Ben Aaronovitch
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Have signed a deal with Stolen Pictures to develop a Rivers of London TV series
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Okay this is just what I needed on a Monday Morning - I give you the new sign at a famous Leicester car park.
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Hurrah! Have submitted draft one of the next Peter Grant novel. With luck a release in the first half of 2022.
--> Next up - the Reynold's Novella.
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This is literally the first time I’ve seen this book in its final form.
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The next Rivers of London Book will be released in the UK and CW terrirtoies in HB, eBook and Audio on 7th April 2022.
North America and Germany etc - TBA
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Have submitted draft 1 of the next Peter Grant novel - now awaiting editor'snotes with bated breath.
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The next Peter Grant book is called....dan dan DAH! - False Value.
Here is a link provided by Orion/Gollancz + cool video reveal.
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Why do these working class rebellions always end up electing posh privately educated rich people?
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Done done done done done.
Lies Sleeping is done dusted and submitted - oh ye of little faith.
UK release date 6th November!
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You know if Trump did refuse to leave the WH they could livestream his eviction as a pay for view event and essentially pay off the national debt.
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I will stop writing the Peter Grant books under the following circumstances...
1) People stop buying them.
2) They stop being interesting.
3) I can afford a yacht
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Have just been contacted by my GP and given a vaccination appointment.
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Have written 600 words today- unfortunately they were all Ben Aaronovitch
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Did some location scouting today - found the crime scene for the first body in the next Peter Grant novel.
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Yesterday's word count = 422
Today I officially start the next Peter Grant novel. Finishing on time will require an average of 500 words a day. We shall see whether that is possible. :)
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I'm Number 4 in the Sunday Times Bestsellar kist - which is not bad for a novella - so I'd like to thank all the readers who made this possible.
Ta very much.
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Today is Publication Day for...
WHAT ABIGAIL DID THAT SUMMER
It doesn't matter how many books you get puiblished that wonderful feeling of seeing your name on shelf never goes away...
Even if itis a virtual shelf.
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Boris Johnson has been forced into a policy u-turn because the rest of the country ignored him and started implementing gathering bans without him.
Sniff - makes me proud to be British.
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TITLE REVEAL - Next years novella is entitled WINTER'S GIFTS! Out in June 2023 in HB,eB and Aud.
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Farage backed Trumps claims of fraud but when challanged to produce evidence he said that the evidence was “so new it has not yet come to light”.
This my new favourite euphamism.
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I'd like to thank everyone who bought my book and/or came to the events and generally made me feel very welcome from Glasgow to Swansea and put AMONGST OUR WEAPONS at the top of the hardback charts.
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Look what I just got sent and with my name on it and everything.
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Announcing
WHAT ABIGAIL DID THAT SUMMER
out in March.
Amazon links
Hardback:
eBook:
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I've been visiting the Folly with interested parties 😀
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I have been fighting this chapter for more than three months and suddenly I have the solution. And it has to be one of the bloody foxes. I ask you.
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Just had second Pfizer - soon I will be invincible!
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Ah London - never failing to provide new places for people to be murdered and/or Peter to damage.
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Juist been told about this...
Garfield Rd park outside Twickenham Library.
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Just heard that False Value is number 1 in the next Sunday Times chart - thanks to everyone who bought the bok. :)
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Happy New Year - here is the last line I wrote in 2020...
Sally scampered past me and into the house. I followed her in, closed the door and hunted out my scene of crime kit and a paper evidence bag. While I did that I speed dialled Nightingale.
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Just did a drive by signing at Foyles Charing Cross road.
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OFFICIAL COVER REVEAL for WHAT ABIGAIL DID THAT SUMMER - published March 2021.
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While procrastination the work I'm supposed to be doing I found myself sketching out the early stages of Rivers of London 11 (that's the one after the one after the novella).
And who should make an unexpected appearance but Lesley. Bloody characters - they're so persistant. 😛
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I've just discovered a Verbeia, the genius loci of the lower Wharfe. Throw in a wilder brother from upstream and an even wilder sibling from the Strid and I think I have the start of my first Yorkshire short story. :) It was only a matter of time.
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PSA
As of the last day of the year my son, my brother and my ex all have COVID although thankfully only one has had to be hospitalised.
Don't die of irony - it's not clever when it happens in real life.
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And the title of the next Rivers of London novel is… AMONGST OUR WEAPONS
I bet you weren’t expecting that!
Up for pre-order now, including signed copies from Waterstones:
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Given the example set by our leadership Ihave decided to make my next villian stupid, disorganised but lucky and bouyed up by privilidge.
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Today is the official start of writing the next novel which means two things...
1) weekly word counts.
2) lots of Scottish questions on twitter.
3) writing...obviously
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Pleased to annonce that What Abigail Did That Summer is momentarily number 1 in the Amazon *Cat, Dog & Animal Humour* catagory.
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I'm writing the scene where the foxes encounter their first cheesepuff.
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The Lies Sleeping ms has been sent in the general direction of the copy editor.
Just so we can be clear here.
The book is finished, production is on schedule, UK and US release will be mid Nov.
Any variation from now on is down to distribution.
:p
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I need to listen to something funny that isn't topical or satirical or references anything going on in the real world right now.
...It is time for some emergency Pratchett!
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Feeling much better - thanks to everyone who asked.
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Apparently I a sposed t use this one - don't ask me why.
There will be a Print on Demand version - eventually.
There will be an audio - eventully.
I dont have a date for either.,
It will be released in most eBook formats.
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A merry co-opted pagan festival to one and all and may the local spirits keep the waters from your door and the bailiffs from your belongings.
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After the event last night we found we were under surveillance by a UFO (Unidentified Foxy Operative)
The truth is out there….
And demanding cheese puffs.
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So False Value.
Now definately, honestly, cross my heart - out on the 20th of February.
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It's almost here....
The Rivers of London RPG
Available soon in PDF
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On reflection I’ve decided that being toppled, torn down and defaced by future generations is partly what statues are for.
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Ben's workbench status...
Reynolds Novella
Copyedited, undergoing German translation, cover design. Estimated pub date summer 2023
Nightingale Novella
Completed. Awaiting processing for possible 2024 release.
Next Peter Grant novel...
Started today...
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As a bonus to the cover reveal here is a deliberately low rez version of the map which will be included in the novella.
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Manchester is sidling slyly into the next Peter Grant book. Curse you Manchester and your complex and fascinating history!
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This Friday I will be revealing the title of the NEW Rivers of London novel – out next April. Here’s a little clue to see if you can guess the title in advance – let us know what you come up with.
Click here for preorders
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I'm thiiiiiiis close to the end - no new characters - I forbid it - get back in the box. And you can shut up too foxface -you had your chance for some exposition in the first half and missed it. Now youre just going to have to wait for the next book.
#iamwriting
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One novella down now we start prepping for the next novel.
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Well there's a relief now we just have to deal with our own home grown mini-me republicans.
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Bow down before the gloid and black gloriousness that is the cover for THE MASQUERADES OF SPRING 😀
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I’ve never been close to a working steam locomotive before and didn’t realise the sheer level of heat that radiates from its boiler. This is why, when possible, do research in person.
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And I don't normally do that shit either but fuck me if I'm going to let the gentry and their foreign oligarchs drive my country off a cliff without a fight,
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There's a little snippet of a taster at my website.
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Right that's the copy edit of the Reynolds Novella done. Back to Scotland for Doric foxes, Pictish mermaids and demonic seagulls.
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Once more with feeling.
Novella's (40,000 words)
Will feature have non Peter POVs and come out in June.
Novels (96,000 words)
Will come out each year in November and have Peter as POV character.
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Have sold more books to Orion! Hooray!
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we're coming out of lockdown waaaaay to soon. We're going to pay for this in a couple of weeks.
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I've been nominated for a HUGO
But I'm not going to gloat much
Well..
Possibly a little bit.
I've been nominated for a HUGO nah nah nah nah!
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People, but especially bullies, always look invincible right up to the point where they're not.
Anyone who's ever worked retail, or the creative industries has met a 100 Cummings. They are the hooting, useless, pointless gibbons that exist only to make life miserable for others.
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Have been to Forbidden Planet today and signed some stock….
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The mini-budget makes more sense if you assume that Truss & co. know they're going to lose the next election giving them just 18 months to divert as much money as possible into the hands of their friends and relations while trashing the economy ahead of an opposition govt.
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Nightingale Novella Draft One complete.
Pending --> Any additional rewrites for the Reynold's Novella.
Now Writing --> Two 1920s spin off short stories.
On the bench.
PREP for ROL novel number 10
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At last a degree! Now he’s bound to get a job and move out - right?
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Assuming that Farage is right and that 20million people are marching in spirit with the 60 odd participants on his march on London than, by my calculation, 333,333,333,333 marched in spirit for the people's vote march.
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God I hate it when characters don’t bother to share information with each other.
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This is one of only 10 advanced reader copies and it’s mine all mine!
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For most of my early life, starting when I was in a pushchair, political marches were compulsory and so I've avoided them ever since the same way I have avoided broccoli and filial guilt.
But I'm marching on Saturday because I think it my be our last chance.
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I’d just like to thank the German language for the beautiful utility and ubiquitousness of the word Zeug.
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Boris Johnson wants to make it clear that the UK's argument is with the Russian regime not the Russian regime's money.
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I find writing sort of joyful slog but sometimes when doing the final edits there is nothing left to do but grit your teeth and beat the fucker to death with a mallet.
#writing
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I just couldn't resist - the image is from the DAILY MAIL - it's also the basis of a future short story.
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