Mark Charan Newton

Hot off the press: Three huge talents; one signing event – FORBIDDEN PLANET are delighted to be hosting a triple signing with China Miéville, Adam Nevill and Mark Charan Newton on Thursday 20th May at the Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8JR… Two weeks in advance of publication date, CITY OF RUIN [...]

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I’m afraid I’m going to have to bow-out of the very fine Sci-Fi London event, where I was due to pop along on the 1st May. The reason I’m not going is that, basically, I need to breathe. As some of you know, I work full time during the day, and write during the night [...]

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Tomorrow and Saturday I will be attending Eastercon, which is at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow. I’m really looking forward to this one – the same event at this same spot two years ago was great, with stacks of attendees and a really positive vibe. Hopefully it will be packed again this time around. I’ll [...]

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I am the man of many covers. Firstly, the full wrap-around goodness. This is the new, final, ultimate hardcover dustjacket for Nights of Villjamur in the States. I love it – especially some of the design details. Why was it changed? Well, basically, not everyone at Bantam Spectra was happy with the previous version, and [...]

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My US overlord, Chris Shluep at Random House, just emailed me with some rather splendid news, and that is Tantor Media will be producing an audio version of Nights of Villjamur. So for those of you with reading difficulties, or who prefer to listen to audiobooks on commutes for your SF and Fantasy fix, or [...]

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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 [...]

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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: ———- PRESS RELEASE – 28th January 2010 SECOND TWO-BOOK DEAL WITH TOR UK FOR MARK CHARAN [...]

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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 [...]

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