Reviews and reviewers are both the saviour and damnation of writers. Without reviews, our work will go unnoticed and our efforts unrewarded, but like a two-edged sword, it cuts both ways. Last year, Angry Robot Books held a launch party at Forbidden Planet in London, which was great fun, thanks to the efforts of all…
I Should Be Writing…
SF Site Interview
As the title implies, it was my great pleasure to be interviewed recently for SF Site by the lovely and charming Sandy Auden for her column: News Spotlight. The full text of the interview is here, but since then I’ve had more time to reflect on my answers and, consequently, wanted to share a small…
Planning for 2010
With it being almost the end of January, I am busy planning the events for the year ahead. Already things are getting booked, so I thought I would share what’s up and coming on the calendar front. Firstly, we have the Phoenix Convention or PCon as it is probably better known. This takes place on…
New Year Greetings
Happy New Year. Yes, I know it’s the middle of January and I know that everyone else stopped saying that a week ago, but I’ve been busy, so I would like to wish you all a happy, healthy and prosperous 2010 now, while there’s still some January left. The reason my new year greeting is…
Global Cooling
Here in the UK, the cold weather is finally upon us. Cold air over continental Europe will, this week, hold back the giant anti-cyclones out in the Atlantic and result in cold and frosty mornings – at least that’s the forecast. When one lives in Britain, one gets used to the weather being a subject…
Bedford Signing – Sat 5th December
For those of you in the Bedford area, I will be at Waterstones on Silver Street in Bedford on Saturday 5th December for a signing and ‘meet the author’ type event. The event starts about 10am and will go on until we either run out of books or I get really hungry, probably about 3pm…
Temple and the Templars
Regular visitors to these pages will by now be familiar with the Ceremony of the Quit Rents and some of the rituals and artefacts associated with the ceremony, in particular the six horse shoes and sixty-one nails referred to in the newly released novel, which is for a forge in Tweezers Alley, just south of…