ORCS GRAPHIC NOVEL:
FRENCH PUBLICATION DATE

We now have a publication date for the French edition of Orcs: Forged For War, the all-new graphic novel penned by me and illustrated by Joe Flood (published in the US by First Second Books and in the UK by Pan Macmillan). 

Les Editions Gallimard will be releasing the book on 15th March.  I haven’t seen the cover yet, but I’ll post it here when it arrives.

GRAPHIC NOVEL
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The Discover Festival is described by its organisers -

“DISCOVER brings together a host of talent from the worlds of science-fiction, fantasy and horror for one huge weekend of activities. The perfect event for anyone with an interest in the genre, whether you're a die-hard fan or a casual reader or viewer.”

Other guests announced so far include Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Peter Hamilton, Graham Masterton, Mark Chadbourn, Adam Christopher, AJ Dalton, Tom Fletcher, Andrew Hook, Kim Lakin-Smith, Paul Magrs, Lou Morgan, Gareth L Powell, Gavin Smith, Gav Thorpe, Ian Whates and Conrad Williams. 

The Discover Festival takes place at the Snibston Discovery Museum & Century Theatre, Coalville, Leicestershire between Friday 18th and Sunday 20th May.  The official website is here.

Les Féeries Du Bocage, like Discover, debuts this year. 

I’ll be one of a host of authors and artists at this pure fantasy event.  Other guests include legendary French writer Pierre Dubois, and leading UK artists Paul Kidby and John Howe (tbc).  There are bands, too! 

Les Féeries Du Bocage takes place on 2nd and 3rd June at Salle polyvalente, 30 rue des Percherons 77 940, Voulx, France.  A full list of attendees and all details here.

Inferno, the final volume in my Orcs: Bad Blood trilogy, was published in the UK by Gollancz.  (The German edition, from Heyne, is already out, and the US edition, from Orbit, appears in April. 

Other foreign editions are published at various times this year - I’ll post the dates here as known.)

I’ve written a piece to tie-in with the publication of Inferno for the Gollancz blog,which is scheduled to go up on 6th January.

Both orcs trilogies became available as i-books from the UK and US i-tunes stores. 

The German and Italian editions of the first trilogy are also being offered. 

The orcs graphic novel, Forged For War, was shortlisted in the “Comicbook of the year” category of the second annual Geek Life Awards.  Voting closes on Friday 6th January.

My short story Juice appeared in Vivisepulture.  Edited by Andy Remic and Wayne Simmons, and described as “An all-new anthology of weird and bizarre tales of twisted imagination”

Vivisepulture is available for download (PDF, ebook and MOBI formats) from Anarchy Books.  

PS Art Books began publishing the complete run of classic 1950s fantasy comicbook
Forbidden Worlds. 

This first volume, reproducing issues 1 to 5 (1951/1952), has a foreword by me.

   The Orcs graphic novel entered the New York Times’ bestseller list.

A Special Repackaged Edition of the first two volumes of the Bad Blood trilogy -
Weapons of Magical Destruction and Army of Shadows -was issued by the Books Events company. 

The pair of hardback books come in a presentation box. 

Orcs: Forged For War, an all-new graphic novel written by me and illustrated by Joe Flood, was published in the US by First Second Books and in the UK by Pan Macmillan.

The audiobook of the first Orcs trilogy, read by John Lee and originally released by Tantor Audio in the US, was issued in the UK as a download by Orion.

  Heyne published the German version of Inferno, making it the world first edition. 

The British Fantasy Society celebrated its fortieth anniversary with the publication of the anthology Full Fathom Forty, which contains my short story Throwing A Wobbly.

I made a number of personal appearances in 2011, including Eastercon, The Write Fantastic’s Oxford event, the David Gemmell Awards ceremony (of course) and, on 9th September, I was a guest speaker at the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.  The Brum Group is the UK’s
longest-running sf club.  Check it out here.

The Mark Morris edited Cinema Futura, which came out from
PS Publishing in September 2010 and contains my essay on silent film classic Metropolis, was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Awards, non-fiction category. 

Romanian publisher Nemira released their edition of Warriors of the Tempest, the third volume in the Orcs: First Blood trilogy.

The third David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy were presented at the Magic Circle headquarters in Euston, London.  The Ravenheart Award (best fantasy book cover) went to Olof Erla Einarsdottir for Power & Majesty (HarperCollins Australia); the Morningstar Award (best debut novel) went to Darius Hinks for Warrior Priest (The Black Library), and Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings (Gollancz/Tor US) won the Legend Award for best fantasy novel.

The French rights to the graphic novel Orcs: Forged For War were sold to publisher Editions Gallimard. 

I’ll report on the publication date when I know it.

Bard Publishing House released the Bulgarian edition of Weapons of Magical Destruction, first volume of the Orcs: Bad Blood trilogy.  Somewhat confusingly, they adapted the American cover of volume two, Army of Shadows.  But what the heck.

Tantor Media released the audiobook version of Army of Shadows, read by John Lee. 

It joined the unexpurgated audiobooks of the Orcs: First Blood omnibus and Weapons of Magical Destruction (re-named simply Bad Blood in the US).