Since it’s only a week until The Drowning Girls comes out (the release date is August 17th, this Thursday) things have started to get exciting! I was delighted I was featured on Sarah Girand’s Brutally
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Dear Amy makes list of Airtours Top books to read on holiday 2017
I’m delighted to announce that Dear Amy has been selected as one of Airtours top books to read on holiday for 2017! I’m in good company, the list including such luminaries as Kit de Waal
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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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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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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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Embracing your inner narcissist with Google Glass
So, recently it was finally my turn to play with the Google Glass kit at work. I did find that quite cool. The bare bones kit comes not so much as glasses as a pair
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Review: Guardians of the Galaxy
Oh wow. Loved Guardians of the Galaxy. Just loved it. It was just gorgeous to look at, full of bright pinks, vivid yellows and electric blues. It wore its kitschy, space opera dressing like a star. The
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Review: Dawn of the Planet of the Photorealistic Apes
Recently it’s almost been like the universe is very sorry about what happened a week ago with the whole Transformers affair. It is going out of its way to apologise. After last night’s night raging funfest
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Review: Transformers: The Age of Extinction (or There Is More Than One Kind of Dinosaur)
I saw Tranformers: The Age of Extinction. In 3D, no less. A reasonable person may be inclined to ask why. And to be honest there is a straight answer to that question. Frequently I will
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