"Pretty Little Dead Things"...the first official review

Well, the first review is in...and thankfully it's a damn good one so I can start worrying about something else:

The Black Abyss Review of PLDT

I'm not sure the reviewer got my references to David Peace's work in the rythms of some sections of prose, but that's okay. He called the book "brilliant" and compared it to early Clive Barker and that's fine by me. More than fine, actually.

Bloggist

I've been guest-blogging at the rather good online home of Simon Marshall-Jones. The topic of my little diatribe? E-books and onions.

Check it out: McMahon Guest-Blog

FantasyCon - The Week After

Blimey, FantasyCon was a bit of a blast. I got stupidly drunk, did a few signings and a hungover panel, and basically just spent a lot of time with some of the best people on the planet.

I've also had one or two interesting projects come out of the weekend. Keep watching this space and I'll announce things as they take shape.

FantasyCon timetable and other bits and pieces

This Friday it's FantasyCon - a booze-soaked gathering of genre writers, publishers and fans in a seedy hotel in Nottingham. I have a reasonably full dance card this year, so for anyone who's interested here's what I'll be up to:

I arrive around 6pm on Friday, so have kept my time open and will be in the bar socialising and talking bollocks. Then it's down to business...

Saturday 18th September

10:30am - Reading
1pm - The End of the Line launch & signing event (Solaris)
2pm - Never Again launch & signing event (Gray Friar Press)
4pm - Cinema Futura launch & signing event (PS Publishing)

Sunday 17th

10:00am - Panel: What's New - how important is originality in horror fiction? (Me, Mark Morris, Rio Youers, Tom Fletcher and Joe D'Lacey.)

I hope to see some familiar faces, and meet some new ones in the bar!

In other news, I've been interviewed here by Alan Kelly: Q&A

Solaris Cover Art

The truly gifted Vincent Chong is doing the cover art for all three of the Concrete Grove novels I'm currently signed up to write for those wonderful people at Solaris, and directly above you can take a look at the first two. Personally, I think they're fucking stunning - I actually got a bit emotional when I saw them, because I've been thinking about this project since I was sixteen...

Anyway, I hope you like them as much as I do.

McMahon Q&A

There's a brief Q&A stye interview with me on James Roy Daley's blog.

You can check it out here: McMahon Q&A