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Philip Palmer, Renaissance Man? No way!
Posted on March 26, 2012 | 3 CommentsFor the last few weeks I’ve been doing an interview for the Irish blogger and writer Bob Neilson, who does a lot of stuff for the Irish online mag Albedo... -
The Lost Flanagan Story
Posted on November 13, 2011 | No CommentsI recently did an interview for the charming blogger Alan Kelly, who runs a really cool site called Horror Reanimated. One of the things Alan asked me about were the... -
Hell Ship Reviews
Posted on September 14, 2011 | 6 CommentsIt’s been a crazy busy time…I’ve spent all today planning a war in the Middle East, trying to decide whether I should invade Syria in my first wave of attacks... -
Hell Ship Speaks
Posted on August 15, 2011 | No CommentsA huge envelope arrived through my door this week, and inside were Sharrock, Jak and Sai-ias – the three protagonists of my novel Hell Ship. This was the audio... -
SFF Song of the Week: Eric Brown
Posted on August 8, 2011 | No CommentsI met Eric Brown at my first Eastercon; he’s a charming guy, and is universally admired as one of the finest and most imaginative writers in SF, equally adept in... -
A-Z of the Palmerverses
Posted on August 7, 2011 | No CommentsI’ve just been proof-reading ARTEMIS, which is my fifth novel for Orbit Books, and is published later this year. And I had a bit of a ‘wow’ moment. Wow! Four... -
Book Signing Weekend
Posted on August 1, 2011 | No CommentsYesterday I spent the afternoon signing books at Forbidden Planet…as jobs go, this was a bit like being forced to eat chocolate in a chocolate factory. This is the Shaftesbury Avenue... -
Sai-ias Speaks
Posted on July 18, 2011 | No CommentsThis is the longest of the excerpts provided by Recorded Books from their audio book version of Hell Ship. It’s narrated by Sai-ias, who is the heroine of the story ... -
Jak Speaks
Posted on July 8, 2011 | No CommentsYesterday I played a brief excerpt from the audio book of Hell Ship, featuring Sharrock, one of the book’s three narrators. Today, meet Jak. Jak is an alien from a... -
Sharrock Speaks
Posted on July 7, 2011 | No CommentsToday is the UK publication date of HELL SHIP. And I thought I’d celebrate by introducing you to Sharrock, one of the three main characters in the story. Sharrock has... -
Moodboard for Hell Ship
Posted on July 1, 2011 | 6 CommentsHELL SHIP: PUBLISHED TODAY IN THE US OF A! Regular readers of this blog will know that occasionally I produce ‘moodboards’ of my various novels. Here’s Debatable Space. Here’s Red... -
Does it matter if all the bookshops close?
Posted on June 20, 2011 | 2 CommentsLast week Stephen Hunt sent me the link for this fascinating article about one writer’s experience of shopping at the new digital-age Barnes & Noble – i.e. CRAP. In their... -
How DO you say that?
Posted on June 8, 2011 | No CommentsA big box arrived in the post this week with first copies of Hell Ship. It’s a wonderfully cool cover – lurid purple – with the words ALIEN, INVADERS AND... -
Sharrock in Love
Posted on January 24, 2011 | 1 CommentI’m currently revising the proofs of my new novel Hell Ship, featuring among others the character of Sharrock, who also appears in a story in Further Conflicts (see below.) I... -
Further Conflicts
Posted on January 22, 2011 | No CommentsI’m delighted to say I’ve just had a short story accepted for the above volume, published by Newcon Press and edited by Ian Whates (author and founder of the Newcon... -
Sharrock and the Ghost of Pethgore
Posted on January 17, 2011 | 1 CommentThis is the first in which I hope will be a series of short stories and flash fiction pieces featuring characters and ideas to be found in Hell Ship. These... -
Philip Palmer’s Debatable Spaces
Posted on December 7, 2010 | 3 CommentsMy Debatable Space Facebook page has just had a fantastic new revamp, thanks to that ace webguy Darren Turpin. This page was originally set up when my first novel, er,... -
A Book-Lover’s Easy Virtue
Posted on November 24, 2010 | No CommentsI’ve been mulling about genre, here. -
Hell Ship cover launched, with a splash
Posted on November 15, 2010 | 1 CommentHey! Here’s the cover of Hell Ship. Which comes out next year. And here’s Lauren Panepinto’s hilarious account of how she created it. I MEAN, this lady is crazy –...