This was an article I wrote for Risingshadow.com back in ’22 when Pennyblade debuted. I think it still holds true today given the average fantasy reader, much as I love them, can be surprisingly conservative in an unexamined sort of way. Including the progressive ones. My upcoming novel, Pennyblade, has been getting mixed reviews in that […]
Read more "Fantasy And Vulgarity"Bill & Ted made another movie and almost no one saw it. FREAKED (1993) was the brainchild of Alex Winter (Bill!), a full throttle FX-laden belly laugh comedy in which a former child star agrees to promote a toxic fertiliser and ends up mutated with a whole bunch of mutants, including Keanu Reeves (Ted!) as […]
Read more "What I’m Watching: Freaked (1993)"Just watched G.I. Samurai (1979) in which a squadron of modern soldiers end up Japan’s Warring States period. It’s like they took every Tokyo schoolboy’s playground game and filmed it with thousands of extras. There’s something exhilarating in watching a tank blow up waves of medieval soldiers (who just keep on coming!), especially from the […]
Read more "What I’ve Been Watching: G.I. Samurai"An advert for my Feral Space sci-fi novels in an Eastercon guide (can’t quite remember when or where). The ad was written and designed by Jay Eales who totally understood the assignment. Awesome work sir!
Read more "Mind-Blast From The Past…"It struck me as something of a face saving exercise for Iran after their embassy got hit. They only used about a fifth of their drones and ordinance, announced they were going to do it and then it took a day for them to reach their targets. The Iranian dictatorship has to look strong in […]
Read more "Iran’s Drone Strike"Got to play a lovely Epiphone Jack Cassidy today while practising for our very casual Cure covers band ‘Incurable’. Never played a hollow body bass before. Sumptuous!
Read more "Unsleepy Hollow!"youtube.com/shorts/UTlXjW7rWg4
Read more "Happy Dimetrodon Day!!!"Amazeballs time at Super Relaxed Fantasy Club in London last night. Me, Josh Winning and Stark Holborn got to read to a full upstairs pub and chat to peeps. Titan Books, our publisher, turned out in full force, as did Max my agent and a few of my family (London division). SRFC is a blast […]
Read more "Super Relaxed Fantasy Club!"In London tomorrow evening? Come see authors Stark Holborn, Josh Winning and myself for chat and readings! A gargantuan night of wonder!
Read more "Appearance: Star Of Kings Pub, London, 7pm Tomorrow!"
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