I spent the last four days at a hotel in Heathrow, attenting this year’s Eastercon, the highlights of which were:

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Thanks to Chris Teague at Pendragon Press, I now have an A3 poster and a stack of limited-edition promotional postcards for Silversands, featuring Vincent Chong’s excellent cover design. They arrived in the post this morning, and they’re very pretty.

The postcards will used to promote the novel at Eastercon.

Eastercon is the official convention of the British Science Fiction Association. It is a four day event held over the Easter bank holiday weekend, and has been held annually for over sixty years. This year’s event is called Odyssey, and it’s being held at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow. It will be the fourth consecutive Eastercon I’ve attended.

As well as listing its special guests, the Odyssey website also has a list of authors attending Odyssey 2010, on which you’ll find my picture and a brief bio. If you’re at the event, come up and say hello. I’ll be signing copies of my new novel from 12.00pm on the Saturday, as well as taking part in the Shine and Conflicts anthology launches.

Click here for my schedule.

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.

The publisher has just sent through the full wrap-around cover art and a PDF file containing the typeset galley proof of my forthcoming novel, Silversands.

It looks good.

Vincent Chong has done a marvellous job with the cover picture and design, and the text looks good laid out and ready to print.

The novel will be launched in hardback in April, with the first 100 copies signed and numbered.

More information.

Plus, on a tangentially related note, the organisers of Odyssey 2010 have been in contact to ask if they can include my picture and bio on the “Also Attending” page of their website, along with the other authors, artists, editors, and critics scheduled to appear at the convention – so look out for that in the next few days.