Rocket Science "Superb" - The Guardian

The Guardian have reviewed Rocket Science very favourably, calling the collection "superb". Read the whole review here.

This week on "Introducing the Author"...

http://rocketsciencenews.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/introducing-the-authors-sean-martin/

Rocket Science Launches on Sunday

Rocket Science, the anthology of sci-fi and sci-,...er, non-fi, is being launched at EasterCon on Sunday 8 April. Easter Sunday, in fact. Edited by Ian Sales and published by Mutation Press, the book is a collection of hard sci-fi and non-fiction pieces. My contribution is a story called "Dreaming at Baikonur". So, if you're at EasterCon, and not going to see George RR Martin, come along to the Rocket Science launch! Enough said. (I won't be able to go, as I'm at another festival, Tip of the Tongue, on Jura, but shall be there in spirit. No pun intended!)

The Ghosts of the NW3 Literati

I've made a modest contribution to Jen Campbell's new book, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops, which is out now. The comment came from a customer many years ago when I was doing a lengthy stretch at Waterstone's in Hampstead. The customer in question got the title of a well-known book by CS Lewis a tad wrong.

New Story Out in April

I have a new short story, Dreaming at Baikonur, included in an anthology called Rocket Science, which is due to be published by Mutation Press in April. The book is an anthology of 'realistic and authentic hard science fiction' - as Mutation's site phrases it - and is edited by the redoubtable Ian Sales, who is blogging the book's progress here.

The book will be launched at Olympus 2012, which is being held at Heathrow over the weekend of 6-9 April (guests of honour include George R.R. Martin). Ian will also be at alt.fiction in Leicester on the weekend following (14-15 April), where a 'second-stage launch' may indeed blast off.

I'm not sure at the moment whether I'll be at any of these illustrious smorgasbords myself. I think I may well be on Jura during 6-9 April, for a screening of a film I co-directed (see my filmmaking blog for any possible developments in that area). Alt.fiction remains a possibility. More news when I have some.

A Shewing Stone - Now on Kindle

My poetry pamphlet, A Shewing Stone, is now available as a Kindle eBook. Unlike the physical edition, this is not signed or numbered, and doesn't have any onion skin involved. However, it will be the only version available on Amazon for the forseeable future. (If you want a copy of the signed, limited paperbound edition, I suggest coming along to the Illicit Ink reading on 18th Jan!)

Poetry Reading 18.01.12.

I'll be appearing at Illicit Ink's Happy Verse Day on January 18th. It's a poetry reading, so expect some seasonal verse. More info here.