Jasper Kent

I'm currently participating in a horror author round table over at SFFWorld, along with Tim Marquitz and Lincoln Crisler.

You can read all the posts here: http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?p=665172

For anybody who's attending the British Fantasy Convention at the Royal Albion Hotel in Brighton from 30th September to 1st October. I'll be appearing at a number of events:

Mass Signing
Friday 8pm - 9pm in the Regency Lounge

'Favourite Books' Panel
On the panel will be Gwyneth Jones, Rob Shearman, Nick Royle and Peter Crowther, along with myself.
Saturday 9pm - 10pm in the Fitzherbert room

Reading
Not sure what I'll be reading yet - possibly something unpublished.
Saturday 10.30pm - 11pm in room 134

I'll be generally around the place for the rest of the time, along with a galaxy of other Horror, SF and Fantasy authors.

Twelve has been included in Transworld's Book Group Reading Challenge. Choose any four books (that's to say Twelve plus any other three) from the list of fifteen and be sent copies to review on Amazon or on your own blog.

Full details here.

Full Fathom Forty - artwork by Bob Eggleton

My short story Ben will be featuring in the British Fantasy Society's fortieth anniversary anthology, Full Fathom Forty.

The anthology will be published at the end of September in time for the British Fantasy Convention in Brighton, and a fee copy will be given to all BFS members.

A full list of contributing authors and ordering details for non-members are available. A Brief description of the story Ben can be found here.

As you'll have noticed if you're reading this, the website has undergone a complete overhaul.

I hope you like it, but if you have any problems or comments, please contact webmaster@jasperkent.com.

Thirteen Years Later makes it to Booklist Magazine's top ten SFF for 2011. See the online version here.

BIG NEWS!

Transworld have now acquired books 4 and 5 of The Danilov Quintet, taking us right through to the end of the series. Full details here.

If anyone is going to be near Cambridge on Wednesday May 11^th, I'll be appearing at Heffers bookshop on Trinity Street along with China Mieville, Peter F. Hamilton, Ian Whates and several other leading SFF authors. The event starts at 6.30pm. Tickets £5. Details here.

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