From the office
12th February 2016
Jon: Having just finished the edits on Jonathan Strahan’s brilliant Best of Science Fiction and Fantasy I am now doing the structural edits on City of Ice, K.M. McKinley’s follow-up to The Iron Ship. I love McKinley’s world; it’s complex yet compelling and the characters are so well written. In other news, I have almost finished writing a short story called Star Crossed Lovers for the Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu anthology being edited by Jonathan Green. I have also thoroughly enjoyed my first Diana Wynne Jones book, Howl’s Moving Castle, and the good lady wife and I have been enjoying BBC’s The Hollow Crown. Shakespeare at its best.
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David: I’ve had a busy couple weeks producing and uploading eBooks, so this week’s been partly about catching up on other stuff. Mostly clearing the email inbox, but I’ve also been sorting out cover commissions for the next Gods & Monsters and Weird Space books, which I have to say are going to pretty damn cool. I’ve also returned to the word face for some old-school editing: right now I’m tackling the next instalment in E. E. Richardson’s Ritual Crime Unit series, which sees DCI Pierce revisiting an old, unsolved case, involving a serial killer…
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Ben: It’s February, so I/we must be working on books for the back end of 2017 and beyond – which is to say, discussing commissions. We’re also looking at books out in May and June, i.e. what we are sending to print, and books out in the next nine months, ergo: books we have a sales conference for in the coming weeks and are assembling the > Ben is also currently running a Kickstarter – check it out!
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Rob: This week has been a constant stream of new releases, including Clifford Beal’s swashbuckling The Guns Of Ivrea, Chuck Wendig’s The Complete Double Dead, and Operation Honshu Wolf, not to mention a lovingly repackaged omnibus of Toby Venables Guy of Gisburne novels. That aside, it’s been a week of learning. I learned, for example, that you can always sell the bible. A bible salesman at a marketing course told me that, so it must be true. I also learned that Ant-Man is a big smelly turd, but that Gardens of the Moon is not. I foresee more Malazan in my future.
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