Eleven months ago, we lost the awesome science-fiction writer Eric Brown. I have been proud to include several pieces by Eric and his regular co-author Keith Brooke over the years in my Best of British Science Fiction series for Newcon Press. Eric’s writing is very much like the man himself: there is a profound sense […]
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Last year I took part in the live recording of It Just So Happened at Buxton Fringe – the history podcast hosted by Richard Pulsford, a very clever chap who just so happens to be a former UK Pun Off champion. The aim of the episode is for panelists, usually comedians, to talk about events
This weekend I went to Huntingdon Library as they were staging a mini-convention – an offshoot of British Library Fantasy Exhibition. Huntingdon library is a smashing place, and I very much like the town of Huntingdon, famously the birthplace of Oliver Cromwell (we did see a cavalier striding down the street while we were there;
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ParSec #9 has been released today, so you can buy it immediately and read stories by M.R. Carey, Tim Lebbon, E.M. Faulds, and the legend himself, Michael Moorcock! Plus, an interview with yours truly. I just received PS Publishing’s newsletter in which my friend, the editor Ian Whates, has written an introduction to this issue
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I’m in ParSec next week talking about the launch of my new publishing company The Slab, the launch of our first book, Dark Horses: A Science-Fiction Anthology by Friends of the Arts Lab, and all things counterculture. I’ve been sent this cover to share, and that’s a pretty exciting list of story contributors on the
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This won’t be a long post – I’ve mostly got my editor hat on this week, so I’m a good way through my reading list for Best of British Science Fiction and keen to get a table of contents ready soon. That’s before embarking on the next reading pile for Laughs in Space, which I’m
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It’s like a round-up, but more generic. Many kinds of milestones have been achieved this year. Some more welcome than others. As a middle-aged childless woman who dotes on her nephews, I would love to say I’m embracing my Sank-Aunt years, but I’m afraid I have entered this new decade with an insistent sense of
I really feel like I am living a blessed existence at the moment. My new publishing business The Slab Press has been electrified into life and Northampton Arts Lab celebrated with a fantastic launch event on Saturday for Comic Zine, a horror zine, a Dream zine, and my first book – Dark Horses: A Science
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In a break from the norm of my hectic creative life, this weekend I went to the HRH Festival in Great Yarmouth with my husband and a few friends. We’ve had a smashing time, discovering lots of new music*. Being more of an autumn person than a lover of hot, sunny weather, I love visiting
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Oh Big Blue Meanies of the internet, you would have to go spoiling that meme about Zardoz and point out that the legendary fashion-faux-pas sci-fi classic starring Sean Connery was set in 2323, and not 2023. However, I will have you know this is very much the year for the Zardoz vibe, and I for
You’re Telling Me Budgie-Smugglers and Ray-Guns Aren’t In? …Yet? Read More »
