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Jim Blaylock’s credentials and achievements are almost too many to list! He is the author of nearly twenty published novels and numerous shorter works. His 1978 story ‘The Ape-Box Affair’ is acknowledged as the first Steampunk story and the many further adventures of his much loved character Langdon St. Ives, in both shorter and longer forms (notably in the Philip K. Dick Award winning novel HOMUNCULUS and LORD KELVIN’S MACHINE) have made him the central figure in the original Steampunk triptych alongside Tim Powers (also represented by Zeno in the UK) and K.W. Jeter. He continues to collaborate with Powers, maintaining a partnership that has lasted since the two met in college back in the mid-70s and one only occasionally hampered by the interference of William Ashbless.

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Samit Basu is a 30-year-old Indian writer of novels, short stories, comics and screenplays.

He has written three epic/adventure fantasy novels, The Simoqin Prophecies which was published by Penguin India in 2003, by Ordbilder Sweden in 2005 and in Germany by Piper Verlag in2006 – The Manticore’s Secret, published by Penguin India in 2005 and The Unwaba Revelations, published by Penguin India, 2007. These were the first works of fantasy by an Indian in English and were all bestsellers in India. Read the rest of this entry »

Born in Liverpool, Matthew Hughes moved with his family to Canada when he was just five years old and in his own words “I’ve made my living as a writer all of my adult life, first as a journalist, then as a staff speechwriter to the Canadian Ministers of Justice and Environment, and — from 1979 until a few years back– as a freelance corporate and political speechwriter in British Columbia. I am a former director of the Federation of British Columbia Writers and I used to belong to Mensa Canada, but these days I’m conserving my energies to write fiction.” Read the rest of this entry »

Ben Aaronovitch was born and raised in London and all his work has reflected his abiding fascination and love for what he modestly likes to refer to as the ‘Capital of the World’.

In his youth he wrote for Doctor Who (his ‘Remembrance of the Daleks‘ is regarded as a classic by many) Casualty and the late lamented space soap Jupiter Moon – a show so low budget that you were only allowed seven of the regular cast in any given episode! Read the rest of this entry »

The multi-award winning author of  The Light Ages, House of Storms, The Great Wheel and a host of short stories and novellas, Ian R. Macleod has become one of the most distinctive and exciting voices in British science fiction – a fact born out by his most recent novel Song of Time (PS Publishing) winning the 2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award… Read the rest of this entry »

United Kingdom and British Commonwealth only: Represented in these territories on behalf of The Rappaport Literary Agency.

Colin Harvey is the author of Vengeance (2005), Lightning Days (2006), The Silk Palace (2007) and Blind Faith (2008), as well as about twenty short stories in various magazines such as Ireland’s Albedo One.

His new novel Winter Song, about a highly-evolved human who crash lands on a forgotten colony planet and his desperate struggle to get off it; and forthcoming novel Damage Time, about a detective in NYC hunting stolen memories that are posted on the net for entertainment have been been sold to Marc Gascoigne at Angry Robot. Winter Song is scheduled for release in October 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

Chris Schuler has dropped us a line to tell us about the launch of his brand new blog, Notes in the Margin – “A new blog concentrating on books, publishing news, and literary anecdotes.”

Notes in the Margin can be found here.

Ellen Datlow has posted the table of contents and the fantastic cover art for her upcoming anthology Lovecraft Unbound, over on her livejournal page.

The book is to be published by M Press in October and features a fantastic line up of authors – including Michael Chabon, Joyce Carole Oates and our own rising star Lavie Tidhar. His story is entitled One Day, Soon and was previously mentioned by the author in this interview that appeared on the Apex Book Company web site last October.

Aliette de Bodard is a Computer Engineer who moonlights as a speculative fiction writer in her spare time. She graduated in 2007 from Ecole Polytechnique, one of France’s top engineering schools, and went on to find a job which involved two of her loves, mathematics and programming computers.

She was already writing science fiction and fantasy short stories during her studies, though it took her a few years to get them published. She won Second Place in Writers of the Future in 2006.

Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in places such as Interzone, Black Static, and Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. She currently lives in Paris… Read the rest of this entry »

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Stephen Volk is the creator/writer of the multi award-winning ITV drama series Afterlife starring Lesley Sharp and Andrew Lincoln, and the notorious, almost legendary, BBCTV ‘Halloween hoax’ drama Ghostwatch.

An established screenwriter in Britain and the USA, his credits include Ken Russell’s Gothic, a retelling of the Mary Shelley/Frankenstein story; The Guardian, directed by William Friedkin, and Octane.He also won a BAFTA for his short film script The Deadness of Dad starring Rhys Ifans. Read the rest of this entry »

The February 09 issue of Apex Magazine leads with a brand new Lavie Tidhar story entitled Dark Planet. Follow this link to read it free online. Also in this issue is the latest of Lavie’s entertaining essays in his Confessions of a Book Junkie series – be sure to check out the back issues for more of these if you missed them first time around.

Strange Meeting, Chris Schuler‘s fascinating article about  his trip to Kalingrad is available to read online over at The New Statesman web site.

That indispensable and very excellent genre site Suvudu has put Five Questions to Peter V. Brett, author of The Painted Man, published here in the UK by Voyager and soon to be released in the US by Del Rey under the title The Warded Man. This superb fantasy has now sold into ten territories and negotiations are afoot for further sales.  Book two in the series, The Desert Spear is due out later this year.

‘An absolute masterpiece… for me, the novel was literally “unputdownable,” and certainly deserves to be the next Big Thing in dark fantasy.’ — Horrorscope (Australia) on The Painted Man.

E J Swift is a writer specialising in fantasy and Science-Fiction. She wrote her first novel, Falling Ash, before university, and since then has developed her style through a variety of projects including short stories and scriptwriting.

Whilst studying for her BA, she was involved with the Manchester In-Fringe Theatre Festival, co-writing and directing The Installation, a piece about clinical depression, in 2005. Emma spent eighteen months living and working in Paris before returning to London to complete the MA in Creative Writing Programme at Royal Holloway, when she wrote her most recent novel, Osiris. Read the rest of this entry »

United Kingdom and Europe only: Represented in these territories on behalf of Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management.

Will Elliott is a 28 year old writer who lived below the poverty line while honing his craft.

His début novel, The Pilo Family Circus, was published after winning the ABC Fiction Award, beating 900 entries from across Australia. Read the rest of this entry »