The 15 April 2008 Version

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THE RAGWITCH HarperCollins USA paperback

SABRIEL HarperCollins UK

LIRAEL HarperCollins USA hardcover/paperback

ABHORSEN HarperCollins UK paperback

SHADE'S CHILDREN HarperCollins UK paperback

MISTER MONDAY Scholastic USA  paperback/hardcover

GRIM TUESDAY Scholastic USA  paperback/hardcover

SIR THURSDAY Allen & Unwin Australia paperback

 

LADY FRIDAY HarperCollins UK paperback

ACROSS THE WALL HarperCollins UK paperback

THE FALL (THE SEVENTH TOWER #1) Scholastic USA new paperback

CASTLE (THE SEVENTH TOWER #2) Scholastic USA new paperback

AENIR (THE SEVENTH TOWER #3) Scholastic USA new paperback

ABOVE THE VEIL ((THE SEVENTH TOWER #4) Scholastic USA new paperback

INTO BATTLE  (THE SEVENTH TOWER #5) Scholastic USA new paperback

THE VIOLET KEYSTONE (THE SEVENTH TOWER #6) Scholastic USA new paperback

ONE BEASTLY BEAST HarperCollins USA hardcover

A representative sampling of US, UK and Australian covers for my books. The Seventh Tower covers are new ones for a re-release in 2008.

This is my erratically maintained personal website. However there are other, more professional efforts out there at www.garthnix.co.uk, www.keystothekingdom.com.au, www.abhorsentrilogy.com and www.scholastic.com/titles/keys

Some of My Favourite Books: An Alphabetical Remembrance

 

Frequently Unanswered Questions

 

The Short and
the Long Biography

 

Writing Advice

 

‘The Nine Stages of a
Garth Nix Novel’

 

How I Write:
The Process Of Creating A Book

 

 

Down To The Scum Quarter
An Interactive Text Adventure on the Web

 

 

My New Really Epic
 Fantasy Series

Warning for the literal-minded: this is not serious

 

 

 

Some Sabriel covers from
around the world

 

 

 

 

Contact Information

 

If you would like to get a postcard from me, write to:

 

Nix Entertainment Pty Ltd

PO Box 2308

Clovelly NSW 2031

AUSTRALIA.

 

Or send an e-mail requesting one with your postal address to:

 

garthnix at ozemail dot com dot au

 

(replacing the words with the usual symbols)

 

Unfortunately I usually cannot reply to e-mails (I need to spend pretty much all my time writing books) but I do personally read all letters and e-mail and I appreciate receiving all communications. But if you ask for a postcard, you will get one!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Several steps closer to a SABRIEL film . . .

 

One of the frequent questions that I usually don't adequately answer is about what is happening with a possible SABRIEL film. Well, today I can say a bit more than usual as PUBLISHING NEWS has reported on the "package" that we have put together and will be taking to studios in Hollywood in a few weeks.

 

That package is:

 

DIRECTOR: Anand Tucker (HILARY & JACKIE, SHOPGIRL and the original director of THE GOLDEN COMPASS before he left over creative differences)

 

WRITTEN BY: Dan Futterman (Academy Award nominee for his script of CAPOTE and also well-known actor, most recently in A MIGHTY HEART) and Garth Nix

 

PRODUCED BY: Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B (Brad Pitt's production company).

 

I have always said that I wanted to co-write the script and work with people who had made great films and whose work I respected, this team represents the achievement of that goal.

 

I'll keep you all posted on what happens from here. Obviously we hope it will proceed, but it may not, given the vagaries of the film world.

 

The PN report is here http://tinyurl.com/423995

 

SUPERIOR SATURDAY all done, out in June/July 2008, sample podcasts

 

Much later than I should have, and with the help of very understanding editors and publishing staff, I have finally signed off on the page proofs. SUPERIOR SATURDAY will be out in June 2008 in Australia, and July in the USA and UK. I have also recorded (with a cold, so they could sound a lot better) a podcast of the prologue and some of the first chapter, which will be up at the various websites listed above but right now you can find them at:

 

http://www.allenandunwin.com/_uploads/documents/kidsandteens/Superior_Sat_prologue.mp3 and

http://www.allenandunwin.com/_uploads/documents/kidsandteens/Superior_Sat_chapter1.mp3

 

Read some of my fiction free online

 

My Aurealis award-winning novella “Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go To War Again” has been made available to read for free by the good folks at JIM BAEN’S UNIVERSE.

 

My Ditmar-nominated story “Bad Luck, Trouble, Death and Vampire Sex” from the ECLIPSE anthology has been made available by the kindness of Night Shade.

 

(Both of these stories are for adults. The second one contains lots of swear words.)

 

The first chapter of A CONFUSION OF PRINCES is also available here.

 

THE SEVENTH TOWER released in the UK

 

THE FALL, the first book in THE SEVENTH TOWER sequence which was originally published in the USA in 2000, has been released in the UK. The series is also being republished in the USA with new covers.

 

IMPERIAL GALAXY The Science Fiction MMOG on Facebook

 

The Open Beta test continues. If you have a Facebook account or want to start one, you can add the game right now here, or from the website www.imperialgalaxy.com which also has more information about the game. (Or you can add it from the Facebook application directory.) There is now also a wiki at www.imperialgalaxy.com/igwiki

 

We also have a related gift application on Facebook called MY FAMILIAR, featuring the beautiful eggs painted by Jonathan Nix and animated familiars by Jonathan and Brendan Williams.

 

Also, I am happy to friend any readers who would like me to do so on Facebook. Unfortunately I don’t have time to respond to all the various gifts, pokes, vampires etc

 

More Old Kingdom Books to come, other news

 

I will be writing two more novels set in the Old Kingdom and Ancelstierre. They will be published by Allen & Unwin in Australia and by HarperCollins US and HarperCollins UK.

 

The first, probably out in 2010, will be Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen, which is the story of the young woman who eventually became Chlorr of the Mask. It takes place about 320 years before the events in Sabriel. The second is untitled, and is a sequel of sorts to Abhorsen, taking place several years later. It should be out in 2011. Both 2010 and 2011 seem like a long way away but no doubt will sneak up on me horribly when I least expect it. Sometimes I think time is a practitioner of the secret Welsh martial art of Llap-Goch.

 

There will also be a standalone science fiction novel, called A Confusion of Princes, which should be out in 2009. This novel provides the background for the mmog IMPERIAL GALAXY and you can read the first chapter here

 

Lady Friday came out in March 2007

 

     

 

LADY FRIDAY was released in March and got up to #4 on the overall bestseller lists in Australia and was the #1 children’s title for March and April, was as high as #9 in the UK Children’s bestseller lists (competing with all the World Book Day specials) and the whole series got back on to the New York Times Children’s Series bestseller list. Click on images to order from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Allen & Unwin. Or here from Infinitas, Dymocks, Shearer’s, Galaxy

 

 

 

 

 

   

One of the things that cheers a writer’s heart is when an old book comes back in a new edition somewhere. This August a new hardcover edition of my 1997 SF novel Shade’s Children will be released in the UK by HarperCollins.

Shade’s Children was also re-released last year in paperback by Allen & Unwin in Australia (second left) and in a new paperback edition by HarperCollins in the USA in 2003 (third from left). The original 1997 HarperCollins US hardcover (right) is also still available. There are three other English-language paperback editions around, an earlier Australian one, an earlier American one and a special UK promotional edition from 2004. Parents and others who might be concerned, please do note this book is for young adults (i.e. teenagers and up) and it does contain swearing (though not some of the words I’ve been criticized for putting in it, which has always been rather a puzzle), some sexual content, violence, mature concepts and other adult matters. All of it in context, with consequences.

 

    

 

Sir Thursday (Fourth in my The Keys to the Kingdom series)

Click on pics for Amazon, Allen & Unwin, Amazon UK, here for B&N, here for Powells and in Australia here for Galaxy here for Dymocks here for Shearer’s Bookshop here for Infinitas

 

Abhorsen/Old Kingdom Trilogy Box Set

The two boxed sets are still available. HarperCollins UK Box Set of the Old Kingdom Trilogy (also available in an Allen & Unwin branded version from Dymocks in Australia) and the HarperCollins US Box Set of the Abhorsen Trilogy

 

 

 

My Books

 (links will come one day, just search ‘Garth Nix’ on any online bookstore)

 

 

The Old Kingdom Trilogy (also known as The Abhorsen Trilogy)

Sabriel

Lirael

Abhorsen

 

Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen (2011)

Untitled (2012)

 

The Keys to the Kingdom

Mister Monday

Grim Tuesday

Drowned Wednesday

Sir Thursday

Lady Friday (March 2007)

Superior Saturday (2008)

Lord Sunday (2009)

 

 

Stand-alone Novels

The Ragwitch

Shade's Children

 

Story Collection

Across the Wall: Tales of the Old Kingdom and Elsewhere

 

The Seventh Tower

The Fall

Castle

Aenir

Above the Veil

Into Battle

The Violet Keystone

 

Very Clever Baby Books

Very Clever Baby's First Reader

Very Clever Baby's Ben-Hur

Very Clever Baby's First Christmas

Very Clever Baby's Guide to the Greenhouse Effect

These are all effectively out of print, but may return some day.

Chapter Books for Younger Readers

Bill the Inventor

Black Bread the Pirate

Serena and the Sea Serpent

To be collected with new story The Princess and the Beastly Beast in
One Beastly Beast (2007)

 

 

 

 

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