Mark Charan Newton

Americans! Feast your eyes on this. Fresh from the offices of Bantam Spectra, we have the advance reading copies of the US debut of Nights of Villjamur. Always exciting to share a picture or two.

Incidentally, the typewriter in the background is purely ornamental, and I couldn’t actually find a free space to pile the [...]

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Convention goodness. The Eastercon draft programme is up, and it ranges from the very sensible to the very bizarre.
I’m on this panel on the Saturday:
Writers and the Web – Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, etc. 2pm- 3pm. Room 12. Is it essential to be on the Web to promote sales of your book? Which [...]

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When first thing in the morning you see China Miéville cooking eggs for Peter Hamilton, you know it’s not going to be normal weekend. I realise that sentence implies something earthy happened the night before, and given China’s remarkable ability to deploy the opening riff of Let’s Get It On several times over the weekend, [...]

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In addition to the other panels/sessions, I’ll also be appearing on Friday night’s panel “In these days of globalisation and the Internet, is there still such a thing as British SF and Fantasy”. I’ll be alongside Paul Cornell, Stephen Hunt, and Peter Hamilton.
I think my answer will be a vague yes and no, and [...]

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This weekend, I’ll be attending the SFX Weekender, at Pontins in Camber Sands. Yes, that’s right – Pontins. I think the plan is for authors to don brightly coloured blazers and work the crowd through Steps songs.
Or…
A bunch of genre folk will be on hand to give indispensable advice and witticisms on all things [...]

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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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It looks like I’ll be heading to Eastercon this year, which is from the 2nd-5th of April, 2010, just outside London. I really enjoyed this one two years ago, when it was in the same hotel. It was pretty much a Who’s Who of British SF in that bar.
Before that, I’ll be at the SFX [...]

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I’ve had several emails about an ebook version of Nights of Villjamur, whether or not there would be one, so I thought I’d mention what was going on.
Yes, there is going to be a ebook version. Two, in fact. They’ll both be available around the same time, one from Pan Macmillan (Tor UK) when [...]

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Here’s the UK paperback cover for Nights of Villjamur. As you can see, it’s quite different from the original, and the yellow font will be gold-embossed on the physical copy. The photo work was by Richard Jones.
This will be published in June 2010, alongside City of Ruin in hardcover.
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Life keeps getting in the way of interesting bloggage. But there will be UK paperback cover art forthcoming – just a few little tweaks to finalise, and we’re done. It is hugely different to the other covers, and I can tell it will divide opinion, but that’s all part of the fun, right? Right.
I’ll also [...]

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I’ll be one of a bunch of writers gathering at Jeff VanderMeer’s prominent blog whilst he’s on book tour. I’m rather looking forward to it – I’ve already one or two interesting posts up my sleeve… Thanks to Jeff for the invite!
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Just a reminder that I’ll be at the Hockley Hustle 6.50pm – 7.30pm this Sunday, with Guardian blogger Damien G Walter.
We’re talking about about how and why and when speculative fiction invaded the mainstream.
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