacking B12, took it upon myself to start taking some, and found everything sorted itself. But I went along to the heart check-up anyway, because I figured the more my doctor has on file about my interior workings the better. And it was an oddly relaxing experience. I wish I was one of those mystics who could reputedly control the resulting noises, and put on a proper soundtrack for the technician.

Thomas was also in for a medical this week, in his case about his impacted tooth, which is growing the wrong way inside his jaw but is causing him no pain (so far). The consensus by the wonderful NHS dental specialists, having taken a look, was that we’re probably heading for surgery, but there’s a more detailed scan to come. Thomas, because he’s had nothing but great experiences in the dentist’s chair, sat there enjoying wearing the cool goggles, chuckling to himself about that morning’s Mojo and the Swoptops. I tend to emote along to him in the chair, unconsciously opening my mouth when he does his. I’m not too worried about the prospect of surgery. He’s done it before, and was entirely relaxed about that too. Easier on him than a brace, I suspect.

Myself, I’ve been working full-on, into the last section of the official sequel novel, finishing the dialogue for that gaming universe comic and having a first meeting about an enormous TV project that… should be announced very soon! I’m quite boggled by what this is, and I hope you will be too. My working day, ending with my boxing and core exercises, is now full and satisfying. Right now I couldn’t feel better about my work life.

To Be Continued

I hope to see you all here next week!