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Jul.03.2008
You'll excuse my enthusiasm here, I hope, but I've just concluded a six-book deal with Pyr, the highly-acclaimed US SF and fantasy imprint. This comes a day after I signed a three-book deal here in the UK with Random House's Transworld. I'm off to celebrate. Here's the full press release:
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Jun.19.2008
When writers discuss politics, there's always a certain class of people who get hot under the collar. What qualifications do you have to talk about something so important, they say. Stick to what you know - making stuff up.
Apart from revealing a basic ignorance about the craft of writing, that...
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Apr.08.2008
With The Burning Man published on April 17, I thought I’d supply one more brief extract in an attempt to whet appetites. This one comes from a few chapters in, so I won’t spoil the story with a scene setting:
The tiny flying figures swooped low, dipping in and out of the branches, following then...
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Mar.18.2008
US readers might be surprised to know that the primaries are dominating the attention of the rest of the world. They often head the nightly news bulletins from London to Lima, and the level of interest among the wider population - particularly in the UK - is unprecedented. Everyone knows the...
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Mar.12.2008
I've delivered the manuscript for The Lord of Silence to my editor at Solaris. The book, to be published in the US and UK in 2009, is "a sword and sorcery, noir, puzzle-cracking, romance, serial killer, adventure-mystery. With mad, dancing magicians."
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About Mark
A two-time winner of the British Fantasy Award, Mark Chadbourn is the author of twenty novels and one non-fiction book. His current fantasy sequence, The Swords of Albion, continues with The Devil's Looking Glass in February 2012. A former journalist, he is...
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