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July 3, 2023
gone but not forgotten
I don’t often think about my readers.
That might sound harsh, but it’s a neutral truth. There are writers out there – I’ve met some; read the musings on craft of others – who are wholly readership focused. When they write, they hold in their heads a clear vision of their target reader, their market demographic if you will, and they craft with that demographic in mind. Often they’ll interact extensively with their readers on-line, maintain a constant flow of meta-data about their books, thei...
February 2, 2022
Zoom In

In what has been a rather quiet couple of years, convention-wise, it was great to cut loose last Sunday, courtesy of David W. Walters Jr and his ambitious TBR Con project. Here’s the Morally Gray Characters panel with yours truly and a plethora of other stars from the genre firmament – Enjoy!
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October 8, 2021
BARCELONA!!!

Well, like anyone would actually need a good excuse to go visit the place, I’ll be appearing there on Friday November 5th at the inaugural session of this rather promising looking festival
And the following day I’ll be signing books and other merchandise at the local street outlet of my fabulous Spanish publisher Gigamesh
See you there!
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June 30, 2021
Spin cycle
For those of you who really missed me on Twitter, I have finally managed to find another home for all those musings and shout-outs too brief to really justify an entire blog post.
You’ll get me over here on Spinster.xyz – in its own words, a woman-centric website created to provide a platform for feminist dialogue. In other words, a place where the gender critical stance I took that got me banned from Twitter is considered perfectly acceptable. No TRA loons need apply.
Got a nice mage...
June 23, 2021
Couple More Cards from the Nightmare Pack
So the very talented Lena Lenkevich has been at it again. Not content with bringing the Long Runners from Land Fit for Heroes to nightmarish life last year, more recently she uploaded this gorgeous vision of the Dark Court as they appear to Ringil near the end of The Dark Defiles:

I mean, just look at them! Did you ever see such a fractious, shifty bunch of deities in your life?
It’s not just that it’s a beautiful piece of art; it’s that Lena has somehow been inside my head and ca...
June 16, 2021
Out of Africa
Number Two in an occasional series – Bloody Amazing Women Say Bloody Vital Stuff – Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie hits it out of the park.
For those who don’t know, Adichie is one of the finest English language realist writers alive today. I liked and mentioned her last (2013) novel Americanah in a Read and Rec’d list a few years ago; previously, I’d been blown away by her short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), particularly one little gem called Jumping Monkey Hill, which is in...
June 12, 2021
Full Circle
So – a little over two years since the storm began, Maya Forstater has her day in court and is vindicated, and all those of us who support (a) women’s rights and (b) living in the real world are cheering from the sidelines. Pointing out that the Emperor has no clothes turns out not to be a hate crime after all.
It might seem Kafka-esque, verging on insane, that it took an appeal court to rule on this issue and set matters straight, but there is in fact some very real benefit in the ways thin...
March 20, 2021
Gone Machine
On approach, Wells looks like Settlement Era concept art in all its earnest ambition. The millenial Mars-dream made real.
It rises from a dusty undramatic plain, about fifty klicks off the southern lip of the Valles Marineris, all pressure-sealed domes and covered walkways in the classical mode. The vibe is antique, through and through. No surprise there, the core build is getting on for three hundred years old – put in to service the space elevator when human footsteps on Mars were sti...
February 19, 2021
Lloyds or The Gherkin – On the Pointlessness of prescription

I’m not much for trying to teach people the business of writing, still less trying to give them prescriptive/proscriptive lists on how to do it. There is so much variation in literature, everything from the brutal telegraphic fury of James Ellroy to the sensuous lyricism of James Lee Burke, and that’s just two straight white guys on adjacent shelves in the crime fiction corner, telling broadly similar kinds of tales. Same sex, same genre, same country and basic post-war period, they even ha...
February 11, 2021
Gotta Be Genetic…..
My nine year old got asked to write a story for English, using the alphabet in sequence to start each sentence. He did this

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