Thoroughly enjoyed Armadacon last weekend. I admit that I usually go to Armadacon mainly to see the other regular attendees. I liken the con to a family wedding, where only the relatives you actually ENJOY talking to have turned up ( Read more... )

I remember ranting about Dream Sequence a while back, so I guess this is rant number 2 ( Read more... )

I have a fantasy short story included in Storm Constantine's latest Wraeththu Mythos anthology: Para Animalia Squee, squee and more squee!

It has a gorgeous cover by Ruby. My author's copy has just turned up and I'm itching to read the rest of the stories.

Just back from ArmadaCon 24 in Plymouth, which was its usual entertainly silly self. The guests were comics writer Ian Edginton and pathologist Dr Pat Harkin, both of whom were excellent choices. Poor Ian had to leave early because his family fell ill, so various other guests, including VFX guru Alan Marques and various local artists, stepped in to ( Read more... )

I took part in the Bristol Citywide Story a couple of weeks back, and the whole story is now up online here.It was sort of a game of Consequences - one group started the story, another wrote the middle, another the end - and each only had an hour to do it. The folk that wrote the end didn't get to see the beginning, only the middle, so the plot ( Read more... )

I've been trying to pin down what it is that attracts me to science fiction and various other genre fiction, such as crime and westerns, whereas my interest in mainstream is minimal. I think it boils down to the following ( Read more... )