Happy Equinox everyone. I meant to write an update in August, but I think I got intimidated by the sheer number of updates I have neglected to make on my website in all this time. I just finished reading 4000 weeks by Oliver Burkeman, so now I’m aware that my fear of confronting the projects […]
What do I have in common with Vic Reeves? Yes, the comedy and a love of surrealism (I got a first in my French surrealism module at Keele Uni*). But now we have both had an exhibition at Northampton Art Gallery and Museum. Jim Moir’s painting exhibition is called Romans, Daisies, Ones and Twos. It
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Hello, and welcome to my latest roundup of news! First of all, I have been working hard on a couple of books, soon to be released into the wild. My Best of British Science Fiction series from Newcon Press is going strong, and the latest instalment will be launched on 9th August. You can preorder
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I just did my show Donna Scott: Weird Sense of Tumour last night at Leicester Comedy Festival, presented by Jokes on Us Free Festival. Thanks to Alex Hylton for his sterling efforts at running THREE comedy venues at the festival in addition to being a full time pub landlord on top of also being an
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I’ve just updated my See My Stuff page with all my Leicester Comedy Festival appearances so far, but with less than 2 weeks to go before my own full show Weird Sense of Tumour, now is time for the Big Push ahead of the night. Another thing that’s just like a baby then! I’ve put
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January 1st 2022 – how the heck am I still alive? I don’t mean that in the angsty way I used to do as a fifteen-year-old proto-goth: “Ay me, I shall never outlive Pre-Raphaelite supermodel Lizzie Siddall…. I have foreseen…” No, I mean that recently things literally keep trying to do me in. Albeit slowly
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I am reliably informed that a number of books to which I have contributed or edited are part of the monstrous mass encroaching on the workspace of my publisher and pal, Ian Whates. Quite ridiculously, Ian is ignoring the sensible thing to do when you find you have too many books, which is to move
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First of all, apologies for interrupting your day with yet more awesome news, hot on the heels of No More Heroes being available to pre-order. But I have yet more book news. Yes, your eyes do not deceive you for the cover featured above is indeed the promised artwork by the very talented Alex Storer
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I’m so pleased to be able to let you all know that this beautiful book is now available to pre-order from the PS Publishing website, featuring my story “Siren Song”. No More Heroes is a fiction anthology inspired by the musical heroes we lost too soon in recent years, and my story is about the
It has been a horrible start to the year. My Dad, who was very frail, died of Covid in January. Of course, Dad didn’t used to be frail. He used to be fighting fit before suffering a traumatic brain injury at work a few years ago, after which he had multiple strokes. Then, Alzheimer’s started
