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This January sees the release of his second novel Gun Machine from Mulholland Books, his second full-length prose work since 2007's Crooked Little Vein Although primarily known for his comics work, in particular his political SF series Transmetropolitan, he's steadily produced a parallel body of prose work ranging from essays–many of which have been collected[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes; Last week, I introduced you to Roz Kaveney and her first published novel RITUALS: RHAPSODY OF BLOOD Book One The novel features parallel plotlines about two very different women: Mara the Huntress, an immortal who witnessed the dawn of the first gods and has spent the last few millennia curving her way through[...]

Only problem is, it's not a comic book. Here's the UK cover for Gun Machine, his new novel, featuring a hole in the middle of the cover, indicating a gun shot, and revealing a second, inner cover. Gun shots have been used in comic book die-cuts before, Punisher War Zone #1 standing out in my mind[...]

Alasdair Stuart writes for Bleeding Cool I'm at GenCon, in Indianapolis at the moment, and earlier today, Tracy Hickman held a panel on his new Batman novel; Wayne of Gotham The novel follows Bruce Wayne as he's forced to re-0pen the case of his parents' death and, in 1957, Bruce's father Thomas Wayne as he struggles[...]

Warren Ellis' new novel is now on Amazon US and Amazon UK, the latter of which has the following description. This morning Detective John Tallow was bored with his job. Then there was this naked guy with a shotgun, and his partner getting killed, and now Tallow has a real problem: an apartment full of guns[...]

He has adapted many a film in novel form, and novels to comics, specifically Stephen King's Dark Tower, and is a successful novelist and a comic book writer in his own right. But now he's doing the adaptation thing to the Joss Whedon/John Cassaday run on Astonishing X-Men, turning the run into a series of novels,[...]

The Wind Through The Keyhole is an upcoming Dark Tower novel from Stephen King, out now in a limited illustrated version before its mass market version in April. And he has recruited the artist of the Dark Tower comic books, Jae Lee, to provide illustrations Probably what Lee was doing before Before Watchmen. Here are a few… [...]

I'm talking about The Walking Dead. Specifically The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor, the new novel written by Jay Bonansinga from an outline by series co-creator Robert Kirkman The novel fills in the back history of the infamous character known as The Governor, and is bursting at the sutures with dark twists, shock terrors, and[...]

The debut novel, Shatter Me,  in a new YA series by Tahereh Mafi, it sets up a whole world with a backdrop where anything might happen, because who can you trust to tell you what really is and isn't? Mafi was kind enough to spare some time to talk about her new book. Which came first, the[...]

Bleeding Cool is very hapy to feature the first two chapters of Dodge & Twist, the new novel by New York Times bestselling graphic novelist Tony Lee A sequel to Charles Dicken's Oliver Twist, it can be bought for the Kindle here in the UK and here in the US. Here's an embedded preview. Bleeding Cool[...]

In a short interview with the Washington Post's Comic Riffs, Neil Gaiman talked about his sequel to American Gods, descibed as the "'bubbly new glittery gods' of a technology and media culture trying to supplant the aging Powers That Be Threatened." "There definitely going to be some Twitter in American Gods 2…Not Twitter per se, but[...]

We knew that a Walking Dead novel was coming We knew it was part of a trilogy We knew it would be outlined by creator Robert Kirkman and written by horror novelist Jay Bonansinga. Well, now we have the title, cover and synopsis And it's a doozy. Entitled Rise Of The Governor, the book is described thus; In[...]

This is the cover to Richard Ford's Kultus, a fantasy novel from Rebellion's SF/Fantasy imprint Solaris scheduled for around this time next year. And the illustration in question is straight from the boards of Batman And Robin/Gutsville/Judge Death artist Frazer Irving. The book solicitation reads; Thaddeus Blaklok – mercenary, demonist, bastard and thug-for-hire – is pressed into retrieving[...]