Had a lovely day – I had decided yesterday to pitch up at the Folio Prize Festival at the British Library. I was late and missed most of the first panel, so I lunched vaguely and turned up for the first
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Tidings from London
So, rather wonderfully, Michael Joseph are publishing Dear Amy in Spring 2016. Michael Joseph are an imprint of Penguin Books I must say that I met a load of cool people during the auction, but I was blown
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Review: The Colour Black by Maia Walczak
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: The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1)
On a world colonised by humans, Todd has been raised in a town inhabited solely by men. In Prentisstown, everyone is cursed with a kind of a telepathy called Noise. This renders their thoughts and
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Yay! Rejoice! So, wonder of wonders, Sex and the Single Hive Mind, my black comedy from the Mind Seed anthology, is featured as the podcast over at Crime City Central! (NSFW, I’m afraid, due to
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LonCon 3 – Reaping the Whirlwind
Back from LonCon 3, which I only attended on Sunday. That said, I have still managed to pick up some kind of bug! Absolutely packed day, but looking back I didn’t do that much, compared
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Location Scouting – Blakeney
Another fantastic day – I drove out to Blakeney, looking for locations for Martin and his house. It was idyllic and strange and faintly off-kilter – in short, exactly what I was looking for. I
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Writing in the Cambridge University Library
Had a wonderful day writing in the university library, with a whole room-with-a-view in the North Front to myself because there was only one desk there, complete with plug. I must have been inured
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