Nine Worlds – Part Three.(Seriously a Duology? Bah… good things come in threes.) Where am I? “YOUR IN A ROOM!” I am no longer at Nine Worlds, sadly. For me it was a little less shiny this year. (Did you over do it this year guys?) I decided to explore outside my usual workshop and […]
Back in the 80’s Marshall Cavendish published a collection of stories. No biggy right? Wrong. These stories were released once a fortnight with a cassette tape for you to listen and read-a-long with. Hidden within the magazine’s pages were tales from Oscar Wilde, poems from J. R. R. Tolkien and classics like Hansel and Gretel, […]
There are less than two weeks to go, and yes, you’re just a little bit excited. You have your ticket, (you do, right?) you’ve got your name down for those extra special limited attendance workshops. You’ve memorised the programme by heart, consumed the convention’s anti-harrassment policy, become addicted to the Twitter feed but…now what? The […]
As part of his Blog Tour, I’m honoured to have Alex Davis as a guest today. The man doesn’t ever seem to stop, when he’s not running his own creative writing workshops over in Derby, he’s organising what is now the most affordable, all day convention on the SFF calendar. If he isn’t knee deep […]
This past week NASA’s New Horizons completed a fly-past of Pluto. It’s taken the probe just under a decade to get there, even so it’s fastest space vehicle to date. With the fiction/movies/games out there to inspire the next generation of designers and engineers, this space speed record won’t last for long. “Are we […]