Welcome to the August #facility23 challenge thread. Every week day, and every month we’re on a different asteroid in The Temenos Ark, a vast, out of control FTL bubble dragging ships, asteroids and…other…things out of the solar syste,m as it flees a war with a piece of sentient alien music. What happened after that is the …
After three years we both finally got Covid and it wiped out half the month and slowed down the other. We’re both mostly back now and I made the best of it for the #facility23 challenge. There’s no major arc plot this month, because I was ill, but there’s some fun stuff and it helped to …
Good time zone, nominators! Thanks for dropping in. Below you’ll find details of my award-eligible work from 2022. I’ve picked half a dozen examples for each publication, and provided an overview of their contents. Like most of the work I do, the majority of these selections are available for free where linked. I hope you …
I love the various Archive series Obverse Books do. Deep critical dives into individual episodes of genre TV they’re the exact sort of thing I love to read and to do myself. I’ve had the pleasure of writing about the Star Trek: Discovery ‘Through the Valley of Shadows’ for Obverse as well as the Doctor …
I’m doing the #facility23 challenge every week day, and every month we’re on a different asteroid in The Temenos Ark, a vast, cobbled together spaceship that fled the solar system when an alien piece of music swept through intent on taking over every sentient being. What happened next is the core of After the War, …
The Secret of St Kilda is one of my favourite horror podcasts and one of my favourite jobs! I play the Narrator and it’s always a pleasure to spend some time with the incredibly talented Kilda folks. Earlier this week, two-fisted editor and all-around badass Mick got in contact and asked me to record some …
Something a little different today. My original plan was to use an extra Story Engine draw for #horror23 and these are the cards I got. I took these and wrapped them around the Corn Exchange in Leeds, which is an irrationally beautiful building I worked in for a while. A friend once described it as …
This essay was originally published in the 16th December 2023 issue of The Full Lid Months ago, I wrote two lines that would start and end an essay. The first was this: Help isn’t coming. The original piece was born of the frustration Jenga required of working in a creative field in 2022. Pushing against …
I’ve been having great fun with Facility23 as a daily writing challenge and as we start to head to the end of the first month, now’s a good time to give you an idea of the setting. I’m writing it for After the War, the game my buddy Jason Pitre and co-created because it’s a …
Look at them, LOOK AT THEM! That poster is like a singularity of Blue Steel and legendary careers. 1990’s Flatliners is directed by Joel Schumacher, with cinematography from Jan De Bont, foe of all buses. Peter Filardi wrote it who would also write the equally epochal The Craft and the cast are, as you can …