Paul Cornell’s Friday Newsletter
For 4th October.
London MCM Comic Con
On Saturday, 26th October, I’ll be a guest at the London MCM Comic Con, doing panels and signings!
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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!
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!
The Work of Friends
First up, a whole bunch of indie authors, including my friend Jendia Gammon, have contributed to the Western North Carolina Charity Anthology project, to raise funds for relief efforts in the wake of the devastating hurricane there. Do take a look.
And secondly, my friend the comics writer Cavan Scott has a new title out now from Magma, Night of the Slashers, his pulpy love letter to slasher movies, with art by Paul Fry. Teens vs. An entire town of monsters and slashers! Who if any will make it to dawn? It’s The Purge meets Freddy Krueger!
My Week
I’m very attuned to the turn of the seasons, and the first meeting of my local Festival committee in preparation for next year’s event is one of those moments which happens at just about the same time every year. It’s dark outside, I put on my coat and I walk over to the Cricket Club, where the meeting takes place in the bar, carrying my bag with notepad and pen. Of such routines, annual and daily, is calm created. Or at least it is for me, someone who, while enjoying novelty, also seeks predictability, almost as much as my autistic son does. Thought Bubble is another such moment, one I associate with the long drive up, mostly on the old roads of Britain, with very few motorway stretches, with the cold, crisp evenings of Harrogate, with the pleasure of meeting my audience at the table, and especially with the company of Liz, who I get to see for a whole long weekend.
This week has been very good for such routines, in that I’ve done the same things work-wise every day: read at least 30 pages of (redacted), because I’ll be writing the sequel and then read at least three issues of (redacted), because I’m writing a non-fiction book about it, taking notes on both as I go. I’ve also managed to get my 10k steps in every day. In the background some truly enormous career matters are ongoing. As of today I still don’t know if a particular deal is signed, but if it is then you’ll see a sign of one of them soon, though when you do I probably won’t be allowed to identify it as such. Also, an artist has just got to work on a new creator-owned comic I’m writing, and seeing their first character designs has been a great pleasure.
Sorry, annoying, I know. I’m eager to share, but I really can’t. One thing out in the open is great fun: if you backed Who Killed Nessie? on Zoop, in the next couple of days you’ll be getting a (very relaxing) video of Rachael Smith drawing one of our characters, just our way of making sure you know we’re working hard and you’ll get your book. (And it’s looking so good!)
Thomas, meanwhile, has been doing great at his specialist senior school. Every time my catastrophising brain has gone on alert because he’s said some minor thing that might be construed as negative, it’s turned out to be fine. The other shoe has not dropped.
My brain, forged as it was by trauma in childhood, has trouble with everything being okay. But right now… no, I’m not going to jinx it.
To Be Continued
I’m looking forward to the moment(s) when I can stop being secretive.
Until then, I look forward to seeing you all next week!