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No Excuses: Write!
It’s all too easy to find excuses. No time, no energy. You’re thinking about too many other things – and even if you do write, your plotlines get scrabbled, and your characters go off at tangents. It’s...
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The Chapter of Doom
If you’re a writer, you’ll know the one. It’s the one that refuses to do what it’s told, that gets harder and harder, that you hit your head repeatedly against, wondering what will break first. It’s...
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On Finishing Ecko
Once upon a time, there was a pad of paper and an ink pen. There was half a paragraph describing the Banned. It was the winter of 90/91, and I was dating a biker – I guess somethings are inevitable....
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2013 – A Year of Crashing Plates
It’s been a ‘no idea where it’s gone’ year. In these posts, you’re supposed to write about wonderful things, epic and terrible things. But not this year – it was January, and then it was summer, and...
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Ecko Endgame Cover Art
Ecko Endgame Cover art is a very special thing. It’s the tipping point between a book being in your head, and the thing being real and breathing and there on the shelf. It’s seeing a concept or a...
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EasterCon Program – or, Books, Monsters and Popping my KaffleKlatsch Cherry
Just to be difficult, my schedule at EasterCon is going to differ from that listed by the program. As ever, you can find me nailed by my knees to the Forbidden Planet stall, safely secure behind our...
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Ecko, Deepdreaming
This is GORGEOUS! These are AMAZING. They’re so gloriously fucked up – and equally so perfectly appropriate to the core theme of the books – I just don’t have words. Only: how badly I’d love a...
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Nine Worlds
It’s always hard to write a review of a Con when you’re trading from behind a table piled creakily high with ALL THE BOOKS – and this one was sans dealers room, our usual partners in crime replaced by...
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Ecko Endgame Full Cover
When it’s good, it’s very very good… …and this is fucking AWESOME :)
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BristolCon
Well, fuck me ragged, it’s a miracle – I will be at a Con, and without those firmly hammered-in nails that attach me to the FP table. Yes, I will be at BristolCon on Saturday 26th, and will be giving a...
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BristolCon
After so many years of trading, being free to roam at BristolCon was a very odd feeling indeed. It was slightly nebulous, somehow, almost as if I’d missed something or there was something I should have...
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Of Battles and Book-Sniffing – Where I’ll Be at FantasyCon!
Saturday morning at FantasyCon, I’ll be the one belting off the train at high speed and racing straight into the Conference Theatre for the ‘Fighting The Good Fight’ panel – the one where we talk about...
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Buckeroo – 2015 in review
It’s been a hell of a year. Normally, I’d talk about work, and books, and finishing Ecko – but this year, it’s all kinda just been lost. I put my flat on the market in March, lost my Mother in April....
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