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The Skull Throne Tour: Manchester & Leeds

Posted by Meg

Last night, Peat traveled to Manchester and Leeds to chat with fans and sign copies of The Skull Throne. Check out the pictures:

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Lunchtime signing in Manchester

Joshua holds up pound for scale of poster

Peat’s agent Joshua shows how large the sign is, using a pound to scale it!

70 plus people in audience

With 70 plus people in the audience!

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Q&A

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With Melanie

Rachel Photo Apr 12, 11 42 28 PM

Rachel taking tea with Rojer!

Mark brought hand bound notebook as gift

Mark brought a hand-bound notebook as a gift

Author-AJ-Dalton

With author AJ Dalton

AJ also wrote about the event on his blog

Little Charlie and dad Ian

Charlie and his Dad Ian

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With Joseph

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Rachel and friends

Christie brought a kc&dw pin

Christie brought this Keep Calm and Draw Wards pin

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The Q&A just got exciting!

Signing Obaid's tee

Obiad wanted his T-shirt signed!

Obaid warded shirt

Artist Katie Colbrook

With awesome artist, Katie Colbrook

Neil Photo Apr 13, 12 45 29 AM

With Neil

Megan-Abigail

With Megan and Abigail

Mick Photo Apr 13, 12 44 51 AM

With Mick

Andrew Photo Apr 13, 12 41 42 AM

With Andrew

Emily Photo Apr 13, 12 13 09 AM

With Emily

Sam-Steph

With Sam and Steph

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With Priya

Richard Photo Apr 12, 11 53 30 PM

With Richard

Sam-Steph mug1

Demon Cycle mug!

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Made by fans Sam and Steph, featuring beautiful Lauren K. Cannon Demon Cycle art

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Next stop on the U.K. Tour will be in Nottingham at 12:00pm this afternoon. Or you can catch Peat tonight in Milton Keynes at 6pm. All tour stops are listed here.

Posted on April 13, 2015 at 9:30 am by Hannah
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The Skull Throne Tour: Birmingham & Liverpool

Posted by Meg

Last night, Peat traveled to Birmingham and Liverpool to chat with fans and sign copies of The Skull Throne. Check out the pictures:

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First on the day’s itinerary was a lunchtime signing in Birmingham!

Artist Luke Fielding from contest fame

Luke Fielding, of fan art fame, dropped in

Luke brought funki Arlen as gift

And left Peat this funki Arlen as a gift!

Imran

With Imran

Trevor

With Trevor

Staring contest with Mat

Staring contest with Mat

Zara made the sharum shirt for her baby

Zara made this awesome Sharum shirt for her baby!

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With Malcolm

Joseph motocycled over from Brussels!

Joseph motorcycled over from Brussels to attend the reading!

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Signage for the evening event in Liverpool!

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Skull Thrones on sale!

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Q&A in Liverpool!

Matt Photo Apr 11, 8 12 54 PM

With Matt

Emily Photo Apr 11, 8 25 10 PM

With Emily

Next stop on the U.K. Tour will be in Manchester at 12:00pm this afternoon. Or you can catch Peat tonight in Leeds at 5pm. All tour stops are listed here.

Posted on April 12, 2015 at 8:00 am by Hannah
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The Skull Throne Tour: the Grim Gathering

Posted by Meg

Last night, Peat traveled to Reading and Bristol to chat with fans and sign copies of The Skull Throne. It was also the third Grim Gathering with Joe Abercrombie, Peter Newman and Mark Lawrence. Check out the pictures:

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Q&A with the Grim Gathering!

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With Carol Hinds and her Ashia Cosplay

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Carol Hinds Sharumting 2

Claire brought Cassie Acorn Girl fanart 1

Claire brought Cassie Acorn Girl Fan Art

Jude Photo Apr 11, 12 41 45 AM

With Jude

Andrea Photo Apr 11, 8 09 04 AM

With Andrea

Ishu Photo Apr 11, 9 05 22 AM

With Ishu

Becky Photo Apr 11, 8 44 20 AM

With Becky

Antony Photo Apr 11, 12 44 44 AM

With Antony

Fans tom & Laura as Arlen-renna by John Baker

Fans Tom and Laura as Arlen and Renna. Art by John Baker.

Afterparty

Afterparty!

Next stop on the U.K. tour will be in Birmingham at 12:00pm this afternoon. Or you can catch Peat tonight in Liverpool at 6pm. All tour stops are listed here.

Posted on April 11, 2015 at 9:30 am by Hannah
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Forbidden Planet London Launch!

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Last night, Peat celebrated the U.K. release of The Skull Throne in London with a stellar group of fans. Check out the pictures:

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With fan Sue

Sue Armitage 3 Author Seanan McGuire AKA Mira Grant

With author Mira Grant

Birte Widmann & friend Lina1

With superfan Birte and her friend Lina

Chantal Lyon-my first fan

With the first fan of the Demon Cycle, Chantal!

Cosplayer Freijya as Renna_gave me her knife!

Freijya showed up in FULL Renna Cosplay! Check out the beautiful accessories 

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Renna and Writer

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Ren strikes a pose

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Check out those wards!

My Cover Artist Larry Rostant1

Larry Rostant, responsible for U.K. AND U.S. covers, came to the signing!

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Posing with Rojer!

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Rebecca

With Rebecca

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Kwaku

With Kwaku

Jonathan

With Jonathon

James

With James 

Bianca

With Bianca

Amy

With Amy

Alice

With Alice

Aimee and Rob2

Aimee and Rob

Next stop on the U.K. tour will be Reading at Waterstones at 12:30pm this afternoon. Or you can catch Peat in conversation with Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence and Peter Newman at the Grim Gathering tonight at 7pm in Bristol!

Posted on April 10, 2015 at 9:30 am by Hannah
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U.K. Skull Throne Launch Day & Giveaway!!

Posted by Meg

The Skull Throne launches today in the U.K.! Order your copy today from Waterstones, U.K. Amazon or your local bookstore!

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Peat is arriving in London today to kick-off his tour with a London Book Launch! The Q&A/signing event begins at 5:30pm tonight at the Forbidden Planet Megastore in London! You can RSVP for this event on Facebook!

In honor of launch day, we are holding one last giveaway for a beautiful warded Super ARC of The Skull Throne!

Warded UK ST ARC

For your chance to win a signed copy, let us know what your favorite UK cover has been! Arlen, Jardir, Inevera or Rojer!!

Please leave your answer in the comments of this post! A winner will be picked tomorrow morning, so get your answers in today!

The UK Skull Throne Tour is on! And he is making lots of stops in and outside of London.

The Skull Throne is out in the U.S. and U.K. as of today!! Purchase the U.S. edition today or pre-order the U.K. book here. International translations to follow.

Posted on April 9, 2015 at 10:00 am by Hannah
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