#simon roy

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[simon-roy]

the very cool guys at Grafito Editorial are putting out a spanish version of my book Habitat RIGHT NOW (check out the pre-order page here)

Even cooler, they're including the story @turndecassette2 and I made as part of this new edition!

[simon-roy]

So, as part of the general cross-promotional push for the softcover release of "A Star Called The Sun", I'm trying something a little different. I got contacted by this social media shirt company called TEEZR about doing some sort of merch drop, and, being the savvy-ish businessman I consider myself, my idea was to merge merch drop and promotional push into one demonic union! Whether it sells shirts or books, of course, remains to be seen, but a fella can hope, eh?

Here's the copy I wrote for the shirt itself:

A CROSSOVER OF EPIC PROPORTIONS! To celebrate the upcoming release of “A Star Called The Sun” from Image Comics this February, Simon Roy has partnered with Teezr to produce the limited-edition MARTIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE T-Shirt! Pulled straight from the comic page, this gorgeous shirt depicts a Terran Commando enjoying a well-earned dart after a tough engagement (presumably inside a pressurized environment with a safe, non-flammable air mixture).

The link to the shirt (shown above) is here, and the book it's promoting can be found by clicking through the image below!

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The humble village necromancer’s temple. The design mimics the tiered shape of reality itself. The world tree above ascends to the heavens, and beneath it all, the stone chamber of the underworld, where the necromancer does his work…

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The man you talk to when your uncle inconveniently dies before the big harvest: The village necromancer. Face always hidden, to protect him from wayward spirits; arms bound in protective amulets; skulls of the village’s previous necromancers, kept on hand for troubleshooting…

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A Karazadi highland peasant and his uncle (deceased, reanimated) bringing goods to market. The uncle’s head rests in the family crypt, while his body soldiers on…

[simon-roy]

Do you have any plans for a paperback release of Refugium or Miramar?

Neither have immediate plans for a paperback release - which is not to say no plans. Ideally, I would like to do a little more on the planet of miramar with @stefantosheff (we have loose outlines so far, but no scripts prepared as of yet)... and our overarching plan for future tales on this planet would involve collecting all the MIRAMAR related stories into one paperback at image, probably after one more hardcover.

Refugium will be a lot more straightforward to take to paperback, but I've got to get "A Star Called The Sun"'s paperback out first and see how @imagecomics feels about everything. My dream is to get ALL of it in mass market trade paperback so its cheaper and easier to find, but one step at a time!

[simon-roy]

I just finished "A star called the sun" and while I love your worldbuilding and characters, the stories left me underwhelmed. It was like taking a very small bite of a really good dish, and finding there's no more

I wanted to see more of the catholic robots, the space tree, the martians, the castaways who befriend the giant aliens, the scribe, the nuns, the settler age, the war gods... I wanted to see more of it all

For your next book maybe you could make it a single story instead of an anthology, or if it must be an anthology, maybe the stories could converge in some way, instead of just happening on the same universe

That said, I love the alien designs, and the vehicles, and the architecture, and the characters (I liked the dynamic between the nuns and the scribe, I wanted to see more of that)

Also the edition is beautiful, just feeling the cover is very nice

This is a funny one for me, because in all honesty, the larger stories are much more of a struggle for me - i have lots of ideas and not the most time in my ever-dwindling life to execute them, so generally I have been compromising by giving them a couple months of my free time each, instead of spending a whole year working on just one one. This anthology was actually quite fun and freeing to make because it was all of the unhomed short stories i've worked on over the years. There's also something lovely, I will admit, to hear that you left wanting more... not as good as leaving fully satisfied, i'd admit, but not bad still. But sometimes, I only have enough for a single tale. I loved the world of the abbey, with the nuns and scribe, but I didn't have any other ideas for that specific setting!

That being said, if you like these stories, I have a whole host of other, longer books you can also buy... and some longer stories coming down the pipe in the coming years! Griz grobus and Refugium spend a lot more time in their respective settings, as does habitat...