Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences

The Janus Affair Cover

January 9, 2012

It’s been a time for cover revelations, and here’s another one. The adventures of Eliza and Wellington continue in the Janus Affair, coming in late May this year. Evildoers beware! Retribution is at hand, thanks to Britain’s Best-kept secret agents! Certainly no strangers to peculiar occurrences, agents Wellington Books and Eliza Braun are nonetheless stunned [...]

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Christmas with the Ministry

December 20, 2011

It’s a busy time of year for everyone, and the run up to the final days before Christmas are crazy. So I’m ever so pleased that Harper Voyager picked Phoenix Rising as one of ten books that they are discounting for a limited time to 99c. And best of all this is a cross platform [...]

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Help the Ministry

November 2, 2011

Phoenix Rising is nominated for best science fiction of 2011 over on Goodreads.com. This is a big deal, and getting into the first round of competition is delightful and unexpected, but we need your help to get further. Getting the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences as much attention as possible goes toward getting more novels and [...]

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News on three fronts

October 27, 2011

It’s raining details over here right now…so here’s an update. Check out my appearances page for where and when I will be around. We have a selection of cool events Tee and I will be attending in 2012- the largest (so far) is DragonCon. It’s been awhile since I’ve dropped into the madness in Atlanta—2008 [...]

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New ventures

August 26, 2011

One of the joys of going to conventions, is the shot in the arm I often get to my creativity and way of looking at business. During WorldCon, Tee Morris and I sat down with our agent Laurie McLean, and we both realised we were missing a trick. You see, both Tee and I have [...]

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Eliza and Wellington—the audiobook

August 14, 2011

People have been asking Tee and I about getting hold of the audio version of Phoenix Rising. We’ve been doing a series of short stories set in the world of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, and one of those stories by Nathan Lowell is nominated for a Parsec Awards. However the rights to the full [...]

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Ministry May-hem

May 16, 2011

It’s been a crazy month in a crazy year. Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences novel was launched about three weeks ago, and it’s been go go go. We’ve done three readings and signings, and been editing the second book in those three weeks. But coming up are two even larger events. The first [...]

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Tick Tock…Tick Tock

April 27, 2011

Waiting for a book to hit the shelves is a curious thing. You’ve spent a long time with it, through edits, covers, conferences, more edits, worrying about it, and yet more edits. At times it seems it never will come out. Then one day the Advanced Reader copies come out and you think perhaps this [...]

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Once more into the breach dear friends…

March 9, 2011

  This week the final chapter of Digital Magic will drop, and while I am excited about that, I barely have time to breathe before plunging into another podcast frenzy. Yes, the very first Tales from the Archives has dropped. The story read and written by me is called The Evil That Befell Sampson. It [...]

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Two tiny tidbits

January 4, 2011

Already 2011 has begun with a bang. First off- Geist’s trailer (which Tee Morris produced) won Best Overall Adult at Parajunkee’s View. I am so delighted with this as Tee (and me to a certain extent) put such a lot of work into it. If I can wax lyrical about book trailers for a second. [...]

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Gute Nachrichten

December 3, 2010

Often I want to share news with you. Often I want to express my excitement. However these days I cannot just drop news, as I have publishers to consider. So I pretty much end up looking like a total tease. Then there are those times when I get the go ahead and I can share [...]

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Joining the Ministry

June 4, 2010

The big news- the news we announced at Balticon- is now out there. Coming in summer 2011 the project Tee Morris and I wrote and talked about many, many times whose working title is Books and Braun, will be published by Eos Books. Diana Gil will be working with us to whip this steampunk romp [...]

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PREVIEW; Books and Braun (Recorded Live at World Fantasy 2009)

November 15, 2009

I’ve teased people long and hard about this project, and now I have a little taste for you. Recorded before a live audience at World Fantasy Convention, award-winning podcaster and author Tee Morris and I (with the blessings of our agent) our work-in-progress now working its way through submissions: Books & Braun, our Steampunk take on The [...]

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Debut of Books and Braun

October 28, 2009

If you are going to be at World Fantasy Con on 31st of October, please come along and hear the debut reading of Books and Braun; Phoenix Rising. It will be the first chapter which is full of explosions, gun battles and maybe an airship or two. It is 10am Saturday and I would love [...]

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