Shell-Shocked by @howardkaylan
For the next month or so, most of my writing time will be taken up with copy-edits on the Beach Boys book and on my novel (along with the Doctor Who posts and How To Build Your Own Time Machine). So...
View ArticleFaction Paradox: Against Nature by Lawrence Burton
Full disclosure before I start this — I am friendly with the author and the publisher, and I also potentially have a book coming out from this publisher. I don’t think that this has biased my opinions...
View ArticleFaction Paradox: The Brakespeare Voyage
Now I’ve finished the latest draft of my novel (and hopefully any further revisions will be relatively minor rather than the major changes I made this time) I can get back to blogging, and to start...
View ArticleHugo Blogging: Best Novella
Here we get to another of the controversies surrounding this year’s Hugos — the “Sad Puppy Slate”. Novelist Larry Correia put together and promoted a slate of works for this year’s award, which he...
View ArticleHugo Blogging: Best Novelette
My thoughts on the nominated novelettes: The Lady Astronaut Of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal is a very touching story about lost possible futures, whether the futures we give up for others or the...
View ArticleSelling Themselves Down The River
I am getting more and more annoyed at self-publishers. Before anyone gets confused, I self-publish myself. While the next book of mine to come out is likely to be through a traditional publisher...
View ArticleThe Pendragon Protocol
(Ob. disclaimer before I start — I know Philip Purser-Hallard, he’s an internet friend, and he’s commissioned me to write for an anthology he’s editing. However, I got to know him because he’s a...
View ArticlePre-Order Tales Of The Great Detectives Today!
The City of the Saved houses every human being who ever lived… but some of its immortal Citizens need more. For the Remakers, one fiction above all exerts its fascination: a character existing in...
View ArticleThis Week’s Goodreads Reviews
As I’ve not been doing very well at reviewing books on here — and as I’ve not had the energy to write full blog posts recently because of my health — I decided this week to write a short review, only a...
View ArticleThe Shepherd’s Crown
The Shepherd’s Crown by Terry Pratchett My rating: 4 of 5 stars It could have been a lot worse.As Rob Wilkins explains in the afterword, Terry Pratchett hadn’t actually finished writing this when he...
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