One Brick at a Time

About a month ago I had the extreme good fortune to meet Dan Abnett. As my employer – Angry Robot Books – is publishing Dan’s first original novels (after 3 dozen or so widely-acclaimed tie-in books), I’d chatted with him briefly over email, but didn’t get the opportunity to talk to him in person until [...]

This is likely to be a rather long entry, so if you’re pressed for time, pop back later. I’ll still be here. In fact, let me know what time, and I’ll have a cup of tea waiting.
 This is what should have happened:
I had a great time, met some fantastic people, got a lot of work [...]

Earlier this week I posted that we had rejected a couple of excellent manuscripts for not being “genre enough”. This was a copy of a post I made over at the Angry Robot website.
Someone responded and asked – well, what is “genre enough, then”?
A good question, and one which you can see my answer to [...]

Well, I’ve been an angry robot for 3 weeks, now, and this is my first post (expect a lot more in future) about it. Things have been extraordinarily busy over the last few weeks.
It already feels like I’ve been here for months, but in a good way. Setting up a new publishing division was always [...]