Exciting news! Book 2 of A Seared Sky, Partings, to be launched!
But before I get carried away....
In my last post I
almost explained my temporary absence from the scene for the past few days and
promised to let you know why, today. Nothing too exciting for readers, but we’ve been
preparing our house to sell up and move on. It’s now on the market (or will be
at the end of today). So, that’s why I’ve been away.
However, in
the meantime, something far more exciting for readers and, especially for me, has happened. My publisher has
announced the launch of book 2 of A Seared Sky. Partings will be available from
16 August and will be launched at FantastiCon in Hull, initially as an ebook.
But, hey, why should I keep all the good news to myself. Here’s a copy of the
Fantastic Books Publishing newsletter making the announcement in full.
The very first #SciFiHour at FantastiCon,
another upcoming release more short SF competition news!
This
week we have been collecting delegate bags to be used at FantastiCon and given to all our visitors! Now starts the
interesting job of filling them for you all…
So far Waterstones, Hull University and
the Copyright Licencing Agency have all come forward and offered bags
for FantastiCon. All
Golden Tickets holders will receive one and standard ticket holders will get
one on a first come, first served basis until they are all gone.
Inside the bags
we’ll be putting lots of fun stuff from local companies to check out while
you’re in Hull and also a few extra bits too. Because all our supporters are so
Fantastic, one of those extras will be… a random collector’s card from our
recently released FEF Collector card series! The rest of the series will be for
sale at the event but to get your collections going we thought we’d give you
all a card at the door to get you started. You’ll also all receive a new pen
that you’ll be able to use to navigate the fantastical world of Dave Hughes’
RPG ‘Elite Encounters‘ too.
And now news of
another first for the event. The very first #SciFiHour will be happening live
at FantastiCon! All you need to do to get involved is follow @SciFiHouron twitter and if you have any questions
about science fiction in general or would like to ask our Fantastic Elite
Fiction authors anything about their work, just add the hashtag #SciFiHour to
your tweet and they’ll be there to answer your questions live from the event at
9pm GMT from the bar of the Hull Royal Mercure Hotel.
How can you
help? Go follow @SciFiHour now and help us spread the word
people! #SciFiHour
And what of you
poor folks who who for reasons of geography or otherwise won’t be able to join
us at FantastiCon? Don’t
worry, we haven’t forgotten about you!
We currently plan to have a live feed from the event but if this turns
out to be technically impossible we have 4 roaming cameramen coming along and
we plan to create a documentary and will showcase it shortly after the
convention. We’ll also be taking lots of recordings of things like the book
readings, the author and actor Q&A, the Fantastic Awards Ceremony and the
wonderful John Levene, Barry Nobles and Simon Fisher-Becker chatting on stage
about Dr Who.
So, what’s happening with the short SF competition entries? Our judges
are battling away with each other and so far, after nearly 2 weeks of judging,
have not decided on a single story to remove from the list! Will the longlist
become the contents list for the anthology? Only time will tell but the judges
will need a little more time to sort it out amongst themselves. Watch this
space…
Also, some of
you have been asking about Stuart
Aken’s next book in
his ‘A Seared Sky‘ series following the launch earlier this
year of the first in the series ‘Joinings‘. We can reveal that the second book is called
‘Partings’ and will be available as an ebook in time for Stuart’s appearance at
FantastiCon in August. The cover for ‘Partings’ has been designed by the
wonderful Heather Murphy and a sneak preview can be seen at the top of this
blog.
Continuing on
the fantasy theme, Stuart will now be joined by good friend and fellow fantasy
writer Linda Acaster who will be speaking at the event
about how her fantastical world differs from the norm.
For those of you
unfamiliar with all our latest endeavours, why not sign up to our weekly
newsletter? You’ll find lots of interesting items in there and we
always give our newsletter subscribers access to our latest news first.
Just 16 days to
go until the inaugural FantastiCon! See you
there Commanders!
Just imagine,
Daniel and Gabi
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