Feb 29, 2016 | Blogroll, Genre: Science Fiction
Wow, I’m editor’s pick of the month for the March edition of The Horror Zine edited by Jeani Rector who has recently won awards for her editorship. Not only is my story Song of the Multitude been chosen but it sneaked in there alongside the famous horror...
Feb 27, 2015 | Blogroll, Genre: Science Fiction, Writing
I spent a week with my lovely wife on the volcanic island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. Idea: get away from her work pressures and the frozen north of England; get me away from the web and writing. We took books both Kindled and papered and enjoyed our apartment...
Nov 6, 2014 | Blogroll, Writing
In Britain we have Guy Fawkes Night during which we light bonfires and explode the sky with fireworks to celebrate the fortuitous apprehension of Guy Fawkes and his compatriots on November 5th 1605 – known as the Gunpowder Plot. Guy was part of a conspiracy to blow up...
Jun 13, 2013 | Blogroll, Writing
Yes, into the depths of the first purpose-built seaside town in the world (probably), I took a bag of books, files, newspaper cuttings and ideas to hone story what-ifs to the already gifted writers of Llandudno. The topic was What if, and I started with a couple of...
Jan 9, 2013 | Blogroll, Genre: Science Fiction, Writing
Geoff Nelder’s Imagination Factory is found at the top of my headed note paper. I laugh each time I see it because it is kind of a steampunk image of an engine driving cogs and wheels in my head generating ideas. I think I must have been lucky that I day dreamed...
