Author Archives: Peter Darbyshire
Reading at ChiSeries Vancouver
I’ll be reading at ChiSeries Vancouver Oct. 9, along with Melia McLure and Silvia Morena-Garcia. They’re both awesome writers and cool people, so I’m excited about this. I think I might take a break from reading The Mona Lisa Sacrifice and read my story from Imaginarium 2013 instead.
There’s a Facebook event if you’re on FB.
Hope to see you there!
A nice little review
Speculating Canada has some nice words about my story “The Last Love of the Infinity Age,” recently reprinted in ChiZine’s Imaginarium 2013 anthology.
The Word on the Street is… Vancouver!
I’m reading at Word Vancouver (formerly Word on the Street) again this year, and I’m flattered to be featured on the Word Vancouver website! I’ll be reading at the festival Sunday, Sept. 29, at 1-1:15 p.m., at the Canada Writes tent. I guess I’d better read something from The Mona Lisa Sacrifice!
I’ll be reading right after YA star Elsie Chapman and right before bestselling mystery writer Cathy Ace, and it’ll be hosted by Jenn Farrell, so it promises to be a fun time. See you there!
An interview with The Danforth Review
The Danforth Review has always been one of my favourite places to hang out online, so I was delighted when host Michael Bryson asked to interview me about my new novel, The Mona Lisa Sacrifice. Click the link to discover how MLS is like Don Quixote, why I’d cast Seth Rogen in the movie and what I did with the Rob Ford video.
Live from the Storm Crow Tavern
Here are a few shots of me reading during the Vancouver launch of The Mona Lisa Sacrifice at the Storm Crow Tavern. Thanks to everyone who came out!
That’s right: the sign leading into the back room says You Shall Not Pass.
Check out the Wall of Boardgames behind me. Who cares about the reading — let’s play some games!
I like this one because it’s an action shot. It looks like the octopus on the chandelier is about to attack me.
A longer shot of the Storm Crow. Doesn’t this look like the place to let your inner geek loose?
(Photos courtesy of John Fuller)
Win a free copy of The Mona Lisa Sacrifice
Win a signed copy of The Mona Lisa Sacrifice! I’ve teamed up with Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine to give away a free copy of my new novel, The Mona Lisa Sacrifice. All you have to do is go over to BCS and post a comment. While you’re there, why don’t you read some of the fine, fine stories published by BCS, my favourite genre magazine. You won’t be sorry.
Those of you who have been following along will know that BCS published two of my weird western stories featuring the angel gunslinger Azrael: The Angel Azrael Rode into the Town of Burnt Church on a Dead Horse and The Angel Azrael Delivers Small Mercies. (And you can now buy Small Mercies on Kobo.)
Now go read some free stories and win a free book!
The Vancouver launch is at the best nerd pub in the city!
The time is nigh! The time for the Vancouver launch of The Mona Lisa Sacrifice, that is. I’ll be reading from my new book at the Storm Crow Tavern, Vancouver’s prime haven for geeky nerds and nerdy geeks, on Thursday, Aug. 22. The reading is scheduled for sometime between 7 and 9. I won’t commit to anything more specific than that because, well, have you seen the drinks list at the Storm Crow?
There will be food and drink — and games, because that’s the kind of night it’s going to be. There will also be books for sale, if that’s the sort of thing that interests you.
The pic above is a scene from a typical night at the Storm Crow. You know you want to be there.
You can RSVP at the Facebook event if you like.
Vote now, vote often….
Hey, I just realized my story “The Angel Azrael Delivers Small Miracles” is one of the entrants in Beneath Ceaseless Skies’ Reader Poll for the new Best of BCS anthology. If my story gets enough votes, it’ll make the anthology. So head on over and vote if you liked my story the first time around! Or just read through the list, because they’re all fine stories.
(The other choices I would recommend are Last Gorgon by Rajan Khanna, Proof of Bravery by David Milstein, Heart of the Rail by Mark Teppo and God Thieves by Derek Kunsken. But your preferences may vary.)
Unhinged
There’s a lovely review of my new book, The Mona Lisa Sacrifice, in the National Post. It talks about the pen name issue — probably the only time I’ll appear in a piece that also discusses JK Rowling — and gives me some great quote material:
The Mona Lisa Sacrifice is a deliriously unhinged roller coaster of a novel, blending fantasy, history, horror and humour with the aplomb of an overfull blender, but all of it smarter than it, truly, has any right — or need — to be.
I blush.
Win a copy of Imaginarium 2013
The good people over at Tor are giving away five copies of Imaginarium 2013, which features stories by a whole bunch of writers I like. It’s also got a story by me, but I don’t always like myself….
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