Gollancz very kindly gave me a guest spot on their blog this week. You can read the result here.

A reminder that I’ll be breaking off from my rewrite marathon on Saturday week (the 2nd) to sign books at the little Green Dragon Bookshop in Alton, Hampshire (and to go to the pub afterwards). The signing runs from 2pm to 3pm, and is part of Alton Wordfest literary festival, which will actually have been […]

Last week at the Birmingham SF Group meeting the interviewer asked me whether I was still learning, as a writer. The answer I gave was, of course, yes. Improving in the craft of writing gives me satisfaction and pleasure, though it does mean I’m sometimes leery of reading stories I wrote before I got to […]

Another review came in over the weekend, this one from The Guardian. It’s always nice to get reviewed amongst the big boys (even if they are almost always, actual boys). It was a fair review, I thought, and I have to plead guilty on the one negative point raised (actually, it was Fiji).

I’m off to Birmingham for my appearance at the Brum SF group meeting this evening (details below for anyone who’s interested). I’ll leave you with this review of Guardians of Paradise from Swedish SF blogger Cybermage. I’d like to think every review will be that comprehensive and complimentary. It does come with a slight warning: […]

I should start my review of this collection of short stories with a confession: I wanted to be in it. I still love short stories, even if I don’t get time to write (or read!) them enough these days. Music is also very important too me, although I’m strictly a consumer, not a producer, when […]

I should start my review of this collection of short stories with a confession: I wanted to be in it. I still love short stories, even if I don’t get time to write (or read!) them enough these days. Music is also very important too me, although I’m strictly a consumer, not a producer, when […]

Today’s a proper Book Birthday – the official release date of Guardians of Paradise. For reasons I’m not entirely sure of, it’s two weeks earlier than originally scheduled. I shall celebrate letting my third book loose on the world in some way yet to be determined, probably involving alcohol. And a reminder about other ‘me […]

This week I’m concentrating on ‘writing admin’, including work on an essay and a book review I’ve been asked to write, and sending out a few short stories in the hopes of selling them. I’m also taking the chance to revisit stories that need rework before they go to a magazine; like the novels, my […]

When I mentioned to a colleague at the current day-job (yes, I’m afraid I still need one of those to get by) that I’d finished the first draft of my current novel he asked whether the next stage was to send it to my editor. Well, no. Getting the first draft down is, for me, […]