Noise and Sparks
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How Writers Write, and When Runners Run
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Tony Ballentyne’s blog series How Writers Write is exactly that. Once a month, he’s interviewed folk like Keith Brooke and Neil Williamson and they’ve duly answered – on where they write,…
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FridaySunday: The Lake Poets, Brilliant Mind and Coquin Migale at the Mind All-Dayer—
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I’ve got a lot of respect for the work of mental health charity Mind, particularly within the North-East of England. However, I have to confess that’s not the only reason the recent…
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BSFA Awards: The Honey Trap wins Best Short Fiction – Updated
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Well. That was a bit unexpected, wasn’t it? As I start to write this, it’s nearly midnight on Tuesday evening. I finally got home from Eastercon late last night. I’ve spent…
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Eastercon 2015: Dysprosium – Schedule
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Looks like the updated programme book for next weekend’s Dysprosium con (the 2015 Eastercon) is now online. Here’s what I’ll be up to: This year, NewCon Press (who published ‘The Honey…
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Photo Friday: Nadine Shah and Kingsley Chapman
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The glorious Nadine Shah recently debuted ‘Nothing Else To Do’, a brand new track from her new album Fast Food (out on 6th April) on THIS EPISODE of the Mary Anne Hobbs…
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New Photos: Richard Dawson at the Star and Shadow
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Some rather more sedate news this time. I popped along to catch Richard Dawson‘s darkly brilliant hometown show the other week, shooting for Drowned in Sound. With support from Vibracathedral Orchestra, and…
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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…