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The downside to the wham episode cliffhanger season closer is that, when the new season finally rolls around, you have to sit through a dul...

Those of you who follow my current reading blog may have noticed that a fair amount Jack Vance creeping in. This is because Gollancz's e...

Next weekend I shall be off to spend another glorious weekend by the sea courtesy of SFX Magazine who, no doubt worried they'd miss thei...

It's been a year and a bit since my first non tie-in novel was published and I've read a lot of reviews. I tried not to but I could ...

I Fiumi Di Londra - otherwise known as Rivers of London will be published in translation by Silvia Tiles by Fanucci on the 19th January 20...

This year I started my last ditch attempt to move from my current BMI of YOU PORKY BASTARD (1) to a BMI of YOU FAT SLOB (2) by the end of ...

Every writer dreams of having a good cover for his baby novel and I was very lucky when Patrick Knowles combined a swirly tentacled font wi...

This list of the Top Selling UK Fiction Début Hardbacks of 2011 is reproduced by me for no ulterior motive beyond a keen desire to inform th...

I've never been comfortable with the term "chav". It wasn't in use when I was growing up and it was struck me as an incred...

Gollancz have confirmed to me that the UK release date of Whispers Under Ground will be the 21st June 2012. I know some of you are impatient...

Ninety percent of what is written about diets is total bollocks. If you want to lose weight then you've got to eat less and exercise mor...

I took advantage of the SF Gateway special offer over the Christmas period to stock up on some old favourites on my kindle. Amongst them wer...

I suspect that at least two of the three people read my blog will recognise this post as a continuation of grand excuse for procrastination ...

I was recently asked to give a seminar to some creative writing students on the subject of being an author. Fortunately this is one of the f...

Black Moon Over Soho I don't know why it's a black moon but the covers good and it's in German and that's the main thing. He...