Simon & Schuster UK and SFX Magazine have flown me and Rebecca over to England for a week of promoting Hellhole, which was just recently released.  Leaving Colorado early Monday morning (just ahead of the onset of a nasty blizzard and plunging temperatures), we flew to Washington DC, changed planes, then headed off to Heathrow, landed at 5:30 AM, and arrived at the hotel just as dawn was breaking.  Fortunately, our room was ready, so we were able to nap for a few hours to reset our schedules.

Thirty copies of the new book waited for us in the room for me to sign and doodle in for a limited-edition bookseller (I’ll post the link here as soon as they’re available).  I finished ten of those before the car rounded us up in the afternoon to go to the Simon & Schuster main offices, where we spent several hours meeting our editors, publicist, marketing directors, and being interviewed by a science fiction magazine.

We returned to the hotel for an hour in the evening; I finished a few more of the signed/doodled books, then we changed clothes and went out to meet Vivian Cheung, Nick Landau, and Cath Trechman from Titan Books and Forbidden Planet, who will be reissuing my novel Captain Nemo this September.  (One of my favorites of all my novels, and I’m very glad to have it being reprinted.)  We ate a wonderful dinner at Rules, the oldest restaurant in London—good English bitter beer, razor clams, monkfish cheeks, rump steak, oxtail, and for dessert sticky toffee pudding and banoffie pie.  Excellent.

This morning (Wednesday), we were able to catch up on sleep and finish resetting our schedule. Now, our train just left Liverpool Street Station on the way to Norwich for some book signings.