Mike Brooks

Last year Nine Worlds was held at the Radisson Blu next to Heathrow, which is a spectacular hotel with impressive marble stairways, water features and so on. Unfortunately the staff seemed at best nonplussed and at worst downright grumpy about… Read moreLONDON CALLING, pt.2 – Friday at Nine Worlds

So the majority of the end of last week and the weekend was spent in London. Pull up a dalek, dear reader, while I recount the events. Bear with the length, for the events were many and the specifics (particularly… Read moreLONDON CALLING pt.1 – Thursday (Fantasy In The Court)

It’s time to go to London for a long weekend of geekery! To begin with I will be at Fantasy In The Court at Goldsboro Books just off Leicester Square on Thursday 11th. It runs from 6-9pm and will be your… Read moreTO LONDON!

I was on Functional Nerds! Go listen to me being English and pausing a lot. On the show we talk about my band Interplanetary Trash Talk’s music video!

On Thursday we bid goodbye to the smaller of our two cats, Silly (short for Drusilla). She was diagnosed with a tumour on her lung on Monday having been coughing for a week or so, and by Thursday she had… Read moreSad news, and then a little good news

Well. It’s hard to know where to begin, really. I suppose I will start by profusely thanking all of the people in North America who’ve already bought Dark Run. It’s been selling really well (or so I’m told – it’s not… Read moreThat Was The Week, That Was

Well, that was a bit of a busy week. I was on holiday in Scotland, walking up mountains and around lochs and celebrating my nine-year wedding anniversary while I was there. It was a lovely week, and I’ll put some… Read moreDARK RUN hits North America (and your headphones)

It’s all been a bit hectic! DARK RUN is coming out in North America on the 24th May and there’s actually been a bit of a buzz around it! I mean, we’ve had: – Tor.com releasing the first chapter – Tor.com… Read moreDARK RUN is gathering speed

Last weekend I ventured off into the Derbyshire countryside once more, as the weather promised to be fine. In fact it promised to be sixteen degrees and overcast, and ended up LYING TO ME by being more like twenty degrees… Read moreGetting sunburn on Froggatt and Curbar Edges

Those lovely folks over at Tor have graciously agreed to host the opening chapter of DARK RUN, which is coming out LATER THIS MONTH in North America! So go take a look and please feel free to order it if you… Read moreDARK RUN excerpt up on Tor.com!