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

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.

And so the promotional campaign for Silversands rolls forward…

The press release for Silversands has generated some local press interest, and so Becky and I have been taking promotional shots to accompany the articles.

Information from the press release also appeared on James Bloomer’s website Big Dumb Object yesterday: click for link.

Here’s the press release for my novel, Silversands:

MAESTEG, 10/01/2010 – Pendragon Press proudly announces the forthcoming release of Silversands, the hotly anticipated debut novel from rising British SF star Gareth L Powell.

Set 200 years in the future, Silversands tells the story of Avril Bradley, a reluctant astronaut thrown headlong into a world of political intrigue, espionage and subterfuge; a world where retired cops, digital ghosts and corporate assassins battle for possession of a hidden computer file that may just hold the key to humanity’s future.

Continue reading “Silversands Press Release”

There is a Facebook page for my forthcoming novel, Silversands, which will feature updates and information as we approach the launch date (April 10th).

Click here for link.

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.

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.

Pendragon Press has advance PDF copies of my novel Silversands available for reviewers.

Click here for more info.

My novel “Silversands” is now available to pre-order from the following sites:

• Pendragon Press
• Amazon

The book is officially launched in hardback on 10th April 2010, but you can save £2 off the cover price by ordering in advance from Pendragon.

The first 100 copies of the hardback will be signed and numbered.

You can also click here to download a free PDF excerpt from “Silversands”.

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.