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The ‘Journeys’ Anthology. My first publication of 2017!
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Pre-publication news! As of 15th February, the new anthology ‘Journeys’ will be available. Fourteen tales of daring, death, and glory, by fourteen talented writers - to be specific: myself alongside John Gwynne, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Gail Z. Martin, Julia Knight, Juliana Spink ( Read more... ) -
Why this weekend’s reading has got me writing.
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Longstanding readers will know that I generally sign off a year’s blogging on Christmas Eve and resume around January 2nd. They’ll be wondering what’s happened, given this is my first post of 2017. Well, I simply haven’t known what to say.
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Reflecting on 2016. Do I really have to?
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Around this time of December, I usually do a sort of round-up and conclusions from the past twelve months post, before signing off until the New Year.
This year? I really don’t know what to say. The future, politically at least, looks so uncomfortably uncertain, here in the ( Read more... ) -
A VATMOSS update. What? Did you think we’d given up?
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Not a bit of it. Throughout 2016, whenever we’ve been told ‘there should be some news by such-and-such-a-month’ we’ve noted that in our diaries, and followed up accordingly. No one has been left in any doubt that we’re not going to let this drop, in the nicest possible way.
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If you’re going to tell lies, what’s your justification?
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We all get used to the idea of little white lies; of resorting to minor dishonesty to smooth over social difficulties. Saying ‘I’m so sorry we can’t come to the party, I’m coming down with some sort of cold and I wouldn’t want to spread it around’. When actually, it’s just ( Read more... ) -
An update on updates
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Right, we’ve hit the halfway mark on the Desert Island Books (and music) list, so this looks like a good time to put those on pause. I’m off to Moniack Mhor on Monday, and that’s going to be a full-on week of teaching and mentoring - which I am really looking forward to - so I ( Read more... )
