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”, […]
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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
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I’m very shortly off on my travels to Glasgow and I’m pretty excited! This is what I’ve got going on this coming long weekend: That’s quite the mix, isn’t it? Today I have a couple of errands to run, and then the rest of the day is prep, prep, prep. I am watching Luisa Omielan’s
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A busy time ahead as we finalise the layout for Best of British Science Fiction 2023 for Newcon Press and over at The Slab continue sifting through the enormous submissions pile for Laughs in Space. Artwork by fabulous Northampton artist and musician Paul Alex Condie has also been arranged. All of this goes on amidst
A crazy couple of weeks here in my Victorian shoemaker’s house in Northampton. We are beginning our much-anticipated restoration works, the savings have evaporated, and we have a bunch of stuff we need to do before we go to our next convention which is (checks notes) Friday. And it’s already Monday. Engage headless chicken mode!
Friday, 1st March turned out to be a rather smashing day all round. I was getting ready for work and thought I would just check social media and I noticed a link posted to the BSFA Awards, so I checked the link and… Wow, Best of British Science Fiction 2022 has been shortlisted for Best
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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 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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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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