Goodbye 2025. You sounded so futuristic. Still not getting over the “Minnellium”, and even harder to believe they made brown the new black again. Goodbye PANTONE 17-1230. Hello again Dulux Shades of White (Cloud Dancer, Phlegm, whatever) as we go from 90s nostalgia to 80s. Ah, the great music, the mass unemployment, the threat of […]
What Donna Did Next… Read More »
Before I get round to doing my round-up of 2025 (which is basically the modern era’s Round Robin), I thought I would wave my hands over a crystal tumbler in the hope of making some Kraken appear, but also as a half-arsed homage to Mystic Meg and to make some predictions about the year to
Witterer’s Armagnac 2026 Read More »
Over on the NewCon Press site, please find details of how to submit stories for Best of British Science Fiction 2025 Here’s the cover – sans writer names. For now…
Seeking submissions – Best of British Science Fiction 2025 Read More »
I’m like an emotional washing machine as Easter weekend approaches. This will be my first ever trip to Ireland. I had meant to go to Dublin in 2019, but instead I was in hospital, recovering from major surgery on the day that my book Best of British Science Fiction 2018 was launched without me. Six
Belfast Approaching… Read More »
This weekend I have lined up loads of work to be getting on with, and because I’m an idiot I’m doing it with a bit of a sore eye, after I managed to slingshot the spider brooch on my beret into my eye last night just before doing my new character, wine expert “Sam Elier”,
It’s Family, Baby! Read More »
We’re a month and a half into the new year and my feet have barely touched the ground. Firstly, I’ve been working hard on putting together The Slab’s next anthology: Vivid Worlds. This is going to be a solar punk anthology. If you don’t know what solar punk is, it is science fiction about some
Peacocks and Popularity Read More »
I’ve been thinking a lot about binning most social media platforms given my own seeming addiction to them, and also recent news stories. But then I get cold feet about the idea. Would it be cutting off my nose to spite my face rather than the tech billionaires? I’m the sort of person who overthinks
My Social Media Dilemma Read More »
Goodreads has decided the year has finished, even though I’ve got a BFS book club book still on the go, and a definite plan to chill and read solely for pleasure like the Norwegians do on Christmas Eve. Never mind, they’ve decided I’m done and have sent me some pretty graphics. Yes, I suppose I
Goodreads, Do You Mind? There Are Still 2 Weeks Left to Read! Read More »
It’s December! I’ve already done one Christmas party, and one Christmas Chocolate Wreath Workshop (at the fabulous Cocoa Amore in Leicester). My Secret Santa gift is bought, and I am looking at the rest of my Christmas budget and thanking the stars I have an empty diary after New Year’s Day until Sci-Fi Weekender next
It’s the Most Structural Time of the Year… Read More »
Edge-lit was fantastic! Out of the two of us, only Neil really got to see any panels, but I ran a flash fiction workshop, which was well attended, and I hope really useful to participants. The only other thing I got to see was the raffle, towards which The Slab Press donated a little prize
My Fantasycon Schedule & Other Cons Read More »
