Tim Lebbon – horror and dark fantasy author

DUSK has been published in Poland – check out this stunning cover.  I love it.

…SCOTT (in my novel COLDBROOK, of course …)

Winner chosen using a random number generator. Scott, please email me to chat about your imminent zombification.

There’ll be another exciting COLDBROOK competition very soon.  Meanwhile, don’t forget to visit the website where you can read an exclusive extract and sign up for updates.

…coming soon.  I’m very excited.  I’ll be doing a reading, a panel, launching a book, meeting my publishers, signing, going to parties … all of which might well involve a pint or two.  If the hotel only serves John Smith’s Smooth, someone better watch out.

Full schedule will be posted soon.

You’ll soon be able to read FACE, my first title translated into Spanish.  Yay!  check it out here.

The Thief of Broken Toys has been reviewed in PW, who said in part:

Lebbon (Bar None) superbly captures the thoughts and feelings of a man whose misery so unhinges him that an encounter with the uncanny is unavoidable

The book will be launched at the World Horror Convention in Brighton in two weeks, at a special CZP Publications party on the Thursday evening.  More details about WHC and what I’m doing there soon.

Check out this wonderful cover for the forthcoming third novel in the Hidden Cities series, written with my excellent collaborator Christopher Golden.  What a scorcher, eh?

So what do you think?  Would love to hear.

Taken from the British Fantasy Society website, here’s a wonderful, thought provoking, uplifting quote from the late Robert Holdstock:

“Everything we know now is destined to die except for the forest and the earth. Earth is the eternal survivor, and homo sapiens is not part of its mindless and inexorable plan. There are many forests to come. There will be flashes of intelligence. The last thing to burn will not be a man, but a leaf.  So eat pizza and drink beer. And cheer up. It’ll soon be over.”

“There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

More about W. Somerset Maugham …

Watch out for photos of Zombie Family Lebbon on Sunday …

It’s almost that time of year again, when a bunch of misfits and weirdos get together to talk until their mouths go dry, drink to try and prevent that from happening (indeed, drink the bar dry … it’s happened … I was there), then get up and eat inedible breakfast food (waiter, these aren’t sausages!), drink hot fluid laughingly called ‘tea’, move on from that crappy drink to the other hot fluid available in the hotel that’s called ‘coffee’ but most decidedly isn’t, and then that day and evening do it all again.

Ahh, Fantasycon, my favourite time of the year.  Meeting friends I haven’t seen for, sometimes, a whole year.  Talking lots.  Drinking lots.  Spending too much money on too many books that I haven’t got time enough to read.

Love it.

This year I’ll be on an 11am panel on Saturday morning (11am?  Who do these people think we are???), talking about writing weekends.  It’ll be fun, believe me.  There’ll be pictures.  Then after the banquet and award ceremony, I’m on a midnight panel on Saturday about apocalyptic fiction.

Now then.  Let me explain something.  A midnight panel is not a good idea at Fantasycon.  Especially considering some of the people I’m on with, I think it’s the panel itself that could be apocalyptic.  That’s right.  Come along to our midnight panel, and witness the ened of the world as … well, probably as we know it.

I’m also up for a British Fantasy Award for THE REACH OF CHILDREN.  Wish me luck!

Midnight panel.  Christ.