Look over at the menu bar and you'll see a new page - Forthcoming...

Here we'll be announcing upcoming publications ahead of time, with new information added as we get it...

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Aspiring novelists may be interested to hear of a new book called HOW TO WRITE A BLOCKBUSTER. Part of the Teach Yourself series, the book is edited by Helen Corner and Lee Weatherly amd aims to take writers from gestation to publishing. Michael is one of the writers, agents and publishers contributing small pieces of advice along the way.

Priced at £9.99, ISBN 0-340-91691-5.

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There's an extensive new online interview with Michael here...

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2007 is going to be a full year for Michael, appearance-wise. In addition to appearing as GoH at the World Horror Convention in Toronto at the end of March, it has just been announced that Michael will be a GoH at FantasyCon in September.

The convention will be held in Nottingham again this year, between 21st-23rd September. Editor and anthologist Stephen Jones has been confirmed as another GoH, and writer/editor/publisher Peter Crowther will be Master of Ceremonies.

Further information can be obtained from the convention website.

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Readers of languages other than English - and completists - may wish to know about three new foreign-language editions of Michael's novels.


The Dutch translation of BLOOD OF ANGELS.

• ENGELEN BLOOD [Dutch] published by Luitingh 2006. Translated by Monique Eggermont. ISBN 90-245-5043-2.


The French paperback edition of BLOOD OF ANGELS.

• LE SANG DES ANGES [French pb] published by Parenthese (Michel Lafon), 2006. Translated by Jean-Pascal Bernard. ISBN 9 782749 904924.


The Hebrew translation of THE UPRIGHT MAN/THE LONELY DEAD.

• [UNREPRODUCIBLE TITLE] [Hebrew], published by Yanshuf 2006. ISBN unknown.





The full bibliography has been updated to reflect these and other minor changes.

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Michael will be appearing at an event in this year's Guildford Literary Festival. Entitled WHY CRIME?, the event will be chaired by novelist Natasha Cooper, and the panel will also include Frances Fyfield, Graham Hurley, Jim Kelly and Laura Wilson. Full details on the festival and event are here.

WHY CRIME?
Venue: Electric Theatre
Time: 8:30
Date 19th October

This is a ticketed event - please see their website for details.

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Michael has a reprinted story in SHROUDED BY DARKNESS, a charity anthology edited by Alison L. R. Davies. Published by Telos and including stories by Poppy Z. Brite, Peter Crowther, Neil Gaiman, Graham Masterton, Richard Christian Matheson and Mark Samuels - amongst many others - and with a frontispiece by Clive Barker and a foreward by Stephen Jones, the collection has been published to raise money for DedRA.

Please consider picking up a copy from here.

• SHROUDED BY DARKNESS, Telos. ISBN 1-84583-046-6

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In his guise as Michael Marshall, Michael will be attending BoucherCon in Madison, Wisconsin - 28th Sepember to 1st October.

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Michael has a story in a new volume celebrating the British Fantasy Society. The story isn't exactly new - it's THE MAN WHO DREW CATS, the first he ever wrote - but is appropriate because it was the tale with which he won his first British Fantasy Award (there's also an eight hundred word introduction to the story). Featuring other writers including Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, Peter Straub, Brian Aldiss, Robert Silverberg, Christopher Fowler, Kim Newman and many more, proceeds from the book are to be split between supporting the BFS and the Nqabakazulu Charity Project.

The book will be launched at FantasyCon this weekend, and can be ordered here.

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Development has started on a feature flm adaptaton of Michael's story HELL HATH ENLARGED HERSELF. Michael is attached as producer and co-screenwriter on the movie, which is a co-production between Cuba Productions and LIghtworks Films, financed by the UK Flim Council.

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The RESOURCES section of this website now includes a list of the awards Michael has won.

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A short interview with Michael has just gone online at www.pantechnicon.net

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Michael has provided an introduction to Gollancz' new edition of Philip K. Dick's seminal novel UBIK, released as part of the publishers' line of paperback reissues of sf classics...

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The Germans have now also re-issued SPARES under the Michael Marshall name, but to add to the confusion this time it's been given a new title, too...

• DER SECHSTE KLON, Rowohlt [published as Michael Marshall] 2005, ISBN 978-3-499-24249-6, translated by Ulrike Becker and Claus Varrelmann

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The Full Bibliography in the books section has been updated, primarily with the new Calmann-Lévy editions of the Michael Marshall Smith novels, and information on the Japanese ONLY FORWARD, which an eagle-eyed correspondent noticed was missing...

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The usual heads-up for French speakers and completists... Calmann-Lévy have reissued SPARES with a new cover and under the Michael Marshall brand...

• France: FRERES DE CHAIR, Calmann-Lévy [published as Michael Marshall] 2006, ISBN 2-7021-3695-8, translated by Hélene Collon.

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