China Mieville, Steven Erikson, Peter F Hamilton, mass Signing Event in Cambridge

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Heffers Book Shop in Cambridge are organising a 'Mass Author' signing event for the evening of Wednesday 11th May, starting at 6.30 pm.

The evening is still taking shape but it will feature some of the biggest names in genre fiction as well as several debut novelists and those in between (me, for example! :rolleyes:)

Confirmed so far:

China Mieville
Steven Erikson
Peter F Hamilton
Trudi Canavan
Ian Whates
Mark Lawrence
Alex Scarrow
Paul Stewart
Chris Riddell

The evening will include some brief readings, a chance to mingle and talk with the authors... as well as the opportunity to purchase books, signed, and/or dedicated as preferred.

It would be great to see any Chroniclers who can make it! :)

Heffers, 20 Trinity Street, Cambridge. 11.05.11 6.30 pm
 
Several more authors confirmed:

Jasper Kent
Philip Reeve
Moira Young

This is to be a ticketed event, with tickets available in advance either over the phone on 01223 568568 or directly from the Heffers store in Trinity Street, Cambridge.

Tickets priced at £5.00 for adults,
£2.50 for children aged 16 and under.
 
Heffers Book Shop in Cambridge are organising a 'Mass Author' signing event for the evening of Wednesday 11th May, starting at 6.30 pm.

The evening is still taking shape but it will feature some of the biggest names in genre fiction as well as several debut novelists and those in between (me, for example! :rolleyes:)

Confirmed so far:

China Mieville
Steven Erikson
Peter F Hamilton
Trudi Canavan
Ian Whates
Mark Lawrence
Alex Scarrow
Paul Stewart
Chris Riddell

The evening will include some brief readings, a chance to mingle and talk with the authors... as well as the opportunity to purchase books, signed, and/or dedicated as preferred.

It would be great to see any Chroniclers who can make it! :)

Heffers, 20 Trinity Street, Cambridge. 11.05.11 6.30 pm

As honoured as I am to be included among so august an assembly ... this is the first I've heard of it. Am I trowelling egg onto my face & perhaps a different Mark Lawrence is attending, not the one whose debut 'Prince of Thorns' is due out in August?

I'd love to come but as the sole carer for a very disabled little girl I'm extremely restricted when it comes to this sort of thing.
 
As honoured as I am to be included among so august an assembly ... this is the first I've heard of it. Am I trowelling egg onto my face & perhaps a different Mark Lawrence is attending, not the one whose debut 'Prince of Thorns' is due out in August?

I'd love to come but as the sole carer for a very disabled little girl I'm extremely restricted when it comes to this sort of thing.

Hi, Mark, I can't comment on whether or not this refers to you or a different Mark Lawrence, I'm afraid. This is simply the list of authors Heffers have told me will be attending.

I can well imagine that caring for somebody in this way must restrict your opportunities to go to such things and greatly admire all those who do so. If this is you, I can only assume your publisher may have accepted on your behalf. I know a number of those attending are with the same house.
 
As indicated in the above posts, Mark Lawrence will unfortunately not be attending the event -- evidently his inclusion was due to a publicist jumping the gun and accepting the invite on his behalf without checking with the author.

However, two other authors have been added to the roster:​

Stephen Deas
Sophia McDougal

:)
 
As indicated in the above posts, Mark Lawrence will unfortunately not be attending the event -- evidently his inclusion was due to a publicist jumping the gun and accepting the invite on his behalf without checking with the author.

However, two other authors have been added to the roster:​

Stephen Deas
Sophia McDougal

:)

An excellent exchange no doubt!
 
An excellent exchange no doubt!

I'm sure that's not the case. Have to confess, I was looking forward to meeting you, particularly to discover why someone with your background and occupation ends up writing epic fantasy as opposed to SF... No reason why you shouldn't, of course, but it does seem somewhat counter-intuitive.
 
I'm sure that's not the case. Have to confess, I was looking forward to meeting you, particularly to discover why someone with your background and occupation ends up writing epic fantasy as opposed to SF... No reason why you shouldn't, of course, but it does seem somewhat counter-intuitive.

Ah well, I'm not sure I have written epic fantasy. When you get right down to it Prince of Thorns is pretty cross-genre.

As to why not SF ... well. There have been times when I've spent the day wrestling with the equations of orbital dynamics and it wouldn't have felt like much of an escape to go home write about space-ships in a book so dry as to preserve what science I know, or so readable as trample through it. But yes, there have been much better scientists than I who have chosen to write SF, so that's not much of an answer.

I guess it's because emotionally fantasy strikes more of a chord in me. I knew I loved fantasy long before I knew I could do sums.

I do enjoy SF on occassion, I've read EE Doc Smith, Asimov, Patrick Tilley, Edmund Cooper, John Wyndham, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, and Christopher Rowley who wrote the excellent 'Military Form' and later moved into fantasy ... so maybe one day I'll take a crack at it :)
 
I'll let my OH know - he loved "Romanitas", and not being the convention-going type, he doesn't get to meet these people otherwise. Well, apart from Ian, who's a local :)

I was on a panel with Sophia at Eastercon... well, I ended up moderating it with no preparation, as happened with virtually ever panel I was on.

I'd not met her before; what a lovely, intelligent, knowledgeable and forthright lady.
 

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