Jun
08
So we’re getting quite near the publication date of the Glass God (whoop whoop!) and I figure I’d take this moment to lift some of the litany of complaints from the forthcoming book, that your average mystic community support officer can run into at work… Sharon was not a morning person. She sat behind …
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Jun
01
So, these guys: http://www.pornokitsch.com/ … are cool. They’re cool people who keep a cool blog and like cool books. Actually, more than that – they like awesome books. They like exciting fantasy and science fiction that’s intelligent, interesting, and not necessarily something you’d expect to find on the 2-for-1 table of your local bookshop with …
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May
24
Look! Something I can talk about! I wrote a short story for these dudes… http://alchemypress.blogspot.co.uk/ … and it’s being published and everything in a book called Urban Mythic, scheduled for later this year. I mean, I grant you it’s short, but in fairness, other cool dudes wrote loads of short stories too so technically it’s …
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Apr
26
Yeap. It’s deja vu. The overwhelming sense of ‘haven’t I read this before?’ even though technically, I’m the only person in the world (so far) who’s read what I’m currently reading. And worse – a worry that my word count, as I edit, is getting longer. Longer! I believe in deletion. Editorials are a glorious …
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Apr
17
So, I don’t like Star Trek (though might see the new film…) … but always had to admire the way it got on with a narrative. “Sir!” says Spock, staring into a blinky blinky screen, “I can see from my read out that we are orbitting above a planet of Earth-like qualities, resembling, in fact, …
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Apr
09
I shall bake a cake! Do the washing up! Sort out the laundry! I shall… … do my lighting design jobs! Tidy paperwork. Organise my folders on my computer. It seems… … but is not the case… … like this is the kinda thing you do when you have writers block. But no! This is …
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Mar
26
I’ve been accused of being a tease! Moi? A tease? I grant you, I’m still not going to tell you about topsecretprojectwhatI’mnotallowedtotalkaboutreally because I’m really, really not allowed to talk about it. I mean seriously, there’s whole contractual business about why I can’t tell you about it. Sorry. But! I can tell you that the …
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Mar
12
… take it out on fictional people! Look at Matthew Swift. In the 5 novels he’s appeared in so far, he’s been…. … shot, stabbed, burnt, kidnapped, chased, bitten, blinded, dropped from great heights, punched, ensorcelled, haunted by the ghosts of those he’s slain, tormented by meta-mystical dragons, betrayed, locked up, drugged, drained of blood …
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Mar
06
So a few weeks ago, scientists dug up the corpse of Richard III. Analysis of the skeleton showed that he had a twisted spine, though there was no indication of a withered arm. Members of the ‘Richard the Third Society’ were very excited by this find, as they seek to ‘rehabilitate’ a character who was …
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Feb
15
I was trying to explain a TV program to a couple of friends of mine. It goes like this: “So there are two dudes… one’s clever with machines, one’s clever at hitting things. Every week they’re told that someone is going to do something – maybe kill, maybe be killed – whatever – and they …
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