Paul Cornell's Friday Newsletter

Broken Frontier Award Nominations for Nessie! You Get to Vote!

As my surprise midweek Newsletter revealed, I have two nominations in the Broken Frontier Awards for comics! One is for Best Writer on Who Killed Nessie? The other is for Best Factual Book for The Mighty Avengers vs. the 1970s!

My Nessie collaborator Rachael Smith also has a nom in Best Webcomic for Nap Comix! And my old friend Joe Glass is nominated in Anthology for Young Men in Love.

It’s a great honour to be included in such talented shortlists. Take a look and vote here.

And please spread the word!

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!

My Week

I think that was a candidate for best week ever. Not just the two award nominations, but on the same day news that a big TV project has moved to the contract stage. Plus, I’ve got back to my daily boxing workouts, so my mental and physical health are doing fine. Every day this week I’ve written 1000 words of the official sequel novel, which is getting into the final stretch, plus five pages of dialogue on finished comics pages for a very collaborative new project where I’ve been hired just to write the words! Going in I felt I might not have much to do, but actually I’m finding, with a big existing world that I have to draw on for research as I go, that the speech balloons are pulling together the material, and that if I didn’t do it someone else would have to. Plus I really like discovering this new world (that some of you will be familiar with) and using my skills like this. Plus there are two commissioned projects and two big possibilities I haven’t mentioned, so 2026 is already looking good in terms of my career.

I’m also doing Dry January, which means I’ve been sampling alcohol-free beers. I can recommend Asahi Super Dry 0%, which is exactly the same as the regular version, and Lucky Saint’s Lemon Lager. We’re a long way past the days when alcohol-free beer was depressing and flat. I’m also trying, this month, to do a tidy up and clear out (December really made me feel that all months should have themes), so in my spare moments I chuck what can be chucked, and it turns out that’s quite a lot.

Thomas, meanwhile, has gone back to school entirely happily (he’s cooking this afternoon, which means Caroline and I will be faced with a container of something that could range from delicious to diabolical). He’s also started his drums again, and will soon be ready for his Level 1 exam. He keeps asking me what the the title is of songs we hear on the car radio, and in the mornings before I get up, I hear him singing along to the video of some current hit. I love that he’s become so musical. A different sort of creativity. Plus, a career involving that seems much more likely than one involving Lego or Thomas the Tank Engine.

To Be Continued

I hope to see you all here next week!