Tim Lebbon – horror and dark fantasy author

There’s a new interview with me over at the Cemetery Dance website – click here to check it out.

Also thriled to see my mate Richard Parker on the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award shortlist!  Richard’s book STOP ME is a great debut thriller, and I’d recommend you all pick it up. You can see more about the shortlist here.

Hitting the shelves today, THE CHAMBER OF TEN is the third Hidden Cities novel written by me & Christopher Golden.  And you will love it.  Here’s the blurb:

From two masters of dark fantasy comes a chilling tale of magic and possession, set in—and beneath—fabulous Venice, a city slowly being swallowed by the very waters that have made it one of the wonders of the world.

Geena Hodge is an American archaeologist working to salvage Venice’s past from the encroaching Adriatic Sea. When she and her lover, Nico, discover the lost library of Petrarch under the Piazza San Marco, they rejoice not only at the historical significance of the find but at the opportunity to bring worldwide attention—and much-needed funding—to their endeavors.

But that find soon leads to another, a room buried more deeply still: the fabled Chamber of Ten, where centuries ago the secret rulers of Venice, in their quest for absolute power, met to plot betrayals and murders. After entering the Chamber, Geena and Nico are thrust into the midst of an ancient feud, a deadly battle of wills and black magic that threatens to poison the city’s future with the evils of its past.

Chris and I are delighted with this book, and hope you enjoy it.  Please let us know what you think of it … we love feedback.

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

I write a brief piece for the new Mind Meld column over at SF Signal.  The question is “How do you define the sub-genre of “Swords and Sorcery”?”

Check it out!

Here are a couple of pics from my recent book signing at Abergavenny Waterstone’s, where I signed copies of THE ISLAND.  Thanks to all the staff for a wonderful day, and especially to the guy who drew this to advertise the event:

And then afterwards there was drinking.

Bantam Spectra are celebrating 25 years by focussing on a novel for each year, chatting about it, and speaking with the authors.  For 2008 that novel is MIND THE GAP, by me and the splendid Christopher Golden.

Go here to read about when we interviewed each other, and to see some comments from our editor Anne Groell.  It’s a nice feature, and reminds me again – as if I needed reminding – what a great series the Hidden Cities is to be working on.

This evening I’m taking part in an online chat about collaborating – go here to check it out: http://www.suvudu.com/master-class-collaborative-writing.html

Kicks off at 3pm EDT.

Swords & Dark Magic landed a couple of days ago (in a bloody huge box …. HarperCollins, stop the waste!)  Great looking book with some wonderful writers, I’m looking forward to getting stuck in soon.

I’ll direct you to Lou Anders’s homepage for more details …

I’m delighted that the completely wonderful PS PUBLISHING are acting as UK distributor for my huge new Cemetery Dance collection LAST EXIT FOR THE LOST.  So you can save on horrible US-to-UK postage and buy it direct from PS, go here to find out the details.

It’s a massive 150,000 word volume, containing most of my best short fiction from 2000 to 2006, as well as new novelette The Evolutionary, and new novella Nothing Heavenly.