BREAKING NEWS:
Come to the Workshop!
I have decided to teach some of what I have discovered in my wild writing career to date. So I have set up a two day workshop on the action-adventure novel August 7th and 8th Vancouver, Canada. Come one and all! Details:
http://www.cchumphreys.com/Site_4/Welcome.html
VLAD, in mass market paperback, has now sold over 20,000 copies in the UK. Heh, if you bought one of them and are reading it, contact me and let me know what you think. There’s a button at the bottom of the next page ‘About the Author’
VLAD THE PAPERBACK - launched in the UK, and in many Commonwealth countries on February 11th 2010. It is Deal of the Week at WH Smith Travel (love those airports!), has sold to Asda Supermarkets, and will feature in Waterstones’ 3for2 offers.
There are some lovely Amazon customer reviews HERE.
My first You Tube video! To see what my brilliant friends Dan McKinney and Kim Frank have concocted for me Click HERE
Read a recent interview at Orion’s Website HERE
‘Vlad, The Last Confession’ has finally sold in America! To Sourcebooks, out of Chicago. I had a great chat with the acquiring editor, Peter Lynch, and he won my heart by not talking about vampires, or even page turners but of the ‘lyrical’ quality of the writing. I am thrilled to have a US deal with such an exciting, smaller company. It will be one of their ‘Summit’ titles and be marketed fiercely, not just ‘printed and shipped’ which I fear has happened to me before. Hurrah!
So here are the countries that have acquired Vlad to date:
Spain, Germany, Brazil, Poland, Serbia, Czech Republic, Turkey... and now the US!
Other news: I have delivered ‘The Hunt of the Unicorn’ (working title) my latest Young Adult novel to my publishers, Knopf. Watch for it... probably Spring 2011.
New review for Vlad in Total Sci Fi. Click
A recent radio interview from Radio New Zealand. Go to INTERVIEWS above. (If you get to the end, they cut me off before I could explain about the cheese!)
I have added an album from my recent UK promotion tour of Vlad. Click ‘My Albums’ above to see it.
VLAD LAUNCHED IN THE UK MARCH 5TH. Pop down to your local bookstore! And to follow my adventures promoting it on my recent UK tour take a look at my blog.
More reviews:
‘Literate elegant writing... Vlad: The Last Confession superbly portrays the passions which drove Vlad, taking the reader on a whirlwind ride through torture, battle and despair. It's a dark tale, but Humphreys illuminates it with historical details and page-turning bravura prose.' Yorkshire Evening Post.
And see HERE for Fantasy Blog review.
“A fast paced, intriguing and beautifully constructed thriller.” Daily Express, UK.
“A creepy masterpiece” BEST magazine, UK.
“There's a maturity in his writing that places it above much of the cash-in fare surrounding the middle European leader...VERDICT: 8/10
An unexpectedly riveting read.” Total Sci-Fi.
OTHER REVIEWS: The Globe and Mail, Canada’s main newspaper, has reviewed ‘Vlad’. Click HERE to read an extract of it, and other reviews.
And to hear the introduction to the book - ‘To the Reader’, read in my own dulcet tones, click HERE. Or to read an Extract, click Vlad Web extracts.zip.
INTERVIEW:This interview appeared - so if you want to see me and hear me talk click HERE (Warning: I was ever so slightly hungover!)
ABSOLUTE HONOR is out in the USA!
Check out the latest Jack adventure at your nearest bookstore. And click above on the cover to read more.
HE’S HERE...
‘VLAD, THE LAST CONFESSION’ HAS HIT THE SHELVES -
Exclusively in Canada, from McArthur & Co.
Here’s the press release;
‘Trust nothing that you have heard...’
Winter 1431. A son is born to the prince of Transylvania.
His father called him Vlad.
His people called him 'The Dragon's Son'.
His enemies reviled him as 'Tepes' - The Impaler.
He became the hero of a nation.
We know him as Dracula.
Vlad: The Last Confession tells of the man behind the Bram Stoker myth. Of the Prince, the warrior, the lover, the torturer, the survivor... the hero. It is a novel based on an extraordinary tale... as it has never been told before.
Go to ‘VLAD -THE LAST CONFESSION’. to check out the new synopsis!
MORE NEWS!
Vancouver Artist ROBERT EDMONDS has come up with some fantastic art works based on the novel. Visit Chris’ BLOG to see this extraordinary collaboration between words and images
POSSESSION HAS ARRIVED! The final part of the Runestone Saga is here! The official release date in North America was August 12th... To celebrate I have created a photo album: SKY’S SHROPSHIRE. Click HERE to view it or go to MY ALBUMS above. And you can read an extract HERE or listen to an exclusive podcast reading from the book HERE!
BLOG! BLOG! BLOG!
I have finally mastered some technology beyond the broadsword and have begun a new blog. Please come and visit me... HERE!
RECENT INTERVIEW! Check out photo and chat on the INTERVIEWS PAGE.
and...
‘VENDETTA’ - Book Two of the Runestone Saga - is now available in paperback in the US and Canada.
