Hello! Welcome to my new website courtesy of the amazing Clockpunk Studios. Isn’t it cool?! Special thanks to Marguerite, for everything, as usual, and also the amazing Andrew Jack for putting together my VA demo reels and Jeremy Carter for the excellent headshot you see adorning the Featured Image box. So you may have noticed …
The incomparable Matt Wallace‘s triumphant YouTube community building writer series returns! Go, watch, be inspired and discover YouTube can be used as a force for good!
Ciudad Rencor has another name; Grudge City. Not quite in the USA, not quite in Mexico, Grudge City is an entire community and economy based around wrestling and lucha libre. For generations, fans and wrestlers have flocked to the city. Movies have been made there, careers begun and ended and two dynasties have defined decades …
There’s a term used in Mixed Martial Arts; sprawl. Sprawling is what happens when someone tries to take you off your feet and you avoid it. You throw your feet back, spread your legs and they shoot under you so their back is under your chest. Do it right and you’ve stopped their attack. Do …
Review: Suiciders by Lee Bermejo, Matt Hollingsworth and Jared K. Fletcher
It’s brilliant. A funny, inventive, dark and unique take on urban fantasy that earns its spot on the shelves and absolutely deserves a spot on yours. UF is a genre regularly pilloried for being cookie cutter. It isn’t, and Envy of Angels not only embodies that proves it. You will not, under any circumstances, find …
I read a lot of e-books because it’s an inherently versatile format that encourages experimentation. Also because a lot of e-books tend to skew short and I’m interested in those forms, learning how they work and doing them myself. Plus books are GREAT and I love reading. So, here’s what’s going to happen. Every now …
So, Amazon are in the middle of changing their review policy. The details are here and here. As are all the Terminator jokes you might expect. Some of what they’re talking about is both good and slightly disturbing; surely ‘You bought the product you’re reviewing’ is the minimum height requirement for being able to review it, …
A little while ago, Tor announced their new line of novellas. The idea is, frankly, brilliant; a simultaneous e-book, print on demand and audiobook release of a flotilla of new stories from a refreshingly diverse collection of new faces and veterans. Over the course of the last week, they’ve started dropping cover reveals for the …
I read, for me, an awful lot of books this year. By the time the year’s done it’ll be somewhere around 40. I’m pleased with that, especially as I’ve hit a good balance between reading for work and reading for fun. I could, as always, broaden my horizons some but everyone always can and this …
The Slingers series, by my friend Matt Wallace, has been a highlight of the year for me. I’ve talked about it, at length, for months now and the reason for that’s really simple; it’s brilliant. No one else would have dared to combine a unique narrative voice with every dystopian SF death sport archetype …