Gail Z. Martin UK signing schedule

Gail at BEA 2014

Gail Z. Martin will be joining team Solaris this summer for a whirlwind tour of our fair Isles, and because we were bought up properly we'd like to share the good times with you... So please do check out the below and add a date (or two) to your diary and come along to get your copy of Deadly Curiosities signed.

JULY

23rd (Weds) - Forbidden Planet, London HQ
Deadly Curiosities Launch Party!
Gail will be meeting, greeting and signing copies of Deadly Curiosities from 6 - 7pm 
(keep an eye on the Solaris twitter feed for details of a post-signing meet up nearby too)

31st (Thur) - Waterstones, Cardiff the Hayes
Bumper author party! Gail will be joining  Ack Ack Macaque author Gareth Powell and Blood and Feathers author Lou Morgan for mega-signathon:
Gareth and Lou will be signing from 5:30pm and Gail from 6:30pm

AUGUST

1st (Fri) - Waterstones, Edinburgh
Gail will be doing a stock signing, watch out on the twitter feed for updates on when you can catch her in action closer to the day.

Plus, because we don't like to leave anyone out you can virtually hang out with Gail (as well as plethora of other lovely authors) on US launch day! Join Gail and co at the Facebook launch party on Wednesday 25th June from 10:30 am to 10:30pm EST (those outside of EST can find out your local time here) where she will be answering questions, giving away free goodies and offering you the chance to win e-copies of Deadly Curiosities. There are rumours the party may spill out across reddit and goodreads, and with a line up like the one below we think those rumours will probably be true:

10:30 – 11 Gail Z. Martin
11 – 11:30 Pip Ballantine
11:30 – Noon Chris Verstrate
Noon – 12:30 Trisha Wooldridge
12:30 – 1 John Hartness
1-1:30 Leona Wisoker
1:30 – 2 Keith DeCandido
2-2:30 Cynthia Ward
2:30 – 3 Jim Lavene
3 – 3:30 Gail Z. Martin
3:30 – 4 Jennifer Brozek
4-4:30 Joshua Palmatier/Benjamin Tate
4:30 – 5 Tricia Barr
4-5:30 Clockwork Universe
5:30 – 6 Athena’s Daughters 
5:50—Gail Z. Martin—giveaway announcement
6-6:30 TBC
6:30 – 7 Kim Richardson
7-7:30 Tera Fulbright
7:30 – 8 Danielle Ackley-McPhail
8-8:30 Stuart Jaffe
8:30 – 9 James Maxey
9-9:30 Natasha Rhodes
9:30 – 10:30 Gail Z. Martin

Add it to your Facebook calendar now.

The Kitschies' Gothic Evening!

Wotcher all,

So I don't know if you're as excited as we are about the Kitschies' Gothic Evening, and I don't even know if you know about the Kitschies' Gothic Evening, but - uh. Actually, that's why I'm here. I'm posting now to totally tell you about the Kitschies Gothic Evening. Yeah.

So some of our favourite book folk - viz, Jared Shurin, Anne Perry and Rebecca Levene (and a growing number of excellent guest posters such as Tom Pollock, Lizzie Barrett and Den Patrick), also known as Pornokitsch, also known as The Kitschies - hosted an extraordinary and illuminating Steampunk Evening at Blackwells Charing Cross Road just a few months ago in December, as I'm sure you're aware (and if you're not aware, you may want to think about exactly where that puts you, vis-a-vis having you finger on the pulse of contemporary publishing; I'm not condemning you or anything, I just think you may need to rethink some of your life choices), and it was some sort of blast, with fantastic guests and good times had by all.

So now they're doing it again! Well, againish. Not steampunk this time. That's right, this time it's Gothic.

Awwwww, yeah.

The Kitschies are pleased as punch to be presenting (and I'm chuffed as chalk to be promoting) their frantically anticipated The Kitschies: A Gothic Evening, to take place next Thursday the 8th March, from 6pm to 8pm, at Blackwells at 100 Charing Cross, London.

And we're going to be there! That's right, kids, none, some, one or more of the Solaris and/or Abaddon crew will be present. Names will be taken. Asses will be kicked (we will be looking for both names and asses to facilitate this, so some sort of help with that will be appreciated).

More to the point, alongside some sort of roll-call of the awesome and sublime, the inspired and attractive Christopher Fowler will be there - he of the freshly-released, beautifully poignant and creepy-as-all-get-out Hammer-Horror-homage, Hell Train (Graham Humphreys cover pictured left) - getting all up in your grill with his blinding talent and his good-natured charm. And nobody wants to miss that.

It's going to be a fantastic evening, and a great opportunity to listen, watch, meet and chat. We look forward to seeing you there!

David

End of the Line launch party!

On Tuesday night we launched The End of the Line at Foyles on Charing Cross Road, London. Anthology editor Jonathan Oliver, and London-resident authors Pat Cadigan, Christopher Fowler and Adam Nevill spoke on a panel on horror fiction, and then held a signing. The panel was a success, with over one hundred and fifty people on the guestlist, the Foyles events manager said told us he'd never seen the events room so full!

Sounds like people had a great time, there have already been two write-ups of the event, one from writer Lou Morgan and one from the Dark Fiction Review.



Afterwards we held the launch party at the Phoenix Artist's Club, Soho, and the writers did what writers do best... make friends! (Did you think I was going to say drink? Well, to be honest, they did that too.)

Chris Fowler, Sarah Pinborough, Adam Nevill and End of the Line author Conrad Williams

David Bradley, editor-in-chief of SFX, and End of the Line author Al Ewing

Editor David Moore, Charles Rudkin, End of the Line author Gary MacMahon and Abaddon Books author Scott Andrews

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Signing in Bristol

Juliet E. McKenna informs me that she will be in Forbidden Planet, Bristol, on Saturday 24th October from 1 pm, along with Stan Nicholls, Chaz Brenchley and Kari Sperring. They'll be happy to sign books and to talk about reading and writing SF&F.

She says she's looking forward to meeting 'the fine readers of Solaris Books' so be on your best behaviour, ya hear? Wouldn't want to disappoint the lady.

It's an event organised by The Write Fantastic; a group of fantasy authors who work together to promote the genre - more info here - and more on Juliet here.