Happy New Year to you all.

2010 looks to be another busy year. First off, my debut novel Silversands will be launched by Pendragon in April, at the annual convention of the British Science Fiction Association. Hopefully the event will also see the launch of two anthologies, each containing a new short story of mine: The Shine anthology from Solaris, which features “The Church of Accelerated Redemption”, a story I co-wrote with Aliette de Bodard; and Conflicts, an anthology from NewCon press, featuring a short story I wrote called “Fallout”.

In addition to the above, I’m making good progress with my second novel, and writing further short stories, which I hope will one day comprise a second short story collection, following on from 2008′s The Last Reef and Other Stories.

A few months ago, I was fortunate enough to co-write a 10,000 word novelette with the popular Interzone and Angry Robot author, Aliette de Bodard.

The story we wrote is called “The Church Of Accelerated Redemption” and I’m pleased to  announce that it will be appearing in Shine, an anthology of near-future, optimistic science fiction edited by Jetse de Vries.

The book is due from Solaris Books in April 2010, and there will probably be a Shine launch party at Odyssey, the 2010 British EasterCon, which is being held in Heathrow in April.

In the meantime, the anthology is already available to pre-order on Amazon UK and Amazon USA.

From Monday 30 November, Jetse will be running a competition on the book’s website. He will be posting an excerpt from each of the sixteen stories in the anthology and challenging readers to guess which of four alternative endings to each story is the correct one, and which authors wrote which excerpt.