For those of you nominating for the Hugo Awards, or any other sort of awards, please consider the following from me and mine:

Best Novella: Gnomes of Lychford. Published by Tordotcom Publishing.

Best Graphic Story: Who Killed Nessie? by me and Rachael Smith. Published by Avery Hill.

Best Fancast: Telefantasy Time Jump.

Best Fan Writer: I’ll be nominating Lizbeth Myles for her excellent blog.

Thanks!

My partner on Telefantasy Time Jump Lizbeth Myles and I have written a comic strip together! It’s going to be one of the stories in Flash Gordon Quarterly #7, from Mad Cave, with the great Georges Jeanty on art! It’ll be out on April 29th (so please order from your local comic shop before the 6th), or you can order it direct from the publisher here.

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 this link on Instagram.

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

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

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!

Because I’ve still got some copies of Who Killed Nessie? and a couple of other books, I decided I’d take a table at a new comics event in Gloucester. Comics Assemble isn’t a ‘comic con’, but a proper comics festival, with Jim Zub as a guest. It’s on August 15th, at Gloucester Leisure Centre. You can find all the details at the link.

Tickets will cost £10 for adults, but I’ve got 10 to give away! All you have to do is email me at [email protected] with the subject heading Comics Assemble. One each, first ten to email get them!

I’m writing the dialogue for a forthcoming comic based on the Summoner Wars game! The new comic is plotted by Justin Zimmerman, with art by Patrick Macchi, colouring by Mo Hollowell, a story by Plaid Hat Games, and covers by Plaid Hat’s Martin Abel. Battle Quest Comics is bringing the new release to stores this September. You can read all about it at Screen Rant here, and see some sample finished pages at AIPT here!

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.

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 February are Adam Adamant Lives! and Star Trek.

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.

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!

Thomas’ day out in London last Friday went pretty well. He was absolutely fine with the train journey, and wasn’t at all worried by the Underground, so that all bodes well for the future. Caroline and I had become members of the Natural History Museum so we didn’t have to join the (enormous, during the school holidays) queue in front of the building. Thomas was delightfully awed by a lot of what he saw, including the animatronic T Rex and the full size blue whale hanging from the roof. With some time to spare before the train home, we went to the Lego Store in Leicester Square. Thomas didn’t expect a queue for that too, and was a bit over-stimulated by how packed it was inside, but enjoyed the experience, and found a set he wanted within the budget we’d given him. So all that went well. It was the journey home that wasn’t so good. On a packed train, the departure of which was delayed, so it kept getting more packed, we were on a table with one other poor guy. Thomas wanted to get out his new Lego set and start building it on the table. Caroline and I said no, because that would have given the other passenger no space. Thomas, over-stimulated after the day, fixated on the refusal, and kept trying to start building it, to the point where I had to keep my hand on the box for the whole journey, and he kept on complaining about it (actually pretty quietly) all the way to our stop. The other passenger and I exchanged looks of tiredness and understanding as we left, so I think he was probably a Dad too. I worried that Tom might remember the trip just for that negative, but we have talked about the dinosaurs since, so all in all it was probably a (very tiring) win.

It’s delivery day for me today on the official sequel novel. (Ahead of my deadline tomorrow, which, being a Saturday, is pretty much academic.) I’ve been revising pages at capacity all week, and I’m very proud of what I’ve written. I can’t wait for you to see this ones. (Or hear about it!) I’ve also been checking press releases and finalising contracts for those other big unnanounced projects. You’re going to be hearing about five exciting things. At the end of today, I may well be just as exhausted as I was after that train journey.

(This is the best photo I got of Tom at Paddington station, but he was having a good time at that point, honest!)

So much exciting ahead!

And I hope to see you all here next week!