As of tomorrow, I’m on NanoJourno time. As I talked about earlier in the month, I don’t want to do long form fiction because, for me, fiction is a zero sum game at the moment. So instead, and because much like MC Frontalot I remain bound for the high road even though it looks …
There’s a glorious moment in The Shakespeare Code, a 10th Doctor Who episode where, in a very offhand way, it’s mentioned that Shakespeare has no problem with the company of men. David Tennant grins and says ’57 academics just PUNCHED the air.’ Tonight? It’s the editors’ turn. Lucasfilm has been bought by Disney for 4 …
I was always going to be an easy sell for Arrow, the new CW-produced TV series based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow. I was a comics retailer for seven years, I’m still a comics journalist in various capacities and I’ve written one or two in my time. Nothing large, nothing you’ll have …
And then I spent a week writing 12,000 words on a project I’m going to err on the side of caution and assume I can’t talk about yet, prior to writing another 12,000 to finish it off this week. How have you been? Blogbusters isn’t on the site yet this week but do go …
I love comics. I love them because, and often despite, of the fact that I worked as a comic retailer for seven years and still work as a comics journalist. In that time I’ve seen every side of the industry, from the boundless enthusiasm and talent of the small press to the very best and …
And then two months passed, we moved across the Atlantic to Nottingham, Marguerite started attending law school and I wrote these things. How have you been? Starting with Blogbusters,the last two months have seen us caper up and down the genre lines like a chilli-tailed rat…or…something. We’ve discussed who the best Nemesis relationship in …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPFGWVKXxm0&w=560&h=315] I just downloaded the new Rolling Stones single from itunes. Stop and look at that sentence for a moment. It’s an anachronism on the same level as those jokes about how the Natural History Museum has a fossilized digital watch in a T-Rex skeleton in the basement. The Rolling Stones, patient zero for …
Still Rolling, Still No Moss, Possibly A Little Sciatica-The Rolling Stones do ‘Doom and Gloom’
Three lines of visual information, a family man, a big city, horrific violence. Three colours; red, white and black. Three acts; The Sailor, Old Jack and Lost Dogs. The last is the most important, because it encompasses the first two and links to them in a way which drops the reader back out at the …
A few years ago I wrote a novel. I like it, quite a lot actually, because it’s exactly the sort of thing I would write if I wrote a novel. The protagonists are a pragmatic female detective, a peppery male journalist and a dutiful, if reluctant and put upon big guy. It’s set in York. …