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Source: Write What Someone Knows by Ben Jeapes

As this is my last blog post before 2017, it seems appropriate to round up my year’s reading. I did well this year – almost a hundred books read from cover to cover. I’m not counting books I bought and … Continue reading →

Joe Monti’s piece on the Tor.com website In Praise of Humour in Fantasy and Science Fiction prompted the following thoughts. I’d love to be able to write humour. Joss Whedon is my hero for his snappy one-liners. Buffy the Vampire … Continue reading →

Last week I attended Science for Fiction Writers, an event organised by Dave Clements (or that should be Dr David Clements), a senior lecturer in astrophysics at Imperial College, London and also a writer of science fiction. Science for Fiction … Continue reading →

I’ve just spent four days in Bath researching Georgian buildings and costume and generally soaking up the atmosphere of one of England’s finest Georgian cities. I don’t actually use Bath as a setting in my work in progress (Silverwolf, the … Continue reading →

I may have a slightly weird perspective on agents because I am one–not a literary agent, but a music booking agent. In my day job I run a music agency arranging tours and getting gigs for folk musicians, home grown … Continue reading →

It’s that time of year again. My fiction reading is always severely restricted when I’m writing, particularly when i’m at the first draft stage. I’ve done a lot of writing this year. I finished off Crossways, which came out in … Continue reading →

I refer you to other posts that I’ve made on great books for Christmas presents–and, of course, you can always buy mine–but I wanted to go through some of the books I’ve read this year and bring them to your … Continue reading →

I am so lucky to be published by DAW. My editor commissioned the very talented Larry Rostant to do the cover for Winterwood.  I’ll talk about how the cover developed in a future blog post, but in the meantime, here’s … Continue reading →

I’ve just returned from Fantasycon, this year held in Nottingham at the Conference Centre and Orchard Hotel in the University grounds. It was a good location: comfortable hotel, plenty of parking and the added bonus of being slightly less that … Continue reading →

I’m going to be starting a new series of guest blog posts in September, so I thought I should have a go as answering the questions I’m going to be asking my speculative fiction-writer victims. Tell us your biography and … Continue reading →

With Crossways only just on bookstore shelves it seems slightly odd that instead of rushing round doing lots of promotional blog posts, I’m already editing the next book which is a historical fantasy – a million miles away from my … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Sheffield Fantasy & Science Fiction Social Club:
The third SFSF Social went off with a bang last night – if you weren’t there, here’s a taster of what you missed (and some advance details of the next…

Our kids think we were born in the stone age because so much changed in the quarter century between my childhood and theirs. Less has changed in the gap between their childhood and our grandson’s. Computers and space flight were … Continue reading →

John Scalzi’s recent $3.4 million book deal for Tor for 13 books over a period of ten years is brilliant news. Concratulations to him (and to Tor). Now the dust is beginning to settle he has some thoughts, which are … Continue reading →

I’d like to welcome my friend Terry Jackman to the blog today to talk about her new novel, Ashamet Jacey and I met at Milford several years ago. In fact the opening of my debut novel, Ashamet, got an airing … Continue reading →