A Rather Hurried Catch-up

I can’t believe how much I’m doing at once right now. But it all still seems to be working out. First up, I’d like to thank Mark Salter, who’s generous £200 donation towards the Japan relief effort gets his name featured as a Metropolitan Police Sergeant in my new novel, out next year from Tor. Well done, Mark.

I look forward to seeing some of you at my signing at Chaos City Comics in St. Albans tomorrow, from 1pm. I’ve done an interview about it (and my writing in general), for the Herts Advertiser. And you can see three preview pages of what we’re mainly talking about (I think that’s as many as we dare show for fear of giving the game away), that is, Action Comics #899 here.

I hugely enjoyed C2E2 in Chicago. What a brilliant audience, many of whom hadn’t been to a comic convention before. I signed and signed and signed, notably an enormous combat spoon, and did many interviews, of which this first video one is up, with Newsarama. The beard takes on a life of its own in that. It’s like they’ve captured bigfoot. Also out of the blocks is the (thankfully on audio) Word Balloon Comics Podcast. The lovely Gene Ha has many pictures from the convention floor, and also from the dinner we shared with Bill Willingham and the invited guests of Fables. That was a brilliant night, as was the one where the Middleman crew met the Chicks Dig Time Lords crew. And there was much partying, and much random wandering of halls and bars and room parties. It was great to be on the DC panels as well, and to meet so many new friends. Thanks to one lady’s generosity, I now have a Shaun of the Dead cricket bat, which I have promised to somehow use for the beard appeal. I await your suggestions.

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