Mark Charan Newton

So, yesterday I took the train down to the Big Smoke to see my agent and visit the offices of Macmillan. It was one of those really, really cool moments. I met up with John for a coffee before hand, and had the usual chat about the world with him. Then, we meandered to the [...]

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Okay, it’s the weekend. I’ll be busy. And on Monday I go over to the offices at Macmillan/Tor to meet the legendary editor Peter Lavery and my agent, Sir John Jarrold. I’ll update about that on Tuesday, and report from the inner sanctum of a major London publisher. There’ll be all sorts of contract signing [...]

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I’ve had quite a few questions about this, so in case anyone’s wondering what the book is about, here’s a summary (and to be read in a deep Hollywood voice, please):
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An ice age comes to a chain of islands.
Villjamur: a city of ancient spires and bridges, where banshees declare the dead. You can see dodgy [...]

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Kind of irrelevant posting this piece on here, but I’ve moved home from the old blog and am now at this site permanently. Just so we grouped everything together nicely. It looks exactly the same, just the bit at the top is different.
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This is going out from my agent today:
John Jarrold has concluded a two-book World rights deal for new UK fantasy author Mark Charan Newton with Peter Lavery of Macmillan/Tor UK, for a good five-figure sum.The first book is titled NIGHTS OF VILLJAMUR, and will be published early in 2009. An impending Ice Age looms over [...]

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I’ve been working on proofs this week, hence the nothing that has gone on. But I had some good news about a short story I’ve sold for an anthology called Darkness on the Edge. It’s full of dark tales inspired by the lyrics of Bruce Springsteen, and as I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, I’m a bit [...]

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I’m part of Fantasy Book Critic’s round up from a writer’s perspective. Many fine folk there. I’m about half way down, waffling on more than most…
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What more could you want to get you in the mood this festive season that a short story based on honour killings set in the midlands. Online at Serendipity magic realism magazine.
Enjoy.
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I read this and felt it was a great shame indeed. M John Harrison has provided one of the best blogs on the Interwebs. It was like a writer’s notebook, and a great insight into the head of a very important man in the industry, although he’d maybe hate me for calling him ‘a man [...]

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The Reef is now available for pre-order… Rather chuffed at this. Page doesn’t yet have cover art, but will do very shortly. It does however have two very nice pieces of blurbage. Hurrah for that. I’m also hoping that a piece of short fiction may well be accepted too, so maybe this is the start [...]

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