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Making Inish Carraig’s trailer

One of my daughter’s friend, Gaigai Xie, is a talented up and coming film maker, and we met last year to talk about her making a book trailer for Inish Carraig. I was thinking of something quite static, as many trailers are, but Gaigai had bigger plans and decided to make a live action film […]

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Convention season!

This time, a mere two weeks ago (it feels like about a year) I was having a minor hyperventilation about going to Dublin, for Worldcon, coming back to Belfast, for Titancon, and balancing the many, many things to do and people to meet that all of this would entail. Now, I’m at the other end […]

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An Income of One’s Own

Gosh, I have a lot of writing friends having it tough at the moment. It’s heartbreaking, because these are good writers, some of them are award winning, published (Big 6 even, for some), well regarded with fan bases. But this gig still doesn’t pay them enough to have time to write the amount they’d need […]

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On Emotional Depth

I know, I know, I’ve had nothing out for so long, it must seem like I’m not writing anymore. I am. But, here’s the thing… nothing is ready yet to come out. And part of that is to do with emotional depth, the thing I drive all my books with. I’ve two books on the […]

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On identity and writing sanity

A few months ago my manuscript was taken on a full request by a Very Big Agent. I was delighted. Then it got rejected, as these things do. Nothing wrong, just not for them. This week, one of my writing mates was signed by that agent and I’m even more delighted for them. I wish […]

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On not box-ticking

My new Work in progress is coming along swimmingly. (Yes, yes, I know I haven’t brought anything out for ages, but I am still writing and, indeed, have a novel ready for the meaty, deep, niggly edits that come only after stewing time). So swimmingly that I wrote a synopsis and blurb for it this […]

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On Identity

I’m not blogging as much as I used to. I think I used my blog to work things out and I’m feeling more ‘worked out’ than previously, in terms of writing. One thing, though, that is rumbling on is the question of my writing identity. This is a big year for Irish Science fiction and […]

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Sir Edric’s Guide to Christmas

Sir Edric’s Guide to Christmas (as dictated to Dog) Unfortunately, Corkwell seems to like a peculiar foreign religious event called Christmas. This apparently means I have to like it too. So, I did some research (well, I supervised some of my servants as they did research) to understand this strange day, and offer this advice […]

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On being thankful

Yesterday, I got a very lovely, very unexpected early Christmas present, with the inclusion on this list https://www.theguardian.com/books/201... I’ve read Jack Fennell’s recent anthology, A Brilliant Void, which gathered a ream of Irish (of all varieties) speculative writing. I thought, on picking it up, I’d read the same stuff I’ve read before and enjoyed. Instead, […]

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The Places that inspire me

This week I had an interesting conversation with a friend, about creating a map of Alternative-Northern-Ireland, capturing the places I’ve used in my spec stories. Then, yesterday, I brought out my first collection of short fiction, and it surprised me to see how many I’d set in places I’ve been, or know. In a novel, […]

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