This last week, now my own book has gone off, I need to catch up with those other diversions I’ve been forced to postpone. At the moment I’m reading six books and watching three movies and
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My first review – Mind Seed
So, rather wonderfully, I’ve been mentioned in a review for “Sex and the Single Hive Mind”. This is the SF/horror story published in the Mind Seed anthology, over at SF Crowsnest. For my part it’s
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That First Draft Feeling…
The first draft of the new Dear Amy went off to my agent yesterday. I am having a little breather to try and catch up with books, computer games, and TV box sets. Believe it or not,
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Review: Medea
So, a friend of mine mentioned that she was off to see Medea at the cinema, in a live broadcast from its last night at the NT. This reminded me I’d not seen it despite having really
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Medieval Cookery: Pies de Parys
So, since it’s Sunday and I’ve been working very hard on the book, I fancied something indulgent, and settled on Pies de Parys, a meat pie from Pleyn Delit. This pie, from Harleian MS 4016 (dating from around
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