Publishers Weekly gives a wonderful review for Bar None in this week’s issue – read it here (scroll down to the SF/Fantasy/Horror section). In part it says:
…a fun, engaging, exceptionally strange and refreshingly original tale for fans of postapocalyptic fiction.
Also, there’s a new interview with me about my Hellboy novel up now at Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review.
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Here’s a fantastic review of my Hellboy novel THE FIRE WOLVES. Nice!
Been a bit quiet here, yep. But I’m busy editing and revising ECHO CITY FALLS for delivery to my publisher next week, as well as working on the new Hidden Cities book with Chris Golden, TELL MY SORROWS TO THE STONES. Lots of other stuff going on too, all very exciting, all nowhere near advanced enough for me to reveal anything yet. But watch this space …..
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My new Hellboy novel THE FIRE WOLVES is available now. You can get it from your local bookstore, or online from the usual dealers. It’s a fun, fiery Hellboy romp set in Italy, centering around a possibly cataclysmic eruption of Mt Vesuvius … and the things that came out of the volcano 2000 years ago …
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I received my first copy of Hellboy: The Fire Wolves today from the very excellent Rob Simpson at Dark Horse. It is a Beautiful Object (see cover), and when it’s available for sale in a few days I’ll do a more lengthly blog post.
For now, I’m chuffed that my name’s appeared on a second Hellboy novel … and this one from Dark Horse itself.
Somtimes – in fact, often - I love my job.
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Two years ago today was my first day working as a full-time writer. Leaving work to write for a living was a big decision, but definitely one of the best I’ve ever made, and through the downs as well as the ups I haven’t regretted it for a moment. It seems a lot longer than two years ago that I last left Monmouthshire County Council’s dodgy old building (it’s effectively falling down), and looking at the amount I’ve written since then, perhaps there has been a time-warp thingy going on somewhere. Here’s a rough list:
As well as those novels and novellas I’ve done several short stories, two screenplays (The Everlasting and The Dregs), and plenty of other stuff. It does make me wonder how the hell I wrote so much when I was working, but the fact that I’m still working just as hard after two years is great. I’ve still got plenty of work on … and a big THANKS is due to you discerning readers who continue to buy my books!
And on it goes …! I wrote a novelette this weekend for a US market (sending it to the editor for consideration today), brainstormed a new screenplay with a good friend of mine, and this week it’s back to the Yukon to finish off book one of the Jack London series.
Many more announcements coming soon, including a new short story option. So please do keep popping by, and in another year I hope the above list will be much, much longer.
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Published Dark Horse, April 2009
Availability:
USA -Trade Paperback
UK – Trade Paperback
Hellboy is called to Amalfi, Italy, by Franca, a young member of the Esposito family. She fears that a dark curse on her family is about to claim her cousin as its next victim. Hellboy makes his way to their large home, and he encounters a flaming demon – a fire wolf – which he successfully fights off. Hellboy and Franca make their way to Pompeii, where Franca remembers seeing an image of the fire wolf whilst on an archaeological dig. Hellboy unearths the shriveled corpse of a demon hunter who was buried during the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius, and it tells him of the fire-demon that escaped the grip of the volcano leading to that devastating eruption. Attacked again by the fire wolf, Hellboy and Franca have to make their way back to Amalfi to confront Adamo Esposito, the family elder. But already the volcano is rumbling again, and an eruption even more devastating than that historical catastrophe looks very, very close!
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