2009

New Chapbook from Nightjar

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For those who haven’t already heard about it, we’d like to point you to Nightjar Press — a new imprint set up by Nicholas Royle. Royle is a distinguished novelist and short story writer, a well-known genre and literary anthologist, and a long-time supporter of new talent.

His new imprint has kicked off with two short chapbooks, one of which is a new story by Michael -
What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night, beautifully designed and priced at £3.

For further information on Nightjar and its publications, go
here. To contact the publisher direct to order, email nicholasroyle@btinternet.com.

Bibliography updated

The main bibliography has been updated, with new foreign translations of the novels...

New Interview Online

There’s a new interview with Michael online at the very excellent Alternative Magazine...

BAD THINGS Giveaway...

To mark the paperback publication of BAD THINGS in the UK on April 15th, Michael will be giving away three copies of the novel, signed to whomsoever you choose.

Further details
here...

Michael blogs...

It can be found here... or by following the link on the sidebar on the left.

Michael wins French literary prize...

We’re delighted to say we’ve just heard that Michael has won the ‘short story’ category of Le Prix Bob Morane.

Winner’s list in full:

Roman francophone
Christophe Lambert : Le Commando des Immortels (Fleuve Noir)
Roman traduit
Dan Simmons : Terreur (Robert Laffont)
Nouvelles
Michael Marshall : L’Homme qui dessinait des chats (Bragelonne)
BD francophone
Pecau/Damien : Une brève histoire de l’avenir (Delcourt)
BD traduite
Neil Gaiman : Les Bienveillantes (Panini Comics)
Coup de cœur
Lucie Chenu pour son activité d’anthologiste

New Live for Film Interview

A new interview with Phil Edwards for Live for Film has gone up today...

New website section - Authorial Intrusion

We’re pleased to announce the launch of a new section on the website - ‘Authorial Intrusion’. In response to user requests, this section will feature more personal information about Michael. To start with we have...

1. Some
photos we’ve managed to find. If you have more, please send them...
2. A Twitter feed
3. Michael will be posting up book recommendations, based on what he’s reading now.

We’ll be adding more features soon...

As always, if you have suggestions or requests, please let us know (and yes, we
know a blog would be nice... we’re working on him over this).

Twitter

This was announced in the forum a few days ago: if you have any interest in following Michael’s (very occasional) tweets, he is: @ememess

Short story on web

An uncollected short story - FAIR EXCHANGE has just appeared on new internet fiction site Joyland - in the London section.

Site News...

The site has been updated in various ways...

1. Michael’s
biographical details have been updated to reflect new publications...

2. An entry for
BAD THINGS has been added to the Michael Marshall books page...

3. The
full bibliography has been updated to reflect these and other additions, including the upcoming UK paperback of THE SERVANTS...

4. Small updates have been made to the
What’s Happening section...

5. Other small corrections throughout.

Video Interviews

Links to two short video interviews Michael has done for BAD THINGS and THE SERVANTS are below...

BAD THINGS
THE SERVANTS

Um, it’s been pointed out to us these links are the wrong way around... so...

Everyone must read... ONLY FORWARD

We’re delighted to say that ONLY FORWARD has been listed today as one of The Guardian’s “1000 Books Everyone Must Read” - in the 100 best sf and fantasy novels.

BAD THINGS news...

Michael’s new novel - BAD THINGS - is now out in the UK. It’s already getting rave reviews..

“Michael Marshall is already a star - he’s the author of The Straw Men, one of the scariest thrillers of the last decade, and this, his latest, bears all his trademarks. Fast-moving, sinister and highly accomplished [...] This is ferocious story-telling of the highest order, with corkscrew twists and turns that make it deliciously scary as the secrets unfold.”
THE DAILY MAIL

The amazon.co.uk page for the book now features a mini video
interview with Michael, in which he talks about the book and other aspects of his writing...