![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
A Release Date for my Avengers Book! (And an auction for a good cause.)
Apr. 22nd, 2025 08:12 pm![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
paulcornell_feedI’ve got a book coming out from Bloomsbury that’s part of a new range of popular studies of Marvel Comics! The Mighty Avengers vs. the 1970s is fully illustrated with panels from the comics, and is my journey through how Marvel’s main super team navigated that difficult decade. (Release date, etc., TBA.) You can read the announcement here at AP News. This is very much a labour of love for me, a book I’ve wanted to find a way to write for the longest time.
And now there’s a release date and a pre-order link!
You can get the book directly from the publishers (and from all good booksellers) on 13th November.
Trans Rights Charity Auction
If you’d like to support the Good Law Project’s battle for trans peoples’ rights, and get some lovely SFF merch at the same time, Lauren Beukes and Jeannette Ng have put together this charity auction, with lots from many different creators. Do take a look and spread the word.
Monarch: The Lost Adventures
That’s the title of a new comics anthology of stories set in the universe of the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters TV series, the world of the modern Godzilla/Kong films. Drew Zucker and Brad Simpson are my partners in art and colour art for the strip ‘The U.S.S. Lawton and the Ion Dragon’, and followers of the show may now have worked out what this is going to be. You can read all about it, and sign up for a Kickstarter with some wonderful extras, here.
(Cat Staggs’ standard cover.)
(Variant depicting my story, by Piotr Kowalski and Zid.)
Jill Mansell at Fairford Festival
On Saturday, June 7th at 2pm, as part of Fairford Festival in Gloucestershire, I’ll be interviewing bestselling romance author Jill Mansell about her career. (I’ll also be running the Festival Quiz on the Sunday night and doing a couple more bits and pieces too.) You can find out more info and buy tickets here.
Ace Jacket
I’ve contributed a short story to this anthology in aid of autism charities, edited by Sophie Aldred and Shawn J. Levy. It’s out on June 17th. You can read all about it and pre-order a copy here.
‘The Longest War’
That’s the title of the issue of Commando I’ve written, which is tentatively due to be released in August. The artist is the great Steve Yeowell, and it’s amazing work. I’m delighted to have contributed to this very exacting classic format. More news nearer the time!
Gnomes of Lychford and The Lychford Collection
On 9th September, Tor.com Publishing is releasing the sixth book in my Lychford series of rural fantasy novellas, Gnomes of Lychford. It’s a re-editing of the serial I ran on this newsletter, and I’ve taken the opportunity to sort out a couple of little plot problems.
I think it’s my best Lychford book, and, weirdly, it’s a great jumping-on point, because everything about the series is explained at the start.
You can read all about it here.
“An unlikely group of supernatural creatures terrorizes the sleepy village of Lychford. Okay, they’re gnomes. That’s not a spoiler: you worked it out it from the title. When an ancient prophecy clashes with an unfortunate modern design aesthetic, the people of Lychford must band together to put out fires (both literal and metaphorical) to save their town before the king of the Gnomes (King Greg, and it’s dangerous to laugh at a gnome) calls in the terms of an old promise.
Trouble is: no one knows what the promise is, nor how to fulfil it.
It’s going to be a long night.”
On the same day, they’ll also be publishing The Lychford Collection, which contains my first three Lychford novellas
A Bookstore Edition and a Waterstones signing for Who Killed Nessie?!
On 18th September, Avery Hill will be releasing a bookstore edition of Who Killed Nessie?, the graphic novel by myself and the great Rachael Smith.
You can pre-order it already from Amazon UK and Amazon US. And you can order it from all good bookstores and comic shops.
“The Loch Ness Monster has been murdered… it’s Lyndsay’s first day on the job, but it’s up to her to solve the crime! It’s Lyndsay Grockle’s first day as the manager of the Lakeview Hotel. Her boss has handed her the keys and departed for vacation. And then the convention attendees start showing up, each more peculiar than the last. Lyndsay’s a confirmed skeptic—so she’s surprised to be woken up in the middle of the night by her convention attendees, telling her that there’s been a murder… of the Loch Ness Monster. The guests at the hotel are all cryptids from around the world, and now one of them is dead. Which means that one of them must be the murderer. And it’s up to Lyndsay to solve the case!”
Those of you who backed the graphic novel on Zoop, don’t worry, you’ll be getting a unique edition with a different cover. (And you’ll be getting it first.)
And on Saturday, 20th September, from 1pm-2pm, Rachael and I will be signing the book (copies of which will be on sale) at Waterstones London-Piccadilly!
You can read all about that free-to-attend event here. I hope to see you there!
(Cover by Rachael Smith.)
Thought Bubble
Our application has been accepted, so I’m pleased to say that Lizbeth Myles and I will once more be tabling at the wonderful Thought Bubble comic convention in Harrogate on November 15th and 16th.
Telefantasy Time Jump
The new podcast from me and Lizbeth Myles, Telefantasy Time Jump, is out now. In this series, every month we’ll be covering a show from the history of UK Science Fiction and Fantasy TV, as we make our way through that history, starting with 1953 and The Quatermass Experiment. We’ll also be talking about what else was released that year.
Episodes will be released on the 14th of every month, and you can find them wherever you get your podcasts. April’s episode covers 1956, and thus The Adventures of Sir Lancelot.
If you become a Patron at £3/$3 or above, you also get an extra monthly episode on the 28th of every month, covering what the rest of the world was doing in SFF TV in that same year. For 1956, we’ll be covering Playhouse 90.
You also get access to seven years of bonus episodes from the Hammer House of Podcast archive.
We hope you’ll join us on our new journey. You can find all the details, and listen to the episodes, here.
My Ko-fi and eBay Stores
I’ve re-stocked my Ko-fi store, where you can buy my books and comics, signed and personalised, for shipping worldwide.
Similarly, I’ve now re-stocked my ebay store, full of Bronze Age Marvel comics at bargain prices.
My Linktree
You can now find all my social media links, my website/blog and links to where you can buy my books, in one place here, thanks to Linktree!
Please Feel Free to Share:
