Yes, folks, it's true and I'm now allowed to talk about it. My new series is called Songs of the Drowned, and book 1 is titled The Stone Knife. It will be published worldwide in English on 12 November 2020 and you can read the press release here. I. AM. EXCITE! And terrified. It's been … Continue reading I sold a second series!
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What can I say? The day has arrived and my debut trilogy is now published. Cue the Frodo Baggins in Mount Doom "it's done, it's over" speech. Three books, when just seeing one in print had been my goal and dream for all of my adult life and probably longer. 400,000 words published, give or … Continue reading The end of the beginning
13-21 August 2019: Super Relaxed Fantasy Club, London - reading and Q&A - 13th Worldcon 2019, Dublin - 3x panels, 1x signing, 1 million drinks - 15th-19th Voyagercon, London - panel - 20th Signing Bloodchild limited edition stock, London - 21st People, it was A WEEK. An epic and hugely enjoyable week, but gods alive, … Continue reading The busiest week of my life
So, the signed and numbered, limited first editions - with sultry black sprayed edges - are making their way out into the world. The afternoon I spent in Goldsboro Books signing them (30 May) was a complete joy - not only is it a fabulous bookshop with that amazing book smell permeating its walls and … Continue reading Limited editions and audio files, oh my!
Like most hardcore fantasy fans, I do love a good map to help me visualise places, spaces and distances in what I'm reading. And I am, therefore, genuinely Christmas-morning levels of excited to confirm that Godblind will have a map! Said map will be created from a very rough, very awful, draft of a map … Continue reading It’s gonna have a map!
Completely thrilled to point you in the direction of the brilliance that is the Fantasy-Faction website, which is hosting the brilliance that is Godblind's cover art, complete with an associated waffle from me and insightful comments from Marc Aplin, FF founder and all-round awesome human being. Godblind cover reveal interview And for those who can't … Continue reading Godblind’s cover art revealed
So, I can confirm that final edits - structural, copy, line - have now all been completed and Godblind in all its glory is back with my publishers. Aside from a final proofread before it goes to print, the book is done! Written! Finished! Collapses in a heap. The next step on this crazy and … Continue reading It’s the ARCs, Mr Frodo! The ARCs are coming!
Last night was DHH Literary Agency's summer party. Held inside - and outside - Goldsboro Bookshop, it was an evening of improbably pink champagne (my head does not thank me this morning) and meeting the great and good of this weird new world called publishing in which I find myself. Having met only David Headley, … Continue reading Meeting the stars
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It's official! I have, really truly, honest, my-word-is-my-bond, agreed a three-book deal for the Godblind trilogy with Harper Voyager UK. Don't believe me? Official press release can be found on DHH Literary Agency's website. And on The Bookseller - ha, never thought I'd see my own name on The Bookseller. I've known about it for … Continue reading The big reveal – my three-book deal with Harper Voyager UK
Anna Stephens, word seeker 