Paul Cornell’s Friday Newsletter

For 27th September. An extraordinary work week.

London MCM Comic Con

On Saturday, 26th October, I’ll be a guest at the London MCM Comic Con, doing panels and signings!

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We’re Going Back to Thought Bubble! (And I’m a Guest!)

Lizbeth Myles and I will once more be running at table at the great Thought Bubble comics convention in Harrogate on 16th-17th November! I’m looking forward to meeting once again so many lovely comics fans. And this year I’ve once again got guest status, which is a lovely gesture.

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The Death of Wolverine

As announced here on ICv2, on 27th November Marvel will be releasing an omnibus edition of the Death of Wolverine storyline, featuring not only the miniseries of that name, but also my entire run on the comic. I’m very pleased that all this material will now be available in one volume.

There are going to be two covers, this regular one from Alex Ross…

And this direct market exclusive version from Joe Quesada.

It’s available to pre-order on Amazon, and at all good bookstores and comic shops.

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My Ko-fi and eBay Stores

I’ve re-stocked my Ko-fi store, where you can buy my books and comics, signed and personalised, and now I’ve set up shipping to a range of international destinations.

Similarly, I’ve now re-stocked my ebay store, full of Bronze Age Marvel comics at bargain prices.

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The Future of Hammer House of Podcast

Hammer House of Podcast, in which myself and Lizbeth Myles watch the Hammer horror movies in UK release order, is out on the 13th of every month, with our September episode being about The Woman in Black: Angel of Death.

You can get these episodes free wherever you normally get your podcasts, as well as on our site, but if you sign up to our Patreon, for any sum of money from £1/$1, you get an extra episode every month too, on the 27th, in which we watch Patron requested movies and films from other horror studios of the same era.

In November we reach our final movie, so in our October episode we’ll be announcing the title and theme of our sequel podcast, which will begin in January. (We’ll have a special HHoP episode in December.) Patrons will be automatically subscribed to the new podcast at their current level, but if you are one of our Patrons you should of course feel free to opt out if you don’t like our new subject matter. We hope you’ll be quite pleased, though!

When HHoP finishes we’ll be leaving X and establishing accounts for the new podcast on Bluesky and Instagram. And of course I’ll be announcing all the news here.

(This was much better than we’d heard it was.)

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Find my Books at Bookshop.Org and Help Out Indie Booksellers!

Bookshop.org is a collective selling tool that sets up a marketplace for all indie bookstores in the UK, functioning exactly like Amazon, except you’re supporting your local bookshop. You can find a selection of my books here, and I get a little cut of the proceeds too if you order from here!

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My Linktree

You can now find all my social media links, my website/blog and links to where you can buy my books, in one place here, thanks to Linktree!

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My Week

Well, Thomas is very happy at his new school, so that’s baseline happiness for me achieved immediately. I asked him this morning what he was going to do for the ‘choose your fun thing’ at the end of Friday, and he replied ‘the sensory room is wonderful’. We did have a bit of a row last night about playing ball in the rain, with him continually complaining about the rain as he bounced on his trampoline, then throwing the ball to me (not, I think, *at* me), when it had splashed in overflow water from the drain, resulting in me… getting that in my mouth. Urrgh. But he slowly let off steam by muttering and yelling, muttering and yelling, until the yells slowly subsided. Not a bad strategy. The huge amounts of rain we’re getting lately are un-nerving him, largely because he knows rain sometimes blocks the satellite signal and so the television goes off, and his routine with it. And he’s also regularly complaining about the amount of traffic on the roads now we’re driving to and from school, because that gets in the way of his need for promptness in all things. Me, I was annoyed during that game of ball not because he wanted us to stay out there as the rain got harder, but because he was complaining loudly about said rain all the time, grumpy about being out there. It’s those moments when his autism shades into irrationality and self-defeat that I still find hardest to deal with. Perhaps because I feel those traits in myself.

But anyway, all the above is minor. Baseline happy, as I said. And work-wise, well, I suddenly find I have a lot of exciting stuff happening. All I can do is hint, of course. A very exciting possible TV thing is happening late next month (it’s nothing to do with Doctor Who, and I hate always having to say that, but if I don’t then my excited revelation if it happens will be met with disappointment by a large part of my audience). A very exciting radio thing is in and pitched and we’re waiting to see. And I currently have two prose books commissioned and on deadline, one non-fiction, one… fiction. (Again, not Doctor Who.) And last night I had a very exciting meeting about a comics thing. There are two or three other big things happening as well. I’m forcing myself to get to the halfway point of the spec novel I’m writing (the bawdy fantasy comedy), which finishes Act Two of that book, and thus leaves it at a point where I can put it aside for a while, then I’ll dive into the deadlined stuff. The plate spinning has reached some sort of all time record, but I’m handling it. It’s not daunting as long as one keeps all one’s deadlines written down, and doesn’t think about all the other stuff one isn’t doing in any given moment.

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To Be Continued

I’m very much looking forward to announcing the sequel to Hammer House of Podcast next month. And at Gallifrey One in February, I’ll be doing something I’ve never done before!

And I hope to see you all again here next week!