News from Peter regarding the SFX Weekender he’s attending between Friday Feb 5th and Sunday Feb 7th:

For the SFX Weekender convention I’ll hopefully be there from about midday Friday onwards.  I’m driving down that morning after I’ve done the school run so I’m praying for reasonable weather and road conditions.  If you’re going please say hello -and no I’m not telling you who Aaron was.  I’m scheduled to be on the British SF panel at 17:00 to 18:00 on Friday; and then I’m doing a reading and Q&A session 18:30 to 19:00 on Saturday followed by a signing.  There seem to be a lot of rules about approaching the various media stars for autographs at this event, let me just say that this doesn’t apply to me.  If you have a bagful of books you want signing just bring them along, if it’s an exceptionally large bag you might get asked to go to the back of the queue but that’s all.  I’m also happy to sign stuff in the bar, because that’s where I expect to be most of the time.

The reading is supposed to be from an author’s most recent or forthcoming book, which might be interesting.  Every time I’m asked to do a reading I never know what section to read, however as most of you know Ozzie is returning (briefly) in Evolutionary Void I was thinking of the section where he makes his appearance.  Of course there are a dozen earlier books to choose from as well.  Anyone got a favorite bit?  I’m open to suggestions posted on Mark’s unisphere forum.  And if you all nominate the naughty bits from Misspent Youth you’re going to be disappointed.

Subterranean Press have a limited number of their limited edition of The Reality Dysfunction up on ebay US for $30 plus shipping. If you want a copy for a discount this is definitely the way to go!

EDIT: ALL GONE!

It arrived today! Some pictures:

I had an email earlier from Subterranean Press who are soon going to be shipping The Reality Dysfunction. If you’ve not ordered this limited edition you can still do so by visiting their site HERE! I’m really looking forward to get this through the post in the new year and will post photos once I’ve had it

I came across the Del Rey page for Evolutionary Void earlier and it’s got the release date down as August 31st 2010. Don’t read too much into it as it’s not been confirmed by Peter, but it gives a good indication that they plan on getting it out along with the UK release.

I’ve finally got the full gallery from the old site moved over to this one! I’ve made a few changes to it, although they should help with navigating it a little better. I’ve got the main gallery page here with links to each artist and their work – head over and have a browse

I’ve also managed to get permission from Manchu, the artist for the French releases, to put his artwork up on the site. These are some great pieces, my favourite of which is below:

Peter’s confirmed the pre-edit word count at 216,000 – slightly less than Temporal. He also said that this could get bigger, depending on what the edit comes back with.

Peter also mentioned that it looks like both the UK and US publication dates will be September 2010 – good news for US readers who won’t have to suffer a wait this time around!

Received an email from Peter earlier – he’s finished! Now to the start of the editorial process and to await the confirmation of a publication date. Watch this space…

After the Q&A session that Peter recently did with Pan Macmillan he had a few things he wanted to clear up

1) I’m currently only contracted up to the end of Evolutionary Void. So what happens next is as yet unconfirmed. However, what I’m hoping my publisher will agree to is the next book which will be a stand alone in (yet another) new universe. Also a collection of my short stories/novellas that have been slowly accumulating since A Second Chance At Eden.

2) Another duo or trilogy, set completely in the Void. Which is now not going to be quite so YA after all. It is set on another planet in a different section of the Void, at around the same time as Edeard was alive. But there is no connection between the two worlds.

Plenty of tidbits on possible future work, all of which I’d gladly enjoy!

Below are the two videos of the Q&A sessionthat Peter did with questions from fans and bloggers.