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Panda Book of Horror Now Available


2009
10.28

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Ding Ding! All aboard! Room for a little ‘un at the back!

Iris, Panda and their transtemporal double decker Routemaster bus are just about ready to leave the terminus and set out on their most terrifying adventures yet!

Yes, The Panda Book of Horror will soon be on its way to the printers, with a publication date in November 2009!

Along for the ride this time are…

Paul Magrs
Mark Clapham
Mark Michalowski
Simon Guerrier
Ian Potter
Paul Dale Smith
Phil Craggs
Eddie Robson
Nicholas Nada
Blair Bidmead
Matt Kimpton
Mark Morris
Jac Rayner & Orna Petit

Many of these names will be known to Who book fans from the Virgin, BBC, Telos and Big Finish ranges, but new to Who-related fiction are Nix Nada and Blair Bidmead, both of whom submitted stories via the Obverse website, and Phil Craggs, editor of blankpages magazine. As for Orna Petit, who can say? All we know is Jac insisted and who are we to argue…

With cover art by Paul Magrs and a pretty damn nifty pastiche of the original Pan Books of Horror design by Cody Schell, we think you’ll enjoy The Panda Book of Horror…though perhaps enjoy is the wrong word…

Available for pre-order from Obverse Books now! Publication date: Late November 2009

And don’t forget – the Celestial Omnibus is still available!

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Panda’s Spotify Playlist


2009
05.16

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Iris Wildthyme’s acerbic bosom companion, the redoubtable Panda, has been kind enough, in between doing interviews for his new book, to allow me to record for posterity an evening’s musical entertainment chez him.

Which means that so long as you have Spotify, just click here for an hour or two’s musical highlights from a gentler, more innocent time…

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Why is a pre-order not just an order?


2009
04.23

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Well we’ve finally just about got there! Some nine months or so after Paul and I first discussed doing a new Iris Wildthyme short story collection, I spoke to the printer this afternoon and sent our lovingly created print ready pdf and Mark Michalowski’s brilliant setting of June Hudson’s fabulous cover art into their capable hands. All things being well, I should have the finished book in my hands, ready to post out at some point during May!

Which is where you all come in!

If no-one buys the book, this will all have been a bit of a waste of time, so please do nip along to www.obversebooks.co.uk and pre-order a copy for the bargain price of £10.99 plus postage for 234 fantastic, fun-filled pages!

Just click on the Panda to order…he says he doesn’t mind, he likes to do his bit!

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Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus – Update


2009
02.14

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Nearly there now! Just waiting for one author to finish up and then we can see how it all fits together.

Further announcements on obversebooks.co.uk soon…

(hmm, does that sound too much like one of those spam comments which litter blogger?)

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Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus


2008
11.27

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You know how it is. Your favourite book series goes belly up or starts printing books that just aren’t as good as they used to be. You’re stuck re-reading The Also People and The Blue Angel and – good as those two books are – moaning to people that everything’s a bit rubbish now.

So it was that, with the various Who books lines either disappearing or printing books aimed at a younger audience, we – that’s Paul Magrs and I – decided that this would be a great time to launch a new more adult oriented Who-related fiction imprint, publishing officially licensed Iris Wildthyme books.

Everything’s a little bit hush-hush at the moment, but the first book is going to be a short story collection entitled

‘Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus’

and will be published late next Spring. We’re keeping authors names under our hats (there will be a story from Paul obviously) but expect lots of Who fiction luminaries to be announced over the coming few weeks

The aim is to use any profit from the short story collection to kick-off a series of twice yearly Iris novellas. The books will only be available in a limited, numbered and autographed run. Don’t worry though – they definitely won’t be wildly expensive. Books are for reading not hiding in display cabinets.

One thing we can announce is that June Hudson, utterly legendary Who costume designer and the brains behind the famous season 18 costumes amongst many other things, has kindly agreed to do the cover art, about which we’re both totally chuffed.

Further information will appear on obversebooks.co.uk, where you can currently sign up for our mailing list and so keep abreast of upcoming news…