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Breathmoss Shortlisted for World Fantasy Award

My Golden Gryphon Press book, Breathmoss and Other Exhalations, has made it through to the final ballot for the 2005 World Fantasy Award for best collection.

Brian W. Aldiss -
Sanity and the Lady

I’ve written an introductionto Brian Aldiss’ new novel Sanity and the Lady - due soon from PS Publishing.

The Summer Isles novel version now available

Look out for the full novel version of The Summer Isles, which has appeared as a superb, signed, limited-edition hardback from Aio Publishing in the states. Forget about the novella, for all the praise and awards it garnered - this is the piece as it was always intended! More information here.

Twilight Sonata

The novel I'm now working on is a break from big fantasy. Provisionally entitled Twilight Sonata, it deals with the life of Roushana Maitland, who's born in Birmingham at the start of this century and dies at the end of it. An element of "prediction" is obviously important to the book, although what I'm really aiming to write about is death, the afterlife, music and belief. It's going to be a shorter, brisker book than my two previous works, and, although the book is set in the near future and deals with some technological issues, the overall feel, so I'm told, is surprisingly eerie.

House of Storms published

My new novel The House of Storms, is now out.. This novel follows on from its predecessor The Light Ages in terms of the basic precept of an alternate history based on the discovery of aether, but is set a century later, and deals, amongst other things, with a civil war in England. The extract I've posted here now has greater rarity value, as it's been deleted from the book itself. Nevertheless, it does describe an event which takes place in the background, so it could still be of interest.

Breathmoss + new collection from PS Publishing

My second short story collection, Breathmoss and Other Exhalations is out from Golden Gryphon. There are also plans for a third from PS Publishing, entitled Past Magic.

Location, Location, Location

I'm now a resident of the riverside town of Bewdley in Worcestershire. It's a big change from the urban environment of Sutton Coldfield, and mostly for the better. People say hello to you in the shops, and the main sounds I hear from my study come from the town clock and the steam trains hooting from across the valley.