Although I don’t get to many conventions these days I always enjoy Bristolcon. It’s ‘small but perfectly formed’ and also not too far to travel. I’m on two panels this Saturday: 11am – The Ethics of a Fictional War. Do authors have a responsibility to honour the horrors of war, or is a fictional war […]
The Three Body Problem by Lui Cixin is some seriously mind-expanding SF. I’m talking here about the original three books, as I’ve yet to read the later but related one(s), so no spoilers please. Talking of which, the below may contain minor spoilers, but hopefully nothing plot-breaking. I did have some issues, mainly with the […]
Strange Attractors, a collection of short stories, is out today from Newcon Press. It covers 20 years worth of my writing, and a wide variety of subjects. OK, it’s all ‘spec-fic’ (or SFF, or whatever you want to call it) but as well as my ‘default’ genre of science fiction I’ve dabbled in fantasy, alt. […]
Doctor Who was my gateway drug into SF when I was a kid growing up in the country with no geeks within miles, back before the internet was more than a gleam in Tim Berners-Lee’s eye. I was therefore delighted when, back in 2018, Big Finish commissioned me to the write a Dr Who story. […]
As I may have mentioned elsewhere, Strange Attractors, my short story collection, is out next month from Newcon Press. You can find the full details here, should you be so inclined.
As you know (Bob), social media is a mixed blessing. So many possibilities to express ourselves and connect, so many opportunities for increased freedom of expression… such a gift to opinionated dickwads. Anyhoo, as you also know, Twitter (which was my preferred place to confer my wit and wisdom upon a tiny subset of the […]
As well as making stories, I make costumes. Most notably, medieval clothes, many of which I then wear as part of my re-enactment habit, I mean hobby. So when author Phillip Reeve approached me to ask if I could help with the costumes for his short Arthurian film ‘Gwenevere’ I said I’d love to. I […]
This week I was interviewed for a podcast (more on that later) and the presenter kindly offered me the chance to promote my stuff. Being (a) British and (b) female this was somewhat excruciating; even more so as I don’t have much to promote right now (this may change soon: again, more later). Of course […]
Last year RichCast, the new mobile storytelling app, commissioned me to write an interactive story for them. I collaborated with artist Alex Storer (some of whose works grace my walls at home) and I have to say the end result looks pretty damn fine – there’s a trailer here. ‘Saving the Arkship’ is now available […]
After some years absence – for reasons both obvious and not – I was glad to make it to Eastercon this year, even if it was just for the one day. I was naughty, and ‘bar-conned’ it, though I may have snuck into the con itself for an hour or so, in order to spend […]
(By ‘here’ I mean on my dining table. Though you can actually buy it here.) I was delighted to be invited to contribute to this anthology, which was originally inspired by the loss of several musical legends over too short a period a few years back. One of those legends was Bowie, who is my […]