(I had a really bad day yesterday so if you’re expecting my usual cheerful banter, then you’re going to be disappointed. Those of you who recognize the reference in the title, and the image of the gentlemen below, will have some idea of the tone of the blog post. Here’s what he had to say. …
Starla Huchton is one of the hardest working people I know. She wrote, and coordinated the full cast podcast production of her first novel, The Dreamer’s Thread, in 2009. It went on to be a double-nominee and finalist for the 2010 Parsec Awards and, since then, she’s continued to build on the twin foundations of …
Talking to Starla Huchton about Science Fiction, Romance and Maven
There’s a particular subset of fiction that I really like; what happens after the world ends. It’s not quite post-apocalyptic fiction, no Mad Max desert punks or armies of gleaming metal robots trained to kill anything with a pulse. Instead, these are stories about normal people trying to do what they can in the …
Blue-3425 is going to die. He’s okay with it too, because he’s signed on to be a Holehead. The Holeheads are expendable troops fitted with psychic tumours that transmit everything they see back to Earth. In return for this brave action, and, of course, their deaths, any surviving members will receive a large payout. Holeheads …
A great man once said (After the ridiculous amount of adverts Channel 4 cram on the front of things) that friends are the family we get to choose. He was begging his landlady to forgive him for accidentally pretending he was dating his flatmate at the time. That particular moment didn’t go well. Fortunately, he …
If soup was a film production company, it would be Merchant Ivory. You know the sort of thing, beautiful spectacle, immaculate performances, really well blended vegetables and Helena Bonham Carter being aristocratic and mad whilst Linus Roache is a repressed upper-class aubergine struggling to come to terms with his homosexuality in post-war Morrisons. That got …
Anyone who tells you any form of writing is easy either has no idea what they’re talking about or is lying to you. There isn’t a genre, sub-genre or field on the planet that’s easy to work in, not one. Hell, even bad writing requires diligence and hard work. Every single genre is difficult, …
Writer’s Block: The Shambling Guide to New York by Mur Lafferty
Seaside towns are nothing but collections of endings. The land runs out into the beach which runs out into the sea and the towns are full of nets designed to catch the people who are washed downstream along with the river water. It sounds worse than it is, but that idea, of this being the …