Mark Charan Newton

File this somewhere under ‘happy fanboy’:

“Newton combines strange and vivid creations with very real and pressing concerns with estimable commitment and passion.”
— China Miéville on City of Ruin

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Seems as though I’m late to my own party. Whilst the interwebs was busy fluttering with this news, I was getting my haircut and buying new shoes, and then I’ve got to cook dinner for four tonight. But anyway:
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PRESS RELEASE – 28th January 2010
SECOND TWO-BOOK DEAL WITH TOR UK FOR MARK CHARAN NEWTON
Julie Crisp, Senior [...]

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A few comments starting to roll in already for City of Ruin.
Between Two Books says:
in this second book of Legends of the Red Sun series, Newton is braver. He mixes the same ingredients he let us taste in Nights of Villjamur but his elixir is bolder this time. I imagine there’s a risk in being [...]

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I’ve yet to finish the copy edit, but here’s a flavour of City of Ruin. The prologue was first posted elsewhere, but chapter three hasn’t been seen yet. It’s new and shiny, and introduces a new character.

Prologue
It entered the deep night, a spider reaching taller than a soldier. Street by street, the thing retched thick [...]

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The first extract from Book Two is available at Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist. Here’s a snippet:
It entered the deep night, a spider reaching taller than a soldier. Street by street, the thing retched thick silk out of itself to cross the walls, using the fibrous substance to edge along improbable corners. Two, then four legs to [...]

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So it seems that most people loved, though some hated, the new artwork. I’ll be amazed when something appears online and receives a harmonious response.
There’s a vague plan to alter the cover of Nights of Villjamur for the paperback, too. The current idea was feature the character Randur as a cover model, and I [...]

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Bringing back the weird… Art by Benjamin Carre.

That’s Brynd, for any of you wondering. There’s a little more work to be done to the face apparently, but this is pretty much it. City of Ruin, the second book in the Legends of the Red Sun series.
My draft attempt at a blurb:
Villiren: a city of [...]

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