I am very pleased to announce that Moorcock’s Miscellany are holding a contest to win three copies of Michael Moorcock’s new Jerry Cornelius story, ‘A Twist in the Lines’, the twenty-seventh title from Piece of Paper Press.
All you need to do is to email them with the answer to a very simple question!
More info on the Moorcock’s Miscellany website, or click through the great image below:
Strange Horizons just ran a very positive short review by Niall Harrison of Shackleton’s Man Goes South, which concludes that ‘it’s certainly the most distinctive and formally creative novel I’ve read this year.’
Harrison then deadpans a favourable comparison (and grouping) of Shackleton’s Man Goes South with ‘the year’s second museum exhibition science-fictional tie-in literary experiment’, Hari Kunzru’s very well received Memory Palace novella and exhibition currently at the V&A.
Shackleton’s Man Goes South, paperback in display case. Image: Science Museum
The brilliant Situations, who produced Missorts, my permanent soundwork for Bristol that launched at the end of last year, are holding a book cover design competition for a forthcoming paperback edition of my novella Missorts Volume II, which was first published as a free ebook last year to accompany the soundwork.
I’m really excited about the competition. Missorts Volume II means a lot to me, and so I am very excited to see how designers might respond to the novella.
Here’s what Situations say on their website:
The 2013 Book Cover Design Prize is a one-off open call for artists, designers and illustrators based in the South West, UK
We are seeking an intriguing and eye-catching cover design for the first printed edition of a Bristol-based novella Missorts Volume II by author Tony White.
Published in November 2013 in a limited edition of 250, this will be the first print version of the novella, which was published by Situations as a free e-book in November 2012, to accompany Tony White’s permanent public sound work, Missorts.
Situations is a Bristol-based visual arts organisation. We are committed to providing sustained support in talent development and are launching an open call to artists and creatives from the South West to conceive a cover design that will capture the intrigue, personal stories and Bristolian context of the novella. Entrants will have their work reviewed by a panel of leading experts including Emily King, design historian and former editor of Frieze magazine, and Fraser Muggeridge, award-winning graphic designer and educator.
What you will win:
– £350 prize
– 10 complimentary signed copies of the limited edition novella
– A national PR campaign including Bristol and London launches of the bookDeadline is Monday 2 September 2013 at 12pm
A designers toolbox, including guidelines and FAQs, logos, a complete text of Missorts Vol.II and design templates can be found here
For anything else: missorts@situations.org.uk
0117 930 4282
or use @Situationsuk or #missorts to talk to us on twitterFurther information about the Missorts public artwork can be found at www.missorts.com
Click here to open the Asian Eastenders flyer (opens as PDF) for the event that I’m doing at the Idea Store Whitechapel on Saturday 20 July. I’m delighted and honoured to have been invited to read from my novel Foxy-T as part of Asian Eastenders for the Cockney Heritage Festival on the 10th anniversary of the novel’s publication by Faber and Faber. Booking is recommended! Click-through this Googlemaps Streetview photo for the eventbrite page.
I’ve been enjoying people’s tweets and photos as they receive their copies of the Piece of Paper Press edition of ‘A Twist in the Lines’ by Michael Moorcock. Here is a selection. My favourite has to be @badaude’s ‘doll-sized’ photo, featuring Olive Oyle.
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of my novel Foxy-T by Faber and Faber — in July 2003 — so I am delighted and honoured to have been invited by Whitechapel Idea Store to give readings and a talk at Asian East Enders: Urban Identity and Culture on Saturday 20 July, as part of the Cockney Heritage Festival. The festival celebrates Cockney history and culture and is organised by Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives and The Cockney Heritage Trust. The event is free but booking is recommended. Click-through the poster or here for bookings.
Do come along! You can find out more about Foxy-T elsewhere on this site: articles here and here. Foxy-T also now has an official Facebook Page. It is a great thrill to me that Foxy-T has continued to have been written about in the years following publication. There are some press quotes in the sidebar on the left of this page, and more in the Press section.
As the tenth anniversary of the publication of my novel Foxy-T approaches, and encouraged by some positive responses to this news, I created an official page for the novel on Facebook. There was no such thing as Facebook when Foxy-T came out. In fact 2003 feels like a pre-digital age; lost on the other side of some social media event horizon. If you visit the page you will see that it links to a selection of the amazing reviews and write-ups that Foxy-T has continued to receive in the years since publication.
If you enjoyed Foxy-T, and you are on Facebook, then do please consider ‘liking’ the page, linking to it or tweeting about it! If you haven’t read Foxy-T you can buy it from the Book Depository, or order one from your local independent bookshop! 
The Science Museum have released the last of three free audiobook extracts from my novel Shackleton’s Man Goes South, published as their Atmosphere commission for 2013. The extracts can be listened to on the Museum’s SoundCloud page, via the SoundCloud widget here, or downloaded to your own devices. As with the previous two extracts, which can be listened to here and here, the theme and incidental music is composed by Jamie Telford.
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