Welcome back to Open Mic Mondays! There’ll be a few of these in a chain, as I carve time out to update the blog regularly and first out of the gate is my friend Wabbit. A fellow former SFX blogger, she’s a relentlessly hard working, generous human, one of my martial role models and a …
Welcome to this week’s Open Mic Monday. Today, the spot belongs to Travis Legge. Travis is an indie filmmaker and RPG designer. He’s one of the most dedicated people I know and watching him shepherd Dry Spell through crowd funding and production has been genuinely inspiring. Here he is to talk about the movie.
Morning, welcome back to Open Mic Mondays. Over the next few weeks you’ll see a range of writers talking about subjects close to their heart here and it gives me immense pleasure to introduce JC Hutchins to get us kicked off. Hutch is one of the reasons I got into podcasting. He, the Variant Frequencies …
Morning everyone, how are you doing? The last couple of weeks have been demented, and I’m grabbing six minutes to put this together before I basically have to go out for the entire day. Full details inbound shortly, but for now, you need to know about Vulpes. Vulpes is the new imprint at Fox …
Welcome to Open Mic Mondays, and a late, but sincere and very appreciative thanks to my friend Bryce for pointing out the more…Cronenbergian connotations of this feature’s original title. This week’s column comes to us from a colleague and friend of mine. Laura is a fellow former SFX blogger and a tirelessly …
Open Mic Monday: The Problem with Being Human on BBC America
Welcome to Open Mic Mondays. Today’s guest is one of my oldest friends. Chris Brosnahan was born in Ireland, lives in London and recently won NaNoWriWee. This was a contest, designed to mirror NaNoWriMo but with one difference; the novel had to be written in a weekend. Hence the Wee. Chris’ entry, POV, not only …
Welcome to Open Mike Mondays. This week’s guest is Jared Axelrod. Jared could be described as a renaissance man but for the fact that if he’d been alive back then we'[d all be flying to work in personal gliders. He’s one of the most relentlessly creative polymaths I know. An author, an illustrator, …
Welcome to this week’s OMM. Jody Whitesides is one of the most hard working, creative musicians I know. It’s a pleasure to have him on the slot, to talk about his latest project. — Falling 180 Feet I’m known for my positive attitude. My constant looking forward and going for the next thing. …
Open Mic Mondays: I Fell 180ft And Survived Or How I Went Crowdfunding In 5 Easy Steps
Welcome to the Bank Holiday Open Mike Monday. This week, OMM features my friend Helen Armfield. Helen’s a journalist,writer, alla round genius and one of my fellow Million Word Challenge participants. She’s also the keeper of Doing Forty Things By Forty which is linked here and has a deep, abiding love for food which is …
Open Mic Mondays: Courgette and Chocolate Brownies by Helen Armfield
Welcome to Open Mike Mondays. This week, my guest is Nadine Holmes, known to many as MadNad and many more as the Mutherfudger. Nad is one of my cooking senseis, her boundless enthusiasm and willingness to try new things matched only by just how damn good they look (And taste). Plus, she invented worm sandwiches …