Blair Smith
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BSFA Awards: Best Short Story Nomination for ‘The Honey Trap’
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I’m delighted to announce that one of my stories has made the shortlist for this year’s British Science Fiction Association Awards. ‘The Honey Trap’, from NewCon Press anthology La Femme, has been…
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New Photos: Mark Lanegan on Drowned In Sound
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Drowned in Sound have uploaded some of the photos I took of Mark Lanegan at the Riverside in Newcastle recently. There’s also a couple of shots in there I took of the…
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New Story: Good Boy
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After a slight delay, the January issue of Far Horizons is available online now. Amongst this month’s jam-packed issue of eclectic offerings, they’ve given a home to ‘Good Boy’, a new piece…
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2014: Overture
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So that was 2014, almost. Very nearly all of it, though I can’t help but feeling that there’s still something lingering behind the curtain, waiting for us to declare our said-and-dones, so…
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Thrash Hits Top Tens and My Favourite Musical Finds of 2014
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So. Things have been happening, and it’s the end of the year, and I should really write a blog. Really. Write. A Blog. See, it’s not that I don’t want to, but…
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DiS In Photos: Mastodon & Thrash Hits reviews: Mike Patton
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This week, a couple of new music things have appeared online. Firstly, my shots from Mastodon‘s thunderous pit stop in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne last week are up now on Drowned In Sound‘s In Photos…
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Bits & Bobs: New Story, New Photos, New Reviews, New Blogs and New Bols
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Back at the end of September, I drafted a Bits & Bobs post, due to go up the following week. I finished it all off, save leaving room for adding photos… and…
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Guest Blog: Jacey Bedford on the Parallels between Writing and Singing
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This website brings together two sides of my life that I love – music and fiction. Another writer with her feet in both worlds is Jacey Bedford, novelist and singer with folk…
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Fantasycon 2014: Three Days Running Up and Down Corridors
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And finally to the last convention report of the year – a different perspective, this time, from 2014’s Fantasycon. Being based in the North East, attending genre cons often means a minimum…
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Worldcon: Loncon 3 Debrief
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So to the inevitable con dissection post; a bit of a late one, I’m afraid. Coming straight out of Worldcon into a ten day bout of horrendous Con Flu (and the innevitable…