Nessie Signing This Saturday!

It’s Nessie Release Day! Signing in Bristol this Saturday!

Nessie Signing This Saturday!

This coming Saturday, 20th September, at 1pm, Rachael Smith and I will be signing copies of our graphic novel Who Killed Nessie? at Waterstones Piccadilly in London!

Then, on Saturday, 27th September at Noon I’ll be signing the book at Excelsior Comics in Bristol!

And on Friday, 10th October at 7pm, Rachael and I will be participating in the Avery Hill Publishing Launch Party at Gosh! Comics in London!

You can read all about the book, and see lots of sample pages, here.

And you can order it here direct from the publisher.

You can also pre-order it from Amazon UK and Amazon US. (It’s out from Amazon tomorrow, 18th September.) And from all good bookstores and comic shops.

The Lychford Collection

Up for pre-order, and coming out on 14th October is The Lychford Collection, which contains my first three Lychford novellas.

The Mighty Avengers vs. the 1970s (now with preview pages!)

I’ve got a book coming out from Bloomsbury that’s part of a new range of popular studies of Marvel Comics! The Mighty Avengers vs. the 1970s is fully illustrated with panels from the comics, and is my journey through how Marvel’s main super team navigated that difficult decade. This is very much a labour of love for me, a book I’ve wanted to find a way to write for the longest time.

You can get the book directly from the publishers (and from all good booksellers) on 13th November. (And that link now has preview pages from the book, showing off our lovely full-colour art!)

Thought Bubble & Mercer Gallery Exhibition

Lizbeth Myles and I will once more be tabling at the wonderful Thought Bubble comic convention in Harrogate on November 15th and 16th. (You can find the full list of exhibitors here.)

And Vision & Labour: Making Comics, The Art Of Avery Hill Publishing is an exhibition at the Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate which is going to be running between 18th October and 26th April. (Neatly over the weekend of Thought Bubble.) To quote from the press release:

‘Harrogate’s Mercer Art Gallery has teamed up with indie publisher Avery Hill Publishing to create an exhibition showcasing some of today’s most exciting comics creators. Opening in October in time for this year’s Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival, the exhibition offers a fascinating glimpse into the work of leading comic artists, and an important snapshot of the UK comics landscape over the past decade.’

Included in the exhibition will be a display case featuring the process of Rachael Smith and I making Who Killed Nessie?!

I’m really looking forward to it, and I very much want a copy of Kristyna Baczynski’s poster below.

Of Intrigue and Espionage

I have a story in this just-announced forthcoming volume from Stars and Sabers publishing, which is due out in October 2026. I’m in good company, as you can see from the full announcement here.

Cosmic Lighthouse and Salvation’s Child

Cosmic Lighthouse is the brainchild of myself and Lee Harris, with Anthony Cronin helping out with the day to day business. I’m the Editor-in-Chief. Our mission is to publish original graphic novels by bestselling SFF authors. Our first title is Salvation’s Child, the digital graphic novel Prologue to Adrian Tchaikovsky’s best-selling SFF novel series The Final Architecture. It’s by Adrian himself, artist Mike Collins, colour artist Pippa Bowland and letterer Simon Bowland. We’re publishing it together with our partners ComiXology.

Preview pages here.

Pre-order links at Amazon US and Amazon UK.

You can read more about the company and the project, with biogs, blurbs and histories, in our press release here.

And you can find Cosmic Lighthouse at these links on BlueSky and Instagram.

Salvation’s Child will be released by ComiXology Originals in 2026!

Telefantasy Time Jump

The new podcast from me and Lizbeth Myles covers the history of SFF on TV, from 1953 onward, with our regular episodes (on the 14th of every month) covering a show released that year in the UK, and the Patron Bonus episodes (on the 28th) covering a show from the rest of the world. The shows for September (covering 1961) are A for Andromeda and The Avengers and we’re still unsure about the rest of the world episode. The main episode is available free wherever you get your podcasts. To get the bonus episode, you need to follow us on Patreon at £3/$3 or above. (And you get access to seven years of Hammer House of Podcast bonus episodes!) You can find all the info here.