NOTE: This interview was originally published back in September. I’ve bumped it up the schedule here to sit next to the review of Witches of Lychford. The Year of the Novella is officially in full swing. The form has been home to some of the best writing in genre for a while now, with both …
My version of Lychford was called Ballabeg, on the Isle of Man, It’s a pair of housing developments and a handful of cottages scattered around a church, a shop or two and a primary school. I was part of the primary school for a while, and did all the things you do when you grow …
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 …
(Still from the excellent These Glory Days) Here are the answers to the parade I posted over the weekend. This post is utterly crammed with links so if you don’t recognize a character click on their name, or if a book looks interesting click on the title for an Amazon page. -Jack is of course, …
The Warren Ellis run on Stormwatch was the first long term run on a series that I genuinely connected with. The idea of a UN-controlled superhuman crisis intervention team was always an attractive one but under Ellis the book became something tighter, more mature than it had been before. Ellis wrote Stormwatch officers as humans, …