Had my mind blown when I passed through Leicester uni campus and saw this cut out of the first class at Leicester uni in 1922. I knew two of them! Miss Bennett (back, far left) and Miss Smalley (back, far right). I visited them in an old people’s home a couple of times when I […]
Read more "History Ain’t Even History"I was invited as a guest to Derby’s wonderful EdgeLit convention last Saturday and I had a blast. I’ll admit I was frightened beforehand. I’d been asked to run a workshop when I’d never done such before. To my surprise the class was fully booked and I found myself standing before twenty expectant folk. I […]
Read more "Edgelit Was A Fine Ass Day!"Just picked up my author’s copy of Writing The Magic, sent to me by Dead Ink Books. Always get a kick out of seeing me words in ink; this time an essay rather than a story. I tackle the legacy of Michael Moorcock’s Elric Of Melniboné. Some wonderful authors in this one. If you want […]
Read more "Writing The Magic"CINEMA RULES! I’d seen Mulholland Drive maybe 10-15 times in my life but never in the big screen until the other night. Something I’d never noticed- could never have noticed on a tv screen- was this here shot. In the scene they’re watching a show about lies, art and fabrication. ‘What you’re seeing is a […]
Read more "Never Noticed This One Wild Bit In Mulholland Drive Before…"I invent a cocktail for every book that sees print. Recently made The Keep Within.50ml of port.200ml of tonic.3 slices of orange, squeezed and thrown in.Stir. Lovely summer drink!
Read more "The Keep Within Cocktail"Looks cool don’t it? Of Dread, Decay & Doom is shaping up to be a great horror anthology. As always with a Stars & Sabers anthology, it’ll be a kick-ass lineup of writers with some names you may know and new names to learn. My own contribution is, I believe, the best horror tale I’m […]
Read more "Cover Reveal For New Horror Anthology"Bringing a bit of Sci-fi class to the front room. Original magazine cover painting by Eddie Jones and a 1969 typewriter once belonging to John Brunner. He very possibly wrote Stand On Zanzibar on it.
Read more "Sorting Out My Bookcase"So I’ve a new Kyra-from-Pennyblade story coming out in Of Enchantment, Enigma And The Infinite, an anthology of tales involving magic. The story is called The Point Of Art and is the first thing to feature the scurrilous problem-pixie and disaster-sapphic Kyra Cal’Adra since her debut in Pennyblade. So why bring her back? And why […]
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