Unless you are a primary carer, work in retail, customer care, the emergency services, or NHS, the void between the 24th of December and the 2nd of January can be one long duvet day of binging on your favourite things. If not reading, most authors I know are spending time with family or friends and […]
Uh-huh…it’s that end of the year post. It’s in our nature to reflect and move forward, make a bucket of resolutions that we utterly fail to keep. I won’t be doing any of that. Instead a thank you to those people who have made this year work the way it has. There are a lot […]
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, […]
I’ve heard a lot of authors say that you never stop learning. 2014 turned out to be one heck of a hill for me. On the outside, nothing has happened. Yet, those who write (whatever you write) know that that’s possibly the best type of happening. I put this growth down to tea lack of […]
Nine Worlds happened this weekend, a convention for fans of anything ‘geek’. Games, comics, films, books and T.V. shows were all covered, spanning all age groups and geeky genres. Interesting and apropos academic panels merged well with the more traditional fan-based content. Panels and workshops covered making, creating, discussing, laughing, exploring and of course debating. […]