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		<title>Sod this, let&#8217;s just call it all &#8220;weird&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a corner of my local Waterstones where angels fear to tread, an unholy trinity of shelves marked Science Fiction &#38; Fantasy, Horror and Dark Fantasy. I am invariably drawn to it on my visits, enjoying reading books that are invariably stocked there. Lately there have been some additions, giving the section as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbarnett.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6417618&amp;post=686&amp;subd=davidbarnett&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Kitschies &#8211; a rum do</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written a piece for the Guardian about the unveiling of the shortlist for the Kitschies Awards 2011. This is a relatively new award and fast-becoming one of the most progressive and hip prizes on the circuit&#8230; gutted I didn&#8217;t get a nomination for popCULT!, if only to nab one of the bottles of Kraken [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbarnett.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6417618&amp;post=682&amp;subd=davidbarnett&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BSFA Awards nomination for popCULT!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was very pleased to see that popCULT! has been nominated for a British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) award.

You can see the full list of nominations here - by dint of my surname I was actually top of the alphabetical list for a while, until someone went and nominated those pesky writers Dan Abnett and Ben Aarnovitch.
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		<title>Tidying up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The previous front page has been archived in the news section to allow easier and tidier updating of this front page.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbarnett.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6417618&amp;post=677&amp;subd=davidbarnett&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life on Magrs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[popCULT! available now for pre-order!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbarnett.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6417618&amp;post=21&amp;subd=davidbarnett&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letters You Never Sent</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was asked by the lovely people who run the Letters You Never Sent podcast on NTS radio to write a letter to the year 2060. I did, and I sound dreadful, like a 1930s miner performing an uncomfortable funeral reading. But there are some other great things on it, including an interview with Steve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbarnett.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6417618&amp;post=668&amp;subd=davidbarnett&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wigan Evening Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Charles Graham at my hometown newspaper  the Wigan Evening Post for this great write-up about the Tor deal. If you click on the thumbnail it should open up into a readable size.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbarnett.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6417618&amp;post=672&amp;subd=davidbarnett&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three book deal with Tor (US)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am delighted to announced that my agent John Jarrold has negotiated with Tor US a three-book deal for me. The books will be a steampunk series featuring the hero Gideon Smith. Full release here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidbarnett.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6417618&amp;post=675&amp;subd=davidbarnett&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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