Posts Tagged ‘dragon keeper’

• Book Tour Confirmed Dates in UK

  Date: 2009.06.14 | Category: News | Response: 20

  Update on the UK book tour for The Dragon Keeper.

  These dates, places and times are now confirmed.  More dates and events may be added but these ones are the confirmed ones.

  Monday, July 6

  6:30 PM
  Borders  Glasgow
  98 Buchan St.
  Glasgow, G1 3HA

  Tuesday July 7

  1:00 PM
  Waterstone’s Nottingham
  1/5 Bridlesmith Gate
  Nottingham NG1 2GR

  7:30 PM 
  Talk and Signing
  Waterstone’s Norwich
  11-17 Castle Street
  Norwich NR2 1PB

   

  Thursday, July 9th

  1:30 PM
  Signing
  Waterstones Bluewater
  West Village, Greenhithe
  Bluewater
  DA9 9SE

  7:30 PM
  Talk and Signing
  Waterstones Manchester Deansgate
  91 Deansgate
  Manchester
  M3 2BW

  Friday, July 10

  11:30 AM
  Stocksigning (not a public event – just write my name in books in the store!)
  Waterstones Stained
  77 High Street
  Staines TW18 4 PQ

  1:30 PM
  Signing and Talk with Book Group
  Waterstones Basingstoke
  35 WesleyWalk
  Basingstoke  RG21 7BE

  7:30 PM
  Talk and Signing
  Waterstones Southampton
  69 Above Bar
  Southampton SO14 7FE

  Saturday, July 11th

  1:00 to 2:00
  Forbidden Planet

  And that is as much as I know right now!

  Robin

   

• Back to the Rain Wilds again

  Date: 2009.05.29 | Category: News | Response: 13

  Another busy day.  I have writing to do, weeding to do, a house to tidy and an airport run to make.

  So, of course, I’m here, doodling around when I should be working!

  As you may have noticed, I’ve changed the userpic for the journal.  The above shot is from the book trailer for The Dragon Keeper.  It’s a closeup of Thymara.  Makeup is by Cast of Thousands, operated by Tacoma artist Tim Peirson.  I’ve been very impressed with his work, and he has been a pleasure to work with.  There will be more on this later when the trailer is completed and uploaded.  For now, I will add only that I was incensed by a chance remark:  "You can’t do film in Tacoma. There’s no talent pool." 

  What?!

  So, the book trailer is definitely a very Tacoman production, featuring Tacoma talent exclusively. Not that I have anything against Seattle or Olympia or any other pool of talent.  I think that creative people everywhere ought to be given a chance to succeed.  I especially enjoy, however, working with local people on things like this.

  Progress on The Dragon Keeper?  It will come out from Voyager in the UK and  Australia in late June, early July.  I’m also now scheduled to do a book tour of the UK from July 4 to July 12. And I’ll be spending an extra week afterwards just to wander around London a bit and see the sights.  Scroll down slowly and with great pleasure, enjoying the scenery along the way, to see Jackie Morris’ cover art for The Dragon Keeper.

  Dragon Haven, the concluding volume, has been turned in, but not yet edited. At the current time, I’m working on a story collection that is due December 2009, and on a longish story for the anthology Star Crossed Lovers, edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois.

  More later, and in a more timely fashion.

  It has come to my attention that I am apparently ‘twittering.’

  Heads will roll!

  Robin