Well I said I was going to do a casting call for Ironclads, and I shall, but something else has transpired that’s probably worth a brief comment. As of a week or so ago, I am officially a full-time writer. (fanfare) As is probably fairly well known, I’ve had a day job as a lawyer for a good long while – 15 years, with the last […]
Been a ridiculously long time since the last post, but I have had 2 rounds of edits on both Children of Ruin (May 2019) and Cage of Souls (April 2019) and frankly am probably about to get slapped with the same for Walking to Aldabaraan (Also May?) — thankfully I have Civilian Reader about to actually tell people what's going […]
I've had some deliveries from Kickstarter recently, including a few that have absolutely floated my boat in terms of both look and mechanics. It's a rare and beautiful thing when a game's theme is comprehensively supported by the way it plays, and I wanted to flag up a couple in case readers who like this sort of thing haven't come […]
Firstly, I am absolutely blown away by the number of people who entered. I honestly thought I'd be left with books left over, but no! And with this goes a general apology to everyone who did enter, but who I didn't pick. Second, people who chose octopuses are hopefully going to be all over the Children of Time sequel, […]
For those that missed it, The Expert System's Brother has been released by tor.com as a lovely novella which has been getting some very pleasant reviews (including this little piece in Locus). It's turned out very well, I think, and please consider giving it a look if you fancy. Today (ish, as some e‑copies went out earlier this week) sees the […]
Better late than never! I have been overwhelmed with books to read this year, and it was seriously looking as though I'd not get the Clarke's shortlist in. The mid-range prognosis was helped by the fact that I've already read the nominees for the BFS Holdstock award (the one Tiger & Wolf picked up last year, ahem hem), […]
It's been ten years. *Ten years* Empire in Blacks and Gold was published in 2008, this very month*, coming out to what I see in retrospect was actually quite a decent reception. Since when there's been a lot of water under the bridge, and things have been going frankly better than I could ever have […]
"GONNA REC IT!" as seen in Ralph II where the destructuve anti-hero takes up a quiet post in a library and guides people towards appropriate reading material. Anyway, I am up to my eyeballs but want to get some book recs out there before I, hopefully, get the Clarkes shortlist written up (which, owing to a mountainous reading pile, […]
Which is to say that I have some book recs but they're some of them ARCs so some of these won't be out for a while. Usual apologies for the long paws, as Rex would say. My fairly decent excuse is that I have finally delivered (delivered three separate times in fact (1)) the MS for my sequel […]
I'm on the very point of heading to Manchester for the Starburst Mediacity (1) film festival, where among other things I may get to guest on an episode of the Brave New Words podcast, but just a brief post on Things I Have Coming Out shortly or later this year. Firstly, I am one of a few contributors to Rebellion's Dracula, Rise […]
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