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25 Years of Spectra

Tim Lebbon — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:47:41 +0000

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.

MIND THE GAP/BIG BOOK OF NECON – Cemetery Dance editions

Tim Lebbon — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:30:32 +0000

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.

Publishers Weekly Starred Review – The Map of Moments

Tim Lebbon — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:09:01 +0000

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 On

Tim Lebbon — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:30:52 +0000

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:

30 Days of Night
Fallen
Mind the Gap (with Christopher Golden)
The Map of Moments (with Christopher Golden) – forthcoming
The Secret Journeys of Jack London: Book One (with Christopher Golden) – forthcoming
Hellboy: The Fire Wolves - forthcoming
The Island - forthcoming
The Toxic City: London Eye
A Whisper of Southern Lights
The Reach of Children

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.

Book Updates

Tim Lebbon — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:47:09 +0000

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!

Mind the Gap (with Christopher Golden)

admin — Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:46:20 +0000

Published: Bantam Spectra, May 2008

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Cemetery Dance

You never know when you’ll find yourself falling through one of the cracks in the world….

Two of today’s brightest stars of dark fantasy combine their award-winning, critically acclaimed talents in this spellbinding new tale of magic, terror, and adventure that begins when a young woman slips through the space between our everyday world and the one hiding just beneath it.

Always assume there’s someone after you. That was the paranoid wisdom her mother had hardwired into Jasmine Towne ever since she was a little girl. Now, suddenly on her own, Jazz is going to need every skill she has ever been taught to survive enemies both seen and unseen. For her mother had given Jazz one last invaluable piece of advice, written in her own blood.

Jazz Hide Forever

All her life Jazz has known them only as the “Uncles,” and her mother seemed to fear them as much as depend on them. Now these enigmatic, black-clad strangers are after Jazz for reasons she can’t fathom, and her only escape is to slip into the forgotten tunnels of London’s vast underground. Here she will meet a tribe of survivors calling themselves the United Kingdom and begin an adventure that links her to the ghosts of a city long past, a father she never knew, and a destiny she fears only slightly less than the relentless killers who’d commit any crime under heaven or earth to prevent her from fulfilling it.

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Reviews:

“A dark urban fantasy that posits a world of multiple Londons, some real and some ghostly, an ancient legacy of magic, and a secret war between those who seek power to control it and those who seek to free it.” – Library Journal, starred review.