Also, now that it’s official: I will be doing a signing at Forbidden Planet London Megastore on Feb 12th, along with John Meaney (to be prolonged by a drinks/food session afterwards). If our company isn’t enough to entice you, you’ll also have the chance to win a replica Aztec calendar at the event (and to be Tuckerised in John Meaney’s next book).

Details here. (if you want to see a picture of the replica stone, go here to the Angry Robot website. And, while you’re there, you can gawk at their latest cover art, for Ian Whates, Maurice Broaddus and Dan Abnett’s upcoming books, which looks stupendous).

So, back from Vietnam. I am officially 100% jetlagged, and propped up mostly by caffeine at this point. Here’s what seems to have happened on the interwebs (regarding my fiction) while I was away:

-Gill Polack offers thoughts on Servant of the Underworld, particularly on why it’s a very male-oriented book (on which I tend to concur)
-Antony at Science Fiction and Fantasy reviews the book:

Servant of the Underworld is an intelligent, involving and very rewarding novel which I have no hesitation in recommendation to one and all.

-Val reviews it at his blog:

An interesting and unusual setting, a well rounded main character (did you ever meet a priest of the dead being the good guy in a fantasy novel?) and a brisk pace. This novel has a lot going for it.

-Couple of reviews showed up at amazon, mostly bewildered by the names (a sentiment I can share, though I have to admit being puzzled by some of the names that gave them pause)
-Over at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, you can now listen to the podcast of my story “In the Age of Iron and Ashes” (it’s still up in issue 33 if you want to read it)
-Some love for “The Wind-Blown Man” (incidentally, the February issue of Asimov’s just turned up on my doorstep)