Representation:
Donald Maass
Donald Maass Literary Agency
dmaass@maassagency.com
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| 24th March My blog: House Arrest |
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| 16th March I'm guesting on Gillian Polack's blog with a post about...er... me. |
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| 10th March My blog: An Interview First Published in SF Signal. |
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| 10th March My blog: Writing and rewriting |
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| 28th February My blog: Useful Book Cover Tool Online |
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| 11th February My blog: Fantasy Food to Go - Part 2, Overland |
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| 28th January My blog: Fantasy food to Go - Part 1, All at Sea |
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| 14th January Updated Blog Archive 2013 - 2019 |
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| 1st January Happy New Year to all |
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31st December |
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| 26th December Blog: The Christmas Truce in 1914. |
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| 17th December Blog: Christmas-ish post |
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| 3rd December Blog: Creativity and the laugh-track of my life |
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| 19th November Blog: Process |
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| 5th Novermber Blog: It’s not too late to join up – NaNoWriMo |
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| 22nd October Blog: Retro-Blog of a Pre-published Writer from Autumn 2008 |
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| 8th October Blog: Writers Injuring Characters |
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| 24th September Blog: Home from Milford – Tired but Happy |
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| 10th September Blog: Retro-Blog of a Pre-published Writer from March 2008 |
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| 20th August Blog: Dublin Worldcon 2019 |
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| 13th August Blog: My Other Journal in a Galaxy Far far Away |
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| 23rd July I forgot to mention that my story: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Panda is in the anthology Wild Voices |
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| 16th July My blog post on this year's Science for Fiction event. |
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| 2nd July I have an article on Writing Historical Fantasy on the Dark Matter Zine. |
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| 1st July I have a post out today on Gail Z Martin's blog. Thanks for hosting me, Gail. |
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| 18th June My blog post on Submission, Rejection, and My Coping Strategies. |
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| 4th June I answer five questions for the Chocolate Lady's blog. |
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| 21st May Read the first chapter of Silverwolf here. |
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| 13th May New short story A Land Fit for Heroes in the Zombies Need Brains anthology, Portals. Available from all the usual bookstores and online outlets. |
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| 7th May Blog post: Milford Writers' Retreat |
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| 23rd April Blog post: The Long Haul (about writing trilogies) |
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| 26th March Blog post: What I like to Read and Why |
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| 12th March Blog post: Write What You Know - Kind Of... |
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| 12th March: Blog post: Updated Blog Archive |
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| 26th February Blog post: It's Never Too late to Talk About a Book |
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| 12th February Blog post: Writing Romance when you're not a Romance Writer |
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29th January |
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| 15th January Blog post: Writing Tip: Using Wordle to highlight overused words |
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| 1st January Blog post: Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2018 and 2019 |
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News: 2018 |
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| 10th December Excellent Publisher's Weekly review of Rowankind. "Gripping final Rowankind installment... a strong and satisfying wrap-up of the series" |
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| 5th December There's a good review of Rowankind at Arched Doorway. |
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| 30th November I've done an interview for Civilian Reader. |
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| 29th November. Here's my blog post on Sharon Stogner's I Smell Sheep blog. |
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| 26th November I have an interview up on the Jean Book Nerd blog. |
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| 21st November New blog post up at Skiffy and Fanty. Thank you Paul Weimer |
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19th November |
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| 17th November An interview with me re Rowankind is now up at File 770. Thanks to Mike Glyer for hosting and to Carl Slaughter for the interview itself. Good questions, Carl. |
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| 17th November. A complete rundown of the Rowankind trilogy ia now up at Fille 770. |
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11th November |
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| 9th November My author copies of Rowankind arrived today! Whoo-hoo! Publication date is now 27th November 2018. |
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| 3rd November New Blog Post: First chapter of Winterwood. Read it here. |
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3rd November ROWANKIND |
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| 22nd October New blog post: SF Conventions and How to Survive Them |
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| 8th October: New Blog post: Gentleman Jim Speaks Out - the Rowankind books from the piratical perspective |
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| 28th September New blog post: My Week at Milford. |
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| 22nd August Whoo-hoo! I'm one of the core authors in Zombies Need Brains new kickstarter anthology 'Portals.' Here's a link to the kickstarter for this and two more anthos. It goes live today. |
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| 14th August New blog post on book covers |
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| 31st July New blog post on Dropping a Pebble Into the Pond |
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| 17th July New blog post on Character self-determination. |
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2nd July |
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| 13th June New blog post on my story 'Make Me Immortal With a Kiss' in Second Round, A return to the Ur-Bar |
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| 23rd May My blog post on 'What Times We've Lived Through' is up now |
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| 17th May Nice review of Silverwolf in The Nameless Zine. |
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| 14th May Jacey's piece on the Milford Blog: The Parallels between Singing and Writing |
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| 25th April Jacey's blog: The Reading Conundrum. |
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| 17th April Cover reveal of my upcoming book, Rowankind, last in the Rowankind trilogy. Due from DAW in November 2018 |
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| 5th April Here's my blog post at Authors Electric on The Geography of Words. |
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| 4th April Comedy panel at Eastercon with me, Jaine Fenn and Juliet McKenna discussing 'Men in Science Fiction and Fantasy' with the delightful Adrian Tchaikovsky as our token male. |
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| 18th March New blog post: My Eastercon Schedule |
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| 27th February New Blog Post: Pleasantly Pleasing Progress |
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| 15th February New Blog Post: How to get a Literary Agent |
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30th January |
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| 16th January New blog post: Discovering what I didn't know I didn't know |
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News Archive 2017 |
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| 20th December New blog post: Looking forward and Looking back - ten years of Blogging |
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| 6th December My story 'The Stolen Shoes' will be in Enchanted Conversations - a Fairy Tale Magazine on 8th December. It's the Elves and the Shoemaker edition so no prizes for guessing what the story's about, but it's a complete switch-around. |
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| 28th November My story, The Horse Head Violin, is in the anthology: Children of a different Sky, edited by Alma Alexander. Buy in the USA. Or buy in the UK Proceeds to help refugees |
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| 28th November New post on my blog: My Top Ten Children’s Books – a Personal List |
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| 14th November New post on my blog: NaNoWriMo – almost the halfway point |
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| 30th October My blog post has news of my new book contract for Rowankind. |
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| 26th October My blog post about committing trilogy is up at Skiffy and Fanty: |
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| 20th October An interview by Carl Slaughter for File 770 |
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| 18th October My guest blog post is up at The Qwillery. |
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| 17th October There's a really thoughtful review of Empire of Dust here. |
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| 16th October My new blog post about The Writer's Pen is up now. |
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My 5th novel NIMBUS is published today. |
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| 3rd October My blog post 'They Came in Their Thousands,' about my Belgian refugee/World War One story is up on Alma Alexander's website. I have a story called The Horse Head Violin in her anthology 'Children of a Different Sky.' |
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| 3rd October My blog post is up on the Milford blog: 'Things I didn't Know When I started to Write a Trilogy' |
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| 3rd October My blog post 'Happy Book Day To Me' is up on my own blog. |
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26th September
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| 21st September New blog post I Am/Am Not a Word Machine |
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| 9th - 16th September Live Blogging from the Milford SF Writers' Conference | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd September All about the Zombies Need Brains kickstarter for the anthology I'm in: 'Second Round' |
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| 21st August Blogpost: What I learned about Tallinn that I couldn't have found in a Guidebook. |
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| 9th - 13th August Worldcon in Helsinki I have one panel on Sunday afternoon 13th August: 15:00 - 16:00, 216 (Messukeskus) History as World Building. Using knowledge and research of real-life history as world-building fantasy and science fiction. Thomas Årnfelt, Jacey Bedford, Heather Rose Jones (M), Jo Walton, Angus Watson |
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| 27th July New blog post: Bladdered or Shitfaced? The gentle art of word choice and the bogglement of page-proofing. |
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| 11th July New blog post Corwen Silverwolf Speaks |
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| 26th June New blog post History Lends Perspective |
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| 13th June New blog post Life, Death and the Writer’s Pen |
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| 16th May New blog post on Due Process |
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| 2nd May New blog post on Worldbuilding for a Series |
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| 20th April New blog post on Committing Trilogy |
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| 4th April New blog post on Cover reveal NIMBUS |
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| 22nd March New blog post on Stories Far and Near |
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| 21st February New blog post on Agent Update |
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| 17th February New Blog post available now on Keeping your Nose to the Grindstone. |
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| 10th February I'm sad to say goodbye to my literary agent, Amy Boggs, but delighted to announce that my new literary agent is Donald Maass of DMLA . |
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| 4th February I am interviewed for File 770. With a book giveaway. Thanks to Mike Glyer for hosting and Carl Slaughter for writing. |
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| 27th January My guest post on Beginning at the Beginning is now up at Unbound Worlds. |
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| 24th January My blog post on Ten Quick Tips for Writers is available now |
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| 16th January My guest post is up on the I Smell Sheep blog. Corwen speaks out. |
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| 14th January My guest blog on alt.history versus historical fantasy on Arched Doorway. |
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| 9th January My post on the publication of Silverwolf is up today on my blog |
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| 3rd January Great to see Silverwolf mentioned in new releases at Tor.com |
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| 3rd January What Has Milford Ever Done for Me? My guest blog post is up on the Milford blog today. |
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| 3rd January Nice review of Silverwolf from JoJo the Bookaholic: |
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| 27th December My Reading Year is now available on my blog |
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| 10th December I have a guest piece on Sarah Ash's blog entitled 'Too Many Books, Not Enough Time.' |
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| 30th November Busy writing the first draft of Nimbus so I paced myself alongside NaNoWriMo and committrd to writing 50,000 words during the month of November along with some of my other writer friends. I'm pleased to say we all succeeded. Congrats to Chris Butler, Kari Sperring, and Kayleigh Webb (who is also my publicist at DAW/Pengin RandomHouse). |
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| 28th November Overnight Success in only Sixteen Years is now available on my blog. |
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| 13th November The Pitfalls of Publishing or Lest I Forget is now available on my blog. |
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| 4th November First advance review of Silverwolf posted by Deborah J Walker on Goodreads from a review copy supplied by the publisher. "This is a glorious book, a voluptuous book (does that make sense?), brimming with fascinating detail, overflowing with action, brimming with emotion (it even wrung a tear from me: that's very unusual for a book." |
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| 1st November Head down, writing like mad. I'm pacing myself alongside NaNoWriMo to try and add at least 50,000 words to the first draft of Nimbus - the third Psi-Tech book due in October 2017. |
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| 29th October Spending today in the company of writer friends at Bristolcon - the lovely one-day convention in... Bristol. (You guessed.) Lovely to see: Terry Jackman, Liz Williams, Dave Gullen, Gaie Sebold, Ben Jeapes, Guy T Martland and many more. |
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| 26th October Two days in Bath on the way to Bristolcon, to take in the atmosphere and do more research for the Rowankind books set in 1800 and 1801. Silverwolf, the second Rowankind book, is due out in January 2017. Afternoon tea at the Pump Room is so perfectly British. |
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| 19th October I missed some Facebook messages and have only just found notification of a review of Crossways from November 2015 here at Kings River Life Magazine "You wouldn’t normally think of a 500-pages-plus novel as crisp, but Bedford packs a high-interest punch into each paragraph. Characters, plot and technology, plus way-out-there stuff: Crossways has it all." |
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| 17th October What's in a Name? is now available on my blog. |
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| 1st October MIlford 2016 is now available on my blog. |
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| 23rd September I'll be at Fantasycon-by-the-Sea for the weekend starting today. |
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| 10th September I'll be at Milford for the week beginning today. |
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| 30th August Cover Reveal for Silverwolf is now available on my blog |
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| 25th August Thoughts on Editing is now available on my blog |
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| 18th August Interview by Laura Seber at The Writers Thread |
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| 17th August My story 'Weird is the New Normal' is in the Alien Artifacts anthology edited by Joshua Palmatier and Patricia Bray. |
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| 6th August Gotten Tannoy and Trug is now available on my blog |
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| 2nd August Nice review of Empire of Dust at girlsguideto scifi.blogspot.co.uk |
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| 24th July Humour in Fantasy and SF is now available on my blog |
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| 21st July About Silverwolf is now available on my blog |
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| 5th July Science for Fiction Writers is now available on my blog |
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| 12th April Ten Commandments for a New Dawn my short story that first appeared in Nature Magazine last year, has been translated into Polish for Szortal magazine here. |
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| 10th April A guest post on the new Milford bursaries for writers of colour is up here on D A Lascelles blog. |
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| 9th April Carl Slaughter interviews me today at SF Signal. |
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| 8th April Today I'm speaking to the Birmingham Science fiction Group. 8.00 Briar Rose Hotel - upstairs function room. |
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| 31st March A 'good' review of Winterwood on The Good, The Bad and the Unread. |
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| 25th - 28th March I'll be at Eastercon in Manchester (Mancunicon) with two panels on Friday evening - on on historical fantasy and one on romance and SF crossovers. |
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| 21st March Details Details is now available on my blog |
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| 12th March Lovely mention for Winterwood on Sara Letourneau's Blog |
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| 11th March Good review of Winterwood at Fresh Fiction |
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| 6th March About Literary Agents and How to Get One - Part 2 - is now available on my blog |
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| 1st March Nice Winterwood review at The Book Adventures. |
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| 21st February About Literary Agents and How to Get One - Part 1 - is now available on my blog |
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| 19th February I was invited to write a piece on alternate history for SF Signal's Mind-Meld, but due to being accidentally missed off the 'meld' article I've ended up with a piece of my own. Thanks, Andrea. |
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| 19th February Another interview - this time at The Qwillery. |
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| 19th February Winterwood Cover is now available on my blog |
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| 19th February My interview at My Bookish Ways goes live today |
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| 16th February Pleased that Winterwood is a Night Owl Review Top Pick: "a fabulous plot and engaging storyline. Don’t miss this fantasy read. It’s quite unlike anything else on the market." |
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| 13th February Nice Historical Novel Society review of Winterwood. |
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| 13th February Thanks to Sherwood Smith for the nice mention for Crossways in her article on Book View Cafe entitled 'My Genre is Growing Up.' |
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| 10th February Interview here at Civilian Reader. |
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| 8th February Interview and book giveaway(US) in Urban Fantasy Investigations. |
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| 3rd February Nice to get a brief mention for Winterwood at Kirkus in their 'looking forward to... ' section |
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| 3rd February Guest post on Juliet McKenna's blog on the transition from SF to historical fantasy |
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BOOK DAY! Winterwood is published today! Yay! Happy Book Day to Me is available on my blog |
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| 1st February Another nice Winterwood review on the wonderfully titled 'No More Grumpy Bookseller' blog. |
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| 27th January. Absolutely delighted that Winterwood is included in Fiction Affliction at tor.com |
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| 22nd January Nice review of Winterwood at The Bibliosanctum. |
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| 20th January Fan Mail is now available on my blog |
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| 20th January I'm on Mind Meld today talking about my favourite spaceship |
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| 24th December A nice mention for Winterwood on the Barnes and Noble blog: "Winterwood is a perfect blend of magic, historical fiction, and romance—it truly has something for every reader." |
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| 16th December Winterwood is chosen as a TOP PICK in RT Magazine: "seamlessly blends history, magical lore, high seas adventure and romance into one fantastic story" |
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| 14th December Good review of Winterwood in Publisher's Weekly Whoo-hoo! |
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| 18th November My story Mort's Laws or Ten Commandments for a New Dawn has been accepted for translation into Polish at Szortal magazine. |
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| 18th November My story, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Panda is translated into Polish here at Szortal. |
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| 11th November I'll be at Novacon in Nottingham this coming weekend. I hope to see some of you there. I'm on a panel about urban fantasy on Friday, doing a reading from my upcoming book Winterewood on Saturday. |
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| 10th November My guest post on Jules Jones blog is up. Worry: The Gift thet Keeps on Giving. http://julesjones.dreamwidth.org/302376.html |
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| 29th October The artist responsible for my new book cover is the amazing Larry Rostant |
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| 29th October Winterwood cover reveal and giveaway on Fantasy Book Cafe. |
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| 20th October I'll be at Fantasycon in Nottingham this coming weekend. I'm on the 'Stealing from the Past; panel (Fantasy in History) on Friday 23rd October with Susan Boulton, Anne Lyle, Juliet McKenna and Toby Venables, and I'll be reading from my upcoming fantasy 'Winterwood' on Saturday 24th at noon. |
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| 4th October I delivered Winterwood to my editor today. It's due for publication in February 2016. |
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| 9th September I received an acceptance for my story The Last Wild Place this morning. It will be published in the November 2015 isse of Bloodbond. |
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| 31st August Crossways gets a good mention here. |
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| 28th August Nice to get a mention in Locus' new books list. |
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| 27th August My short story, The Oracle is Never Wrong, which first appeared in Alien Skin Magazine, is now live on the Beam Me Up Podcast. Log to www.beammeuppodcast.com and 451 |
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| 25th August I'm live on Tony Ballantyne's How Writers Write blog today. Thanks for inviting me, Tony. |
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| 18th August I've been invited to be a guest author at Sledge-Lit, Edge Lit's Christmas event held at the Quad, Derby on 21st November 2016. So loooking forward to this. |
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| 17th August I've been invited to be one of the anchor authors in a new anthology, Alien Artifacts, edited by Patricia Bray & Joshua Palmatier and published by Zombies Need Brains. It's the subject of a Kickstarter which is gathering momentum very nicely. Do swing by and check it out. |
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| 15th August My short story, Pitch, has been accepted for the anthology 'Thou Shalt Not' - edited by Alex Davis and due to be launched at Sledge Lit in November. It's about coveting... and that never ends well... :-) |
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| 7th August My short story 'The Urbane Fox' is running again in the August 2015 issue of Trysts of Fate - this time with my name spelled correctly. Thanks to Lee Ann Story for the repeat and correction. |
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| 26th July Who-hoo! I can now announce that my agent has just agreed a second book deal with DAW, this time for two more books, NIMBUS, the third Psi-Tech book, and SILVERWOLF, a sequel to WINTERWOOD (Due in Feb 2016). |
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| 6th July I'm guesting on Paul Kane's blog with an except from Empire of Dust. Read the first scene here: http://www.shadow-writer.co.uk/empire-of-dust.htm |
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| 2nd July I attended the two day 'Science for Fiction Writers' Course at London's Imperial College (organised by Dr. Dave Clements) and now feel as though my brain is dribbling slowly out of my right ear after experiencing two of the hottest days London has had in July, and being treated to/subjected to furiously brilliant academics expounding on the cutting edge theories and trends in their individual fields, from dark matter and time to plant genetics and 'catching a comet' (Philae lander). |
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| 30th June A report on the Shefield F & SF Social featuring Paul Kane and yours truly: https://sfsfsocial.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/sfsf-social-june-report/ |
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| 1st April Mirror Mirror. Long out of print, Mirror Mirror, which is more like Snow White Meets Six Wives of Henry VIII than a straight fairytale retelling is now up at alfiedog.com |
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| 30th March Lessons Learned and Applied - The Parallels Between Singing and Writing. I've contributed a blog post to Gill Polack's Women's History Month blog. This is a slightly rejigged and expanded version of the one that appeared on Ruth Booth's blog last year. |
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| 29th March The Loneliness of the Long Distance Panda has been accepted for translation into Polish by Szortal.com |
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| 26th March The Jewel of Locaria has been accepted for the May issue of Sorcerous Signals and Mystic Signals. |
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| 24th March The Oracle is Never Wrong will soon be available as a podcast at Beam Me Up |
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| 20th March Short Story now available online. Times Two is up and available to read for free at Saturday Night Reader |
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| 12th March Review of Empire of Dust by Joshua Palmatier. Posted here: http://jpsorrow.livejournal.com/457187.html |
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| 12th March Short Story Sale Mirror Mirror (Reprint) to Alfiedog.com (website) |
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| 20th February 2015 My story, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Panda, is up at Buzzymag.com. Go take a look. http://buzzymag.com/the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-panda-by-jacey-bedford/ |
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| 10th February 2015 Crossways - my second Psi-Tech novel - due for publication on 4th August 2015 is now up for pre-order on amazon co.uk and amazon.com. |
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Goodreads Book Giveaway Empire of Dustby Jacey BedfordGiveaway. (Now over. Winners announced.) See the giveaway details at Goodreads. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| io9's list... of the most exciting new fantasy and science fiction books out in November: http://io9.com/the-most-exciting-new-science-fiction-and-fantasy-books-1654859090 |
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Empire of Dust Review |
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Novacon 14th - 16th November |
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More Guest Blog Appearances6th November 2014 6th November 2014 4th November 2014 31st October |
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Short Story Acceptance |
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BOOK PUBLICATION DAY4th November 2014 |
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Bristolcon 25th October |
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Guest Blog Appearances22nd October 2014 21st October 2014 20th October 2014 17th October 2014 And don't forget to check out my blog |
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