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What is it with these pushy minor characters? You're tooling along nicely from plot point A to plot point B you need someone to lay som...

Yes folks there will be 4 B7 Audio Episodes on BBC 7 this June, two of them written by me and two by inestimable Simon Guerrier. You can lis...

Bill Nigh is note perfect as the ageing actor, occasional lothlorio and reluctant amateur detective Charles Paris. Beautifully adapted from ...

Just a quick note to say that my three book deal with Gollancz is now official . I'd post more but for some quaint reason Del Rey and Go...

I’ve just finished N.K. Jemisin’s ‘The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms’ and a damn fine book it is too. In turns intriguing, terrifying and exciti...

First some caveats: I have no academic training whatsoever and the following blog has been written because I’ve decided to articulate some t...

Spring is in the air, daffodils are thrusting their way through the dog poo, spontaneous singing can be heard from the high rise blocks and ...

The epigram on this subject is that you should write the other only when it ceases to be the other. This is both glib, true and, on its own,...

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve just done a 3 book deal with Del Rey the first book to be published in spring 2011. The announcement by my...

On the orders of my agent I am supposed to try and make a post to my blog at least once a week. Those that know me know that this level of p...

Today I received a rejection email from Sheil Land Associates exactly 6 months and 4 days after I first submitted my work to them. The email...

As reported in a previous post I finished my contribution to world culture at the beginning of July. For a couple of month my manuscript sc...

Amazon are already taking pre-orders for The Dust Run/The Trial, the latest addition to the Blake's 7: The Early Years audios. This one,...

I just found this in the Xmas 1995 edition of Ansible... ... the infallible Robert Sheckley cure for writers' block. He said he tried ...

Also the best script editor I've ever worked with, writer of comic plays (my favourite kind), has lent me money when I was skint and is ...