You can now download the schedule for next week’s SFX Weekender. I’m on the following panel at 3pm on Saturday in the ‘Screening Zone’:

15.00. WE’RE ALL DOOMED! Simon Bestwick, Ken MacLeod, Paul McAuley and Gareth L. Powell tell Guy Haley how genre could make the end of the world as we know it feel fine.

Simon and I will then be signing copies of our books and meeting readers in the ‘Bartertown’ area.

If you’re going to the event, please come and say hello.

Tomorrow night, I’ll be at the Oxfam Cotham Bookshop in Bristol, where I’ll be reading from my novel, The Recollection, talking about the process of writing it, and answering questions from the audience.

The evening will run from 7.30pm-9pm. Entry is free, so please come along.

The final line-up for the SFX Weekender has been announced. I’ll be appearing on a panel at 3pm on the Saturday, followed by a book signing at 4pm. The panel is called: We’re all doomed! Is the path to humanity’s salvation revealed in science fiction?

See you there?

The Liminal - Event 2 from Weston super Television on Vimeo.

Here’s a revised list of upcoming dates:

• 14 Jan - The Liminal,  7-10pm, at Dr Fox’s Tearooms on Knightstone Island, Weston-super-Mare; with readings from myself and fellow authors Emma Shortt and June Bastable.
• 25 Jan - Oxfam Cotham Bookshop, Cotham Hill, Bristol. I will be doing a short reading and answering questions about my work, the craft of writing, and science fiction in general.
• 3 – 5 Feb - SFX Weekender, North Wales. I will be one of several Solaris Books authors at this event.
• 2 April - Anarchy Books publishes digital versions of my first two books, Silversands and The Last Reef.
• 6 – 9 April - Olympus 2012, Heathrow. I will be at Eastercon as usual and, although the programme hasn’t be unveiled yet, I hope to be participating in a number of panel discussions.
• 18 – 20 May – Discover Festival, Leicestershire. I will be a guest at this event, along with many other fine authors.

Yesterday evening, as this year’s highly enjoyable Bristolcon convention drew to a close, the organisers  announced that John Meaney, Anne Sudworth and I will be their Guests of Honour at next year’s convention.

Although I have participated in panel discussions and readings at a number of conventions and events, this is the first time I have been invited as a GoH, and I am deeply honoured to have been asked.

One of my duties as GoH will be to be interviewed in front of an audience by Kim Lakin-Smith, where we’ll talk about my work, etc.

L-R: Paul Cornell, Gareth L. Powell, Justina Robson, Juliet E. McKenna

(photo by Cheryl Morgan)

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1) Thursday 20th Oct — from 6pm-7pm, I will be discussing genre fiction on a panel with Juliet E. McKenna, Cheryl Morgan and Jo Hall, at St Mark’s in Easton as part of the Bristol Festival of Literature.

2) Friday 21st Oct — from 12pm-1pm, I will be joining Juliet E.McKenna, Justina Robson, and Paul Cornell for a lunchtime book signing at Forbidden Planet in Clifton.

3) Saturday 22nd Oct — from 10am-11pm, I will be one of the guests at BristolCon, which is being held at the Ramada Hotel on Redcliffe Way, close to Temple Meads station, where I will be participating in at least four panel discussions and performing a reading from my latest book.

I hope to meet as many of you as possible at these events.

Just a reminder: if you’re in the Bristol area tonight, myself and three other authors will be reading a selection of our short stories at The Thunderbolt on Bath Road near Temple Meads from 8pm, as part of the Word of Mouth series of events.

The other authors will be:

• Tim Jeffreys, author of The Garden Where Black Flowers Grow.
• Amy Qureshi, an exciting young talent.
• Rebecca Lloyd, winner of the first Bristol Short Story Prize in 2008.

Entry is free and all are welcome.