Gosh, it’s been a noisy few months. First there was the Digital Economy Bill debacle, swiftly followed by the Digital Economy Act debacle, then the General Election reared its ugly head, with the Paul Chambers Absurdity coming in at the end. All jolly exciting and extremely useful for boosting up Read more…
I’m moving swiftly towards the finale of my second novel, Of Rock And Earth. It’s considerably shorter than Evinden, but that’s by design – plus the current word count is a little deceptive as the first third of the book needs some serious bulking up once I start editing. Halfway Read more…
Two weekends have passed without any kind of 48 hour challenge involved, which is an immense relief. Although it was good fun and hugely rewarding, I certainly wouldn’t want to do more than one a year – and next time I don’t intend to shoot and edit, which meant that Read more…
You may remember that when I’m not ranting about the Digital Economy Bill, I like to spend my time writing. Late last year I finished the first draft of my first novel, Evinden, and this weekend I received a response from the first person to read the book in its Read more…
Just Cause 2 is out at the end of this month. I’ve put together a video preview based on the amusingly ridiculous demo. (more…)
Had a good day of writing Of Rock And Earth today. I’ve been struggling with mild writer’s block for a few weeks, ever since I launched into ‘act 3’ of the story, finding myself suddenly in unfamiliar territory without a map. Although I had a plot overview for this section Read more…
A writer I discovered at the SFX Weekender last month, Mark Charan Newton, writes a blog containing all sorts of useful information for writers. It’s well worth bookmarking if you’re into that kind of thing. Something else that emerged from the SFX Weekender was Newton’s idea (well, China Mieville’s idea, Read more…
Back to the word count subject prefixes for me, as I continue work on Of Rock And Earth, the novel that I began as something of an experiment for 2009’s NaNoWriMo. I successfully hit the 50,000 word limit by the end of November, which meant I’d achieved my first ever Read more…
I’ve begun work editing Arms Race, the steampunk period peace set during an alternative Crimean War directed by my friend Nigel Clegg. We shot it last summer out in the wilds of Norfolk. So far it’s being kept under wraps, so that we don’t spoil the nifty set, costumes and Read more…
2010 has somehow arrived without anybody really noticing: December itself whipped by, as did Christmas, and the next thing I knew I was at a New Year’s Eve party at which people barely acknowledged the passing of the midnight hour (it was nonetheless a superb party, aside from my awful Read more…
