Ten years on since it was first published, and The Beauty has a fancy jacket, a companion in the accompanying novella The Arrival of Missives, and a wonderful introduction by MR Carey. It’s publication day today for the Solaris version, and for the first time there’s also an audio version. Happy tenth birthday, beauties! A… Continue reading Long-lasting rebellious beauty
I was having so much fun that I was sorry to see WorldCon in Glasgow come to an end. Huge thank you to everyone who said hello, listened to me talk about weirdness, or bought one of my books. The Solaris table even had early copies of the tenth anniversary of The Beauty for sale,… Continue reading Inhaling
WorldCon, the World Science Fiction Convention, will be taking place in Glasgow from Thursday 8th to Monday 12th August and, looking at the schedule, there are about a thousand things I want to do and see. There are also a few things that I’ll be involved in directly, so if you want to find me… Continue reading Destination WorldCon
A bit of short story anthology news. Look at this gorgeous cover (by Vince Haig): This is Heartwood, an anthology of short stories based on Robert Holdstock’s wonderful novel (and sequels to) Mythago Wood. It’s got an amazing line-up: I’m thrilled to have written a piece for this anthology, playing with the idea of stories… Continue reading Living in the woods with dragons
What’s this? Three Eight One, packaged under a new tag: The 2024 Best of British SFF Bundle, curated by Lavie Tidhar for StoryBundle. That’s a lovely tag to be able to add to the list of metadata for my quest adventure travelogue SF fantasy horror space cha novel. It’s available at a bargain price along… Continue reading A bundle of brilliant stories
The date has been set for this year’s Green Ink Sponsored Write event. It’s on 19th October, and a number of brilliant writers will be creating a piece of fiction in eight hours. The results will then be collected into an anthology for the eyes of the supporters, mailed directly to their Inboxes. I’m taking… Continue reading Pleasant Present
A few months ago I spoke to Interzone about my quest travelogue adventure with footnotes, Three Eight One, which is a book that’s very difficult to talk about, but we had fun trying. It was its own adventure. The chat also took in a bit of the process of writing structurally demanding things, and what… Continue reading IZ Podcast: 381 ways to attempt conversation
The novel I co-wrote with Oliver Langmead will be published by Titan in April 2025. This is a brilliant thing to be able to put on the blog because I’m hugely looking forward to seeing this book edging closer to publication. I had a blast working on it, collaborating with such a wonderful writer to… Continue reading City of All Seasons, but mainly next Spring
Isn’t this beautiful? It’s my copy of the anthology published today by Luna Press, ‘The Utopia of Us’, celebrating Yevgeny Zamyatin’s ‘We’. I wrote a bit about the inspiration I took from ‘We’ here. My story is very much set in the world of the novel, and looks at the importance of communal hope in… Continue reading We hope
It’s the first of May, which is the day when I remind everyone to read/reread The Arrival of Missives! Here’s a picture of the UK/US and Italian versions in the sunshine, surrounded by daisies, looking brief and sweet and healthy. A bit of a twist this year: the UK version is no longer available, due… Continue reading Missing May Day Missives?
Aliya Whiteley 