Author Archive: Kerry Butters


Christopher Fowler’s ‘Hell Train’ hits bookstores in New Year

Christopher Fowler’s ‘Hell Train’ hits bookstores in New Year

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Christopher Fowler is to launch his first book for Solaris in the New Year, which is being billed as “the ultimate Hammer Horror they never made.” Hell Train reaches the UK on the 5th of January and is set to [...]

November 26, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Exciting new voice in urban fiction from Solaris

Exciting new voice in urban fiction from Solaris

A new author who provides a “distinctive new voice” in urban fantasy is due to release her debut novel, Blood and Feathers, in August next year. Lou Morgan, who was first published by the British Fantasy Society in 2008 with a short story, has pitched the novel as “Alice in Wonderland goes to hell”. The [...]

November 11, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Rebellion open new digital book store

Rebellion open new digital book store

Rebellion Publishing have announced the opening of a new digital store in which users can download the best in genre writing with a click of a button. Solaris and Abaddon books, an imprint offering a wide range of sci-fi, horror and fantasy will be available in their entirety for the first time in both ePub [...]

November 11, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Exciting debut from Gaie Sebold out in December

Exciting debut from Gaie Sebold out in December

Solaris books are set to release a fresh and fun title from debut author Gaie Sebold just in time for the New Year. Babylon Steel will be available from the 27th December in the UK and 5th January in the US. “Ex-sword-for-hire Babylon Steel runs the best brothel in the city. She’s got elves using [...]

November 4, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Solaris announce new novel from Gareth L. Powell

Solaris announce new novel from Gareth L. Powell

Solaris has announced a new book that it has commissioned from Gareth l.Powell, author of The Recollection and Silversands and one of the most exciting new voices in science fiction. Ack-Ack Macaque is due for publication in January 2013 and is based on the short story of the same name which won Interzone magazine’s 2007 [...]

November 4, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Book 3 in Charlie Madigan series out in December

Book 3 in Charlie Madigan series out in December

The Hour of Dust and Ashes is book three in the well-loved Charlie Madigan series by Kelly Gay and is out in paperback on the 8th December. Charlie Madigan knows that the off-world drug ‘ash’ makes humans the perfect vessels for possession. Which means that she will do anything to save her sister Bryn, who [...]

October 11, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Hells Bells by John Connolly out next week

Hells Bells by John Connolly out next week

A new novel from bestselling author John Connolly is out next week, entitled Hells Bells in the UK and Infernal in the US. Hells Bells is the story of Samuel Johnson, who finds himself in trouble when, not content with being in love with the wrong girl, he is also the subject of the wrath [...]

October 11, 2011 | 0 Comments More
New Vernor Vinge novel out in November

New Vernor Vinge novel out in November

Due for release in November is a new novel from Hugo award winning author, Vernor Vinge, published by Tor. Nearly ten years ago, Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children survived a disaster that almost obliterated the human race and ended up on Tines World. The pack animals that are the Tines and Ravna [...]

October 7, 2011 | 0 Comments More
The Cross (Vampire Federation 2) out October 13th

The Cross (Vampire Federation 2) out October 13th

Coming soon from Avon is the second instalment in the Vampire Federation series, The Cross, by Scott Mariani. “There are worse things than vampires…” The ancient Cross of Ardaich was thought to have been destroyed in the bloody war between the Vampire Federation and the Trads, and is deeply feared by vampires. Even worse, its [...]

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New Tomes of the Dead novel out November 10th

New Tomes of the Dead novel out November 10th

“What does a vampire eat during the zombie apocalypse?” A new book in the Tomes of the Dead series from Abaddon Books, Double Dead by Chuck Wendig, is the tale of Coburn, who finds himself with a problem when he wakes from a five year slumber. The issue is that human civilisation has fallen in [...]

October 6, 2011 | 2 Comments More
Kultus – Sizzling debut novel from Richard Ford and Solaris

Kultus – Sizzling debut novel from Richard Ford and Solaris

November 1st brings a sizzling mix of the occult and steampunk from debut novelist Richard Ford. Kultus is “a steam-powered burlesque of brutal demonic action from the latest break-out talent from Solaris”. The novel follows the adventures of Thaddeus Blaklok, a mercenary who is seeking a mysterious key for unknown benefactors. However, he is not [...]

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Abaddon Books announce new concept in genre publishing

Abaddon Books announce new concept in genre publishing

Abaddon Books have announced a new venture in genre publishing where the readers are in charge of the story. Time’s Arrow will be the latest instalment in the Steampunk novel series, Pax Britannia, the longest continuously running series in the world. Pax Britannia is set in a world where the Victorian age never ended and [...]

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Millennium Falcon Hayne’s Manual out in November

Millennium Falcon Hayne’s Manual out in November

A must for all Star Wars fanatics is the new Haynes manual, out in November for the iconic spaceship the Millennium Falcon. The spaceship, piloted by Han Solo and Chewbacca in the original sci-fi epic trilogy is detailed in full-colour cutaways, together with other art and photographs. The manual provides the most detailed technical information [...]

September 16, 2011 | 2 Comments More
Raymond E. Feist’s ‘A Kingdom Besieged’ out today

Raymond E. Feist’s ‘A Kingdom Besieged’ out today

An exciting new trilogy is soon to be unveiled from bestselling fantasy author Raymond E Feist. A Kingdom Besieged (Midkemian Trilogy 1) is due for release by Harper Voyager today, an exciting event in epic fantasy that many fans will be rushing out to buy. Discover the fate of the original black Magician, Pug, and [...]

September 1, 2011 | 1 Comment More
Hexed hot on the heels of Hounded

Hexed hot on the heels of Hounded

Hot on the heels of the first in the Iron Druid Chronicles, Hounded, by Kevin Hearne, comes Hexed, the next chapter in the story of Atticus O’Sullivan, the last of the Druids. Orbit have announced that it will be released in the UK in October. Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, doesn’t care much for [...]

September 1, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Brandon Sanderson’s Warbreaker out in time for New Year

Brandon Sanderson’s Warbreaker out in time for New Year

Out just in time for the New Year is a new title by the author of the popular Mistborn series, Brandon Sanderson. Warbreaker is to be released by Gollancz Books on 29th December 2011. Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, [...]

September 1, 2011 | 1 Comment More
Mulholland Books announce release of Black Light

Mulholland Books announce release of Black Light

Mulholland Books presents a new book from experienced writers Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunston and Stephen Romano entitled Black Light: Don’t Look too Deep. The novel is due to be released in October. Now, the Black Light. I see everything. Everything the dead people see. This is where they live. If you have a supernatural problem [...]

August 26, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens, new mashup out next month

Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens, new mashup out next month

The latest in classic and horror mashup novels is to be released at the beginning of next month by Proxima. Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens by Jonathan Pinnock is a ‘sequel’ to Pride and Prejudice set a year or so into the marriage of Elizabeth and Mr Darcy. Elizabeth Darcy has much on her mind: [...]

August 26, 2011 | 0 Comments More
First in new trilogy, Darkness Falling released October

First in new trilogy, Darkness Falling released October

The first in a new sci-fi series by Peter Crowther, The Forever Twilight trilogy, is to be launched at the beginning of October by Angry Robot Books. Darkness Falling is the story of a typical, all-American backwater, until the night the monsters arrive… When four employees of KMRT Radio investigate an unearthly light that cuts [...]

August 26, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Little Star by John Ajvide Lindqvist released next month

Little Star by John Ajvide Lindqvist released next month

A new title from Swedish horror writer John Ajvide Lindqvist is to be released next month. Following on from the excellent Handling the Undead and Let the Right One In, is Lindqvist’s latest offering, Little Star. One autumn day in 1992, former pop singer Lennart Cederstrom finds something unexpected in the forest: a baby girl [...]

August 26, 2011 | 0 Comments More