Filed under Events • 09-03-2010 •
In April, there will be a book launch for my first novel, and you are all invited.
The event takes place from 2.00pm on Saturday 24th April, in the back bar of The Shakespeare Tavern, Princes Street, Bristol.
I will be giving a short reading from Silversands and signing copies, so please come along and join the fun.
The Shakespeare Tavern is a traditional English pub in the Harbourside area of central Bristol. It serves a selection of beers, wines and spirits along with traditional pub meals and snacks. It is a 10 minute walk from Bristol Temple Meads railway station.
Link to Google Maps.
If you are on Facebook, you can join the event here: Link to Facebook Event
Filed under Events • 22-01-2010 •
At the moment, my schedule for this year’s Eastercon appears thus:
- Friday 6pm - Conflicts anthology book launch (NewCon Press)
- Saturday 12pm – Autograph session
- Saturday 6pm – Shine anthology book launch (Solaris)
I have stories in both the Conflicts and Shine anthologies, and at the autograph session (which will feature several authors besides myself), I will be signing copies of my short story collection The Last Reef and my new novel, Silversands, which is being officially released to coincide with the event.
If you are planning to attend Eastercon this year, make sure you come up and say hello.
Filed under Events • 11-12-2009 •
If you missed this year’s BristolCon event, don’t worry; the convention will be running again next year.
The convention will take place on November 6th, 2010 at the Ramada Hotel in Bristo, a two minute walk from Bristol Temple Meads railway station.
Following the success of this year’s event, the convention is being expanded from an afternoon to a whole day’s worth of programme events. Guests and rates have yet to be finalised, but will be announced in due course.
Click here to read my review of BristolCon 2009.
Filed under Events • 05-12-2009 •
Tonight, I’m planning to attend the launch of a new book, Falling Into Place by Heather and Ivan Morison, the artists who organised the recent event “How To Prosper In The Coming Bad Years“, at which I was a speaker.
Co-published with Book Works, this publication brings together Heather and Ivan Morison’s recent body of work comprising shelters and escape vehicles through a narrative which is part-science fiction, part-history, part-auto-biography, part-fairytale.
The launch is scheduled to take place this evening from 7.30pm in The Star and Dove Inn, Totterdown. If you’re in the area, why not drop in?
Filed under Events • 17-10-2009 •
Those interested in the event I spoke at last weekend can now download a recording of the speeches and subsequent discussion by visiting this page and clicking on the approriate link:
Filed under Events • 10-10-2009 •
This morning I took part as a speaker in an event called “How To Prosper In The Coming Bad Years“, set in this fantastic open-air venue in Victoria Park, Bristol:
The structure is called The Black Cloud, designed by artists Heather and Ivan Morison, who also hosted the event, which brought together a number of guests to discuss the future. As well as myself, the speakers included Jon Turney, science writer and author of the forthcoming Rough Guide to the Future, Richard Sandford, learning researcher at Futurelab, Lisa Morgans from Greenpeace, and Thomas F. Thornton, a lecturer from the Environmental Change Institute in Oxford.
Continue reading “Talking About The Apocalypse”
Filed under Events • 05-10-2009 •
My BristolCon review is now live on the BSFA website, with accompanying photographs by Gemma Morgan.
Filed under Events • 27-09-2009 •
For a small event organised in a short amount of time and with no budget, Bristolcon went amazingly well. The panels were interesting and the guest of honour talks fascinating. And it was great to meet up with so many friends and colleagues for a few beers and a bit of a chat.
Next on the agenda is the upcoming event How to Prosper during the Coming Bad Years to be held in a remarkable new pavillion, The Black Cloud, in Victoria Park, Bristol. The work and its accompanying programme of events has been commissioned by Situations at the University of the West of England, and emerges from a month-long residency as part of the RSA Arts and Ecology programme in Bristol in 2007.
From the blurb:
“The Black Cloud is a new temporary public sculpture designed as a shelter for the park in readiness for a hostile and inhospitable future, to screen people from an unforgiving environment and create a place that community can coalesce in difficult times. The Black Cloud is informed by vernacular architecture built to withstand extreme environmental conditions, with the Yakisugi treatment of the timbers creating a scorched protective shield, the irregular oval form closely referencing the shabono, and the triangular structuring and ethos of the building technique echoing Drop City. Its function as a communal focal point has been modelled upon The Range in Slab City, and the future landscape envisioned for the work is based on the bleak elemental extremes of J.G. Ballard’s catastrophe series.”
How to Prosper during the Coming Bad Years will be held on Saturday 10 October from 10.30 – 1pm. It is intended as a forum between people of diverse disciplines to explore the future through the differing mindsets of conservation versus preparedness; a theme that dominates the thinking behind The Black Cloud.
I will be attending as a key speaker to deliver a 10 to 15 minute talk about the use of science fiction as a means of debating and modelling the future, and to take questions.
Everyone is welcome at this event, and because of the passionate opinions it has stirred locally, it promises to be a very lively event.
Filed under Events • 25-09-2009 •
Tomorrow sees the launch of a brand new science fiction and fantasy convention: BristolCon.
I will be there during the afternoon, selling and signing copies of my book (free badge with each copy sold) and appearing on a discussion panel about the differences between science fiction from the UK and USA.
There will also be:
Personally, I’m looking forward to catching up with old friends; mixing with editors, publishers and fellow writers; and having a drink and a boogie later in the evening.
See you there?
Filed under Events • My Writing • 04-08-2009 •
It’s beginning to look as if I’ll have a busy time at Eastercon in April next year. The event, which is being held at Heathrow, looks likely to play host to the launch of 3 books featuring my work, including two anthologies and my debut novel.
