You know how chocolate bark looks massively impressive? That thick, burly, clenched feel only melted and re tempered chocolate has? The satisfying SNAP it makes when you break a piece off? The sense that each piece of topping has been carefully placed to ensure its an artisanal delight, something which people will look at for …
I’m a sucker for this time of year because your perception of time alters, the festive three day period sitting in a time zone all by itself. I’m writing this on a Friday and it feels like a Wednesday, because Greenwich Christmas Time has landed this week and as it always does, has thrown me …
Okay there was clearly sleeping and eating and Christmas, and visiting my parents (Which was lovely) and having a cold (Which was less lovely) but NONE.THE.LESS. this is what I did in December and the people I did it for. -Blogbusters only made one appearance this month, but it was a doozy, looking at …
So I wrote a book. And Fox Spirit have published it and it’s available now. A book. A whole entire book. I’m really, really happy with it and on Friday we had the official launch party. A small group of friends came round, a huge amount of chilli was prepared and The Pseudopod Tapes was …
I wrote a book this year. Want to see the cover? COURSE you do! Isn’t that lovely? I am a sucker for old school microphones and the tentacle wrapping around it is just beautiful. That’s the work of S.L. Johnson, cover artist and genius. See the little Fox head on the mike? That’s …
I’ve driven past LA twice, once in each direction. Even from a distance, and at speed, it’s a city which feels unstable; millions of stories balanced on top of one another and secured by nothing but gravity and shared belief. It’s the only place in America more fictional than New York, both cities home …
(All names and titles are clickable) Let’s talk about cowboys. Scott Roche, a good friend of mine and a great author, loves cowboys. He also loves Samurai and Scott’s spent some time recently going over the similarities they both have, and, being a particularly great author, has done so in fictional form. However, as is …
(Image from Helen Woodall: Freelance Editing) The word counts have been added up and checked. I wrote 135, 703 words in November.