Hauling Like A Brooligan

Stephen Gallagher

Category: The Kingdom of Bones

  • The Kingdom of Bones

    Here’s an advance look at the paperback cover. Launch date is September 9th, 2008, and it’s available for preorder now, should you be so inclined. More info about it on the Random House website here. To tie in with publication I’ll be putting online a free novella, In Gethsemane, for a limited period. In Gethsemane…

  • The BFS Awards

    I’ve just learned that both The Kingdom of Bones and Plots and Misadventures feature in the recommendations list for the British Fantasy Awards, voted by the membership of The British Fantasy Society and announced each year at Fantasycon. It’s not an actual nomination or even a shortlisting, so let’s not get carried away. But it’s…

  • New Gig

    When people ask me whether I prefer working on novels or screenplays, I tend to give the same answer. Whichever I’m working on at any given time, I always yearn for the other. Novel writing is all brooding and solitude, which I kind of like. Screenwriting on a ‘go’ project is all deadlines and pressure…

  • Amazon Blog Interview

    Jeff VanderMeer interviewed me about The Kingdom of Bones for the Amazon weblog. The Amazon daily blog is here – the post’s dated December 6 and sits between a memoir about Elizabeth Hardwick and an item about watching TV shows on your tie. Alternatively, you can skip straight to it by clicking here. Amazon.com: Besides…

  • Happy Halloween

    And since I’m going to be tied up for the next day or so with my daughter’s 21st birthday, let me jump in early with no shame and a reminder that Halloween is also publication day for my second short story collection. Two books out in one year! Haven’t had that happen in a while.…

  • PS Publishing Titles at Half Price

    To mark the launch of its revamped website, multi award-winning indie publisher PS Publishing is offering a 50% discount on all online orders for pre-2007 titles. So that’ll include my short story collection Out of his Mind and the hardcover edition of White Bizango (the paperback sold out some time ago). Both are signed and…

  • The Page 69 Test

    Here’s an intriguing blog in which writers are invited to make some comment about their own work based on a reading of all, or part, of its sixty-ninth page. I don’t know about anyone else, but for years now my browsing method has involved opening any book that catches my attention and reading a paragraph…

  • Publication Day

    Well, today’s the day. I know that a few copies have already snuck out there, but as of now The Kingdom of Bones is official goods. I don’t think I’ve ever had a novel that’s attracted as much advance reaction as this one… and let me tell you, that’s never been for want of trying.…

  • The Joys of Research

    From the front page of a microfilmed 1903 newspaper in the Historic New Orleans Collection… not exactly the reason I was there, but too good to ignore.

  • More Bones from the Kingdom

    Tastes vary. I can remember going to see an afternoon show of Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks with a group of friends and realising that, out of all the fellow-cheapskates and pensioners who made up the rest of the meagre discount-ticket audience, we were the only ones laughing. Looking around and seeing all those stony faces…