OUT & ABOUT announces events and public appearances.
Well, it's out! DRACONIS, from Templar Publishing, has arrived. I spent a busy few hours signing several boxes of them (thanks to the very kind person who did the unwrapping and re-wrapping, otherwise I'd still be at it) and they are all ready to go. The Weta Cave has...
Going to be signing books at the Librarie La Bulle, in Fribourg, Switzerland, on Friday January 25th. We'll be starting at 5 p.m., and hopefully will be able to do at very least a signature for everyone. Twenty tickets will be handed out for drawings, so best reserve...
Or an Oriental Tale of Mélusina When I opened the curtains of the 25th-story hotel room in Hangzhou in the early morning and looked out, I really did wonder where I was. It’s not that the trip had been a long one, but tacking a three-hour flight at the end of a most...
Or A Walk Along a Wall When I was a kid, I remember being told (and of course believing, since adults repeated it with great conviction) that the Great Wall of China was the only man-made structure that could be seen from space. Now, I was going to see it from rather...
Followed by A Day Out in Beijing When I finally made my way out Exit B at the Beijing Airport, I was hoping there would be somebody with my name on a sign. There is always something about getting on a plane to head off somewhere that fills me with a mix of mounting...
Upcoming Signature Sessions With the French edition of Forging Dragons soon out, we will be organizing a few signing sessions with the Payot bookshops here in Switzerland. Tuesday April 7th: From 16h30 to 18h30 Payot la Chaux-de-Fonds 25, Av. Léopold-Robert, 2300 la...
Or Empires Within, Empires Without Yes, I realize the title sounds like the name of a lacrosse team (but it’s only to insure that my compatriots read this.) Nevertheless… A summer ago, I spent a few days in Toronto giving a little talk at IdeaCity and shooting a...
Or Thoughts Along the Dnipro Early last December, looking out the hotel window at the blowing snow, I thought “Well, I’m in Kiev.” Every time I end up in some out-of-the-ordinary place, it takes my mind a while to catch up. Landing in the Ukraine at 4 pm it was...
Or When Does Going Back Turn Into Going Around in Circles? I used to keep a diary. Regularly. Or at least until it became clear that I was using it to carry on conversations with myself. (I used to be schizophrenic, but we’re better now…) So I eventually gave it up...
Or the Unexpected Benefits of a Poor Memory I confess, I had forgotten a lot. I had forgotten the American mania for putting ice in every beverage. (Perhaps this is why global warming seems such a distant concern in the US, every American is busy tryingto warm up his...
Or How Do You Say “Dragon” in Danish? Afternoon off from film editing in the Danish capital (which incidentally was quite a pleasant surprise, I thought I had been booked on a flight to Stockholm until the lady at check-in said “Straight through to Copenhagen, sir?”,...
Or Inspecting the Instigation of Inspiration… I keep getting asked about inspiration - from where does it come, how does it arrive, where does it take you… Is it a tempest or a slow wave rising, a wild horse with no bridle or a pair of timid eyes you have to coax out...