At long last the Cemetery Dance edition of MIND THE GAP, the first Hidden Cities novel co-written with the splendid Christopher Golden, has been released. With a beautiful cover and design by Jose Nieto, this is a wonderful looking book. What’s inside ain’t bad either, of course. Go here to check out details.
Also out now from CD is THE BIG BOOK OF NECON, a huge volume of stories and essays based around the wonderul Necon convention run by the Booth family for thirty years. It features my story Recipe for Disaster, as well as many others, and is worth the price for Doug Winter’s Introduction alone.
My forthcoming novel with Christopher Golden, The Map of Moments, has just had a Starred Review in Publishers Weekly! That’s a fine way to start the week, I can tell you. This is the second Novel of the Hidden Cities, and Chris and I are pleased that this review agrees with our own opinion – that it’s even better than the first.
In part, the review says:
Urban realism meets dark fantasy in this spine-tingling second collaboration between authors Golden and Lebbon (after 2008’s Mind the Gap) as they merge the repercussions of Hurricane Katrina with New Orleans’ terrifying ghostly past.
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.
I thought I’d post an update on forthcoming book releases. Where these are available for pre-order, I’ve posted an Amazon link, but ordering from your local bookstore is always good.
So here we go:
Bar None - sometimes soon, from Night Shade Books - my first original horror novel in over 18 months
The Map of Moments – January 2009 – with Christopher Golden, the second Novel of the Hidden Cities, from Bantam Spectra
Hellboy: The Fire Wolves – Dark Horse April 2009 – my second Hellboy novel, this time for the excellent Dark Horse
The Island - April 2009 – fourth novel in the award-winning Noreela series, from Bantam Spectra
You’ll also see Mind the Gap and Fallen released in mass market paperback format early next year, both by Bantam Spectra.
And as well as this, a limited edition of Mind the Gap from Cemetery Dance, and another book from them at some point. And there are other projects I can’t announce just yet, and a couple of announcement that are pending.
I’m also working on a crime novel. Oh yes.
More exciting announcements soon!
October 12th, 1999 • Posted in
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Published: Bantam Spectra, May 2008
Availability
USA
Trade paperback:
Limited edition hardback
You never know when you’ll find yourself falling through one of the cracks in the world….
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