toby frost

The publishers tell me that you can win a copy of the new book on Goodreads. I'm not sure how this works - I don't use Goodreads, although I probably ought to - but here is the link: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/98441-end-of-empiresI%27ll

Right then, chaps. The new book, End of Empires, will be launched at Forbidden Planet in London on the 30th of this month, at 1pm. That's Saturday the 30th, at 1. Further details (and a rather nice cover, if I may say so) are here...

You should go to this. It includes me and a range of proper writers doing talks and workshops. Also, the food is good, it's not very expensive and you get to meet agents. Can't say fairer than that, can you? Home

If anyone's interested, I have a Pinterest board, and it's here: Toby Frost is tobyfrost on Pinterest

So, whilst not writing more Space Captain Smith or the great unpublished fantasy novel, I wrote a book for Black Library set in the Warhammer 40,000 world. It's out today in ebook format, and will follow in hard copy. There aren't any jokes, but vast amounts of alien monsters, hard-bitten space...

The writing group I attend recently tried to collect bits of advice from its members. Here is what I came up with. Don't take these as absolutes: they're what works for me, and I think that they're generally true, but there will be exceptions. Feel free to disagree: perhaps it's a little...

26th August 2013 05:19 AM Teresa Edgerton Toby Frost declares that he originally intended to write deep philosophical novels. Instead, he elected to become a man of mystery (no biography of the elusive Mr. Frost can be found on the internet) and write humorous science fiction. Recently...

An exclusive Chronicles interview with Toby has just been posted to the Chrons Home page. http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/2013/08/26/tea-and-lemming-men-an-interview-with-toby-frost/

Yay! It's an interview with me! In fact, it's Revenge of the Interview: years ago, when I was young and naive, Mr Thaddeus the Sixth of this very site interviewed me on his blog. Now my jaded self contemplates the hard-living, garrett-dwelling path of authordom: Thaddeus the Sixth...

Mr Noah Chinn (whose book Bleeding Heart Yard I enjoyed a lot) offered me a guest post on his blog. I was going to weigh in on some of the issues affecting science fiction these days, but instead I wrote a piece about comedy, and some of the challenges it poses for readers and writers. I'm not...

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the new Space Captain Smith book, A Game of Battleships, is now available to pre-order from Amazon. Interestingly, it appears that it will be released on the 12th of August, which I'm informed is the start of grouse season in Scotland. So if you get...

Here are some chapters from City of Knives, my fantasy novel. I hope people enjoy them. And, er, that's about it! http://www.tobyfrost.com/images/city_of_knives-chapter_1.pdf And now with chapter two! Guilds, murder, conspiracy, fey folk, burglary, magic and amateur bookkeeping...

Well, it's the time of year to ding dong merrily and be nice to orphans, and in recognition of this, here is this year's festive offering. If you've been wondering what Smith and his crew have been doing this year - and even they are not sure - here is a delightful summary, as written...

Hello! Right then, the first of what I hope will be some good announcements over the next few months. I've got a new website! It's for me, rather than Space Captain Smith, and while the Smith website will remain (and grow!) the Toby Frost site is going to have related stuff, including...

Hello Toby, I appreciate that your Space Captain Smith books were ended quite satisfactorily but I wandered what your plans were with him and his bold and fearless crew.

Hello all! The festive season has rolled around again, and a hearty bearded fellow makes his way through the snow to seek out jolly company. Who could it be? That's right, it's Beowulf! This Christmas' offering features that most festive of themes: Viking versus space monster. After all, what...

In a slight change from the norm, I have a short story out in Issue 13 of Hammer and Bolter, Black Library's online magazine for short fiction. I'm Tom Foster, if you're wondering. It's not Space Captain Smith, but plenty of stuff does explode, so all's well on that front...

Apologies if someone has already posted about this. I was browsing through the Big Waterstones in Piccadilly and came across this series. The blurb on the back compares it to the Flashman series (which i've wanted to read for some time, but haven't got round to getting). They look pretty...

This month sees the release of The Immersion Book of Steampunk. And I'm in there! Somehow I sneaked into the prestigious and serious-minded contributors and put in a story about violence and mayhem in His Imperial Majesty's Postal Service, entitled (wait for it) Rogue Mail. It just goes to...

Philip Reeve - he of the Mortal Engines series, author and generally good egg - got in touch and we did an interview. Actually, it's more a general chat about things of a vaguely steampunk nature, and whether Grace Darling and Charles Babbage would make a good crime-fighting team. Anyhow...