To quote Professor Farnsworth: “Good news everyone…”

…This week I’m 33 years old, and to mark such an auspicious occasion I have a little publishing update which should answer a few questions that have assailed me over the last couple of months.

Macmillan New Writing have given me a provisional publishing date of April 2009 for the hardback version of The Horde of Mhorrer. It will be followed soon after by the mass-market paperback version of The Secret War (under the Tor imprint) with a redesigned cover for a consistent series look.

Yes, it’s quite a long way off (almost a year and a half) but it gives me plenty of time to complete The Black Hours with little distraction and time to plan The Fortress of Black Glass.

More news on covers etc will be revealed in the near future, but if you can’t wait for the paperback of The Secret War, you can still pick up a copy here, or a signed copy here.