In 2013, you can come poke me with sticks at the following places (updated frequently) :-
YOUNG ADULT FICTION PANEL (free!)
Location: Free Word Centre
Time: 6:30pm
Cost: free
Details: Panel avec awesome writers exploring the portrayal of gay and lesbian characters and relationships in YA fiction (I'm not on it, but I'm going and it will be bloody interesting)
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BOOK LAUNCH: SARWAT CHADDA
Date: Friday March 15th
Location: Dulwich Books
Time: 6:30 - 8:30pm
Cost: free
Details: Come celebrate the wonderful Sarwat Chadda's brand new book, avec nous!
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BOOK LAUNCH: RAYMOND FEIST
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Date: Monday 6th May
Location: Forbidden Planet, Shaftesbury Avenue, London
Time: 5pm - 6pm
Cost: free
Details: Megastar of fantasy fiction will be signing the LAST EVER Riftwar Saga book that began with Magician.
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BOOK LAUNCH: MATT HAIG
Date: Tuesday 7th May
Location: tbc
Time: 6:30pm - 9pm
Cost: free
Details: Matt Haig, author of the acclaimed The Radleys, launches his new book The Humans in conjunction with Booktrust.
Date: Thursday 6th June
Location: Daunt Books
83 Marylebone High St
London W1U 4QW
Time: 6:30pm
Cost: free
Details: Amy McCulloch is a hugely talented debut author and if you haven't heard of her book, get on it, yo. Or come to the launch and buy it there!
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Date: Thursday 27th June
Location: Forbidden Planet, Shaftesbury Avenue, London
Time: 6:00pm
Cost: free
Details: The sequel to Lou's awesome debut BLOOD AND FEATHERS launches - come help her celebrate!
NINE WORLDS GEEKFEST
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Date: Friday 9th - Sunday 11th August
Location: Radisson and Renaissance hotels near London Heathrow
Time: From Friday morning until Sunday afternoon
Cost: £85 adult, £42.50 child
Details: This is a brand new con designed to celebrate all things geek - from gaming to movies and tv to books, music and beyond. It will be amazing. Come get your geek on!
I'm confirmed for: a Game of Thrones panel on the Saturday at 10am, talking about the female characters in the series; and a New Voices Slam Session on the Saturday night at 10:15pm, where new writers give 5 minute readings of their work.
UPDATE: I also ended up emergency-stepping-in to moderate a YA panel with Cory Doctorow on it. Didn't sod it up. I call this a win.
BOOK LAUNCH: ERM.... MINE!
Date: Thursday 3rd October
Location: Daunt Books
83 Marylebone High St
London W1U 4QW
Time: 6:30pm
Cost: free
Details: Come help me get drunk as I celebrate my first ever book being published! There will be wine, snacks, and likely some sort of cake. At around 8pm we shall adjourn to The Marylebone several doors down and continue the festivities.
Invites will be going out at the beginning of July. If you don't get an invite but would like to come - drop me an email! I'd love to see you there.
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Date: October 8th, 7pm
Location:
Time: 7pm till late
Cost: free!
Details: A new literary night full of books and booze is back with a YA special. Join Nicci Cloke and Ian Ellard as they present a fine selection of readings by five authors – not to mention brand new, off-the-cuff stories created against the clock in a challenge more fiendish than the Hunger Games. There shall be splendid array of vintage tunes, cocktails and of course, Edward Cullen sat in the corner nursing a Bloody Mary.
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WORLD FANTASY CON
Date: October 31st - November 3rd
Location: Hilton Metropole Hotel, Brighton
Time: From Thursday night until Sunday afternoon
Cost: £125
Details: Basically the biggest Fantasy writing convention in the world this year. Read up on it at the site. I'm doing a panel on the Sunday at 12noon called How to Write That Second Book. COME LAUGH AT ME. And I'll be around the con on Friday evening and Saturday aussi.
Location: Dulwich Books
Time: 6:30 - 8:30pm
Cost: free
Details: Come celebrate the wonderful Sarwat Chadda's brand new book, avec nous!
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BOOK LAUNCH: ADAM CHRISTOPHER
Date: Thursday 4th April
Location: Forbidden Planet
Time: 6:00pm
Cost: free
Details: Come celebrate the launch of The Age Atomic and getchyor book signed by the man himself.
Location: Forbidden Planet
Time: 6:00pm
Cost: free
Details: Come celebrate the launch of The Age Atomic and getchyor book signed by the man himself.
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BOOK LAUNCH: LAUREN BEUKES
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Date: Monday 29th April
Location: Forbidden Planet, Shaftesbury Avenue, London
Time: 6pm - 7pm
Cost: free
Details: Arthur C. Clarke Award winner of Zoo City launches her fabulous new book, The Shining Girls.
Location: Forbidden Planet, Shaftesbury Avenue, London
Time: 6pm - 7pm
Cost: free
Details: Arthur C. Clarke Award winner of Zoo City launches her fabulous new book, The Shining Girls.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDS
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Date: Wednesday 1st May
Location: tbc
Time: tbc
Cost: tbc
Details: Always a great evening, and certainly one of the most prestigious SF awards in the world.
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Time: tbc
Cost: tbc
Details: Always a great evening, and certainly one of the most prestigious SF awards in the world.
BOOK LAUNCH: RAYMOND FEIST
Location: Forbidden Planet, Shaftesbury Avenue, London
Time: 5pm - 6pm
Cost: free
Details: Megastar of fantasy fiction will be signing the LAST EVER Riftwar Saga book that began with Magician.
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BOOK LAUNCH: MATT HAIG
Location: tbc
Time: 6:30pm - 9pm
Cost: free
Details: Matt Haig, author of the acclaimed The Radleys, launches his new book The Humans in conjunction with Booktrust.
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BOOK LAUNCH: THE OATHBREAKER'S SHADOW
Location: Daunt Books
83 Marylebone High St
London W1U 4QW
Time: 6:30pm
Cost: free
Details: Amy McCulloch is a hugely talented debut author and if you haven't heard of her book, get on it, yo. Or come to the launch and buy it there!
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BOOK LAUNCH: REBELLIONLocation: Forbidden Planet, Shaftesbury Avenue, London
Time: 6:00pm
Cost: free
Details: The sequel to Lou's awesome debut BLOOD AND FEATHERS launches - come help her celebrate!
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BOOK LAUNCH: CONTROL and THE WEIGHT OF SOULS
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Date: Thursday 25th July
Location: Forbidden Planet, Shaftesbury Avenue, London
Time: 6:00pm
Cost: free
Details: Kim Curran is author of SHIFT, and CONTROL is the sequel - both she and Bryony Pearce are Strange Chemistry authors and both have produced books that'll knock thy socks off.
BOOK LAUNCH: CONTROL and THE WEIGHT OF SOULS
Location: Forbidden Planet, Shaftesbury Avenue, London
Time: 6:00pm
Cost: free
Details: Kim Curran is author of SHIFT, and CONTROL is the sequel - both she and Bryony Pearce are Strange Chemistry authors and both have produced books that'll knock thy socks off.
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BOOK LAUNCH: CRUEL SUMMER
Date: Thursday 1st August
Location: Waterstones Clapham Junction, London
Time: 7:00pm
Cost: free
Details: Quite simply, James Dawson is the new Christopher Pike or RL Stine. Clever, fresh, twisty YA horror. Come check out his new book and quaff a bit of vino.
BOOK LAUNCH: THE GLASS REPUBLIC
Date: Friday 2nd August
Location: Forbidden Planet
Time: 6:00pm
Cost: free
Details: This is the sequel to the incredibly critically acclaimed, prize shortlisted book THE CITY'S SON. Tom is the new China Mieville, in case you needed a quick comparison. Come meet this wonder of the New Age.
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BOOK LAUNCH: CRUEL SUMMER
Location: Waterstones Clapham Junction, London
Time: 7:00pm
Cost: free
Details: Quite simply, James Dawson is the new Christopher Pike or RL Stine. Clever, fresh, twisty YA horror. Come check out his new book and quaff a bit of vino.
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BOOK LAUNCH: THE GLASS REPUBLIC
Location: Forbidden Planet
Time: 6:00pm
Cost: free
Details: This is the sequel to the incredibly critically acclaimed, prize shortlisted book THE CITY'S SON. Tom is the new China Mieville, in case you needed a quick comparison. Come meet this wonder of the New Age.
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LEAKYCON LONDON
Date: Thursday 8th - Sunday 11th August
Location: The Grand Connaught Rooms, London
Time: All day Thursday through to Sunday
Details: The famous Leakycon comes to London for the very first time! Amongst others, YA fiction authors Will Hill, Elizabeth Wein, Samantha Shannon, and Dawn O'Porter will be there.... o, and me. O_o
I'm on three panels; check them out plus the full schedule and speaker line-up here.
LEAKYCON LONDON
Location: The Grand Connaught Rooms, London
Time: All day Thursday through to Sunday
Details: The famous Leakycon comes to London for the very first time! Amongst others, YA fiction authors Will Hill, Elizabeth Wein, Samantha Shannon, and Dawn O'Porter will be there.... o, and me. O_o
I'm on three panels; check them out plus the full schedule and speaker line-up here.
NINE WORLDS GEEKFEST
Location: Radisson and Renaissance hotels near London Heathrow
Time: From Friday morning until Sunday afternoon
Cost: £85 adult, £42.50 child
Details: This is a brand new con designed to celebrate all things geek - from gaming to movies and tv to books, music and beyond. It will be amazing. Come get your geek on!
I'm confirmed for: a Game of Thrones panel on the Saturday at 10am, talking about the female characters in the series; and a New Voices Slam Session on the Saturday night at 10:15pm, where new writers give 5 minute readings of their work.
UPDATE: I also ended up emergency-stepping-in to moderate a YA panel with Cory Doctorow on it. Didn't sod it up. I call this a win.
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Location: Daunt Books
83 Marylebone High St
London W1U 4QW
Time: 6:30pm
Cost: free
Details: Come help me get drunk as I celebrate my first ever book being published! There will be wine, snacks, and likely some sort of cake. At around 8pm we shall adjourn to The Marylebone several doors down and continue the festivities.
Invites will be going out at the beginning of July. If you don't get an invite but would like to come - drop me an email! I'd love to see you there.
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Date: October 8th, 7pm
Location:
Time: 7pm till late
Cost: free!
Details: A new literary night full of books and booze is back with a YA special. Join Nicci Cloke and Ian Ellard as they present a fine selection of readings by five authors – not to mention brand new, off-the-cuff stories created against the clock in a challenge more fiendish than the Hunger Games. There shall be splendid array of vintage tunes, cocktails and of course, Edward Cullen sat in the corner nursing a Bloody Mary.
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WORLD FANTASY CON
Location: Hilton Metropole Hotel, Brighton
Time: From Thursday night until Sunday afternoon
Cost: £125
Details: Basically the biggest Fantasy writing convention in the world this year. Read up on it at the site. I'm doing a panel on the Sunday at 12noon called How to Write That Second Book. COME LAUGH AT ME. And I'll be around the con on Friday evening and Saturday aussi.
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