The roots of the eternal struggle just to sit down and write.
Nando’s Update 3: The End
Nando’s update 2: Zero Hour
Facing Fear, Embracing The New.
Cancellation (sorry!)
The Super Relaxed Fantasy Club I’d been invited to speak at this coming Tuesday in London has been cancelled due to tube strikes. With any luck it’s being rescheduled for next month. Will keep you updated. Oh, and I support the strike.
Read more "Cancellation (sorry!)"What I Watched: The Sudbury Devil (2023)
If you’ve read my fantasy novels you’ll have guessed I’m a sucker for folk horror, particularly the historical kind. I’ve even developed a kind of ritual whenever a promising new movie in the folk horror genre appears. This ritual I call ‘Folk Horror and Thai Takeaway Night’ on account I had a Thai takeaway the […]
Read more "What I Watched: The Sudbury Devil (2023)"Appearance: London, January 9th!
Mark your calendars! I’m doing a chat/reading at Super Relaxed Fantasy Club along with awesome authors Stark Holborn and Josh Winning! 9th of January, 7.00pm at The Star Of King pub, London.
Read more "Appearance: London, January 9th!"Wiktionary Cites My Book!
My proudest moment. Wiktionary has cited Pennyblade as an example of a certain rare term. It feels grand and humbling to give back to the dear old mother tongue.
Read more "Wiktionary Cites My Book!"This One Weird Mecha Trick Protects Me From Bad Weather!
With temperatures plummeting like a hammer off a high scaffold and the rains splattering the streets like someone beneath said hammer I think its time I revealed a secret about myself: in bad weather I often pretend I am a robot. Let me ‘unpack that’, as Buzzfeed columnists inevitably used to say by the second […]
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