Jul 5, 2025 | Blogroll
Help! I’ve been invited to be a ‘featured author’ at Chester’s newest bookshop – Books on the Walls – on Saturday July 12th at 2pm for about half an hour. If you’re free and in the Chester, UK area then you could do worse than turning up to boo, hiss or buy a coffee,...
Jan 17, 2025 | Blogroll
SUPPOSE WE has been out for a year or two but unbelievably there are some science fiction readers who do not know about it. So I fell for an advert where a video creator proposed his services – Visdon Media. A 20 second reel for a handful of dollars. So I outlined the...
May 2, 2022 | Blogroll
Using side stories to help promote a main novel. This isn’t the same as when readers of a novel urges you to write a sequel. A side story might be in the same time line and characters and settings might be referenced but it shouldn’t depend on the main...
Jun 8, 2021 | Blogroll
When bile is beautiful In my SUPPOSE WE science fiction novel, the Chief Science Officer, Gaston, is enamoured by an alien butterfly he calls Papillon. The creature looks like a butterfly with the size of a Red Admiral, but it really is in a symbiotic connection with...
Mar 23, 2021 | Blogroll
Robots are vegan unless there are animal-based lubricants and other parts used. Aggressive AI would likely be vegan even if they have zero compunction on expunging organics if they get in the way. The laws of robotics are only relevant for readers of Asimov, which...
