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November 8, 2019
The Trouble With Twitter
In case anyone’s found their way here from my Twitter feed, and wonders why there’s been some radio silence at that end, the answer is simple – I’ve had my account suspended, have appealed and am waiting on re-instatement. I have no idea how long the appeal process habitually takes, or indeed how long this one will last. In the event that the appeal is rejected, who knows, it may last forever, since I have no intention of backing down from what was a thoroughly fit-for-purpose piece of vitrio...
January 1, 2019
Receding Tide
Quick update on the state of the Great Clearance Sale – we are down to a very limited amount of stock remaining, and I can actually see most of my office floor now, so I’ll be wrapping the sale up shortly. Last chance to buy, if anyone missed the fireworks earlier.
Gone –
All my SF titles, apart from some last few US paperback editions of Altered Carbon with the Netflix tie-in cover.
Remaining –
Decent numbers of The Steel Remains, The Cold Commands and The Dark Defiles, in a variety of dif...
November 19, 2018
Boxed In, Selling Out

Right then – as previously mentioned on my Twitter feed (You don’t do Twitter? How do you live???), it’s That Time again.
Which is to say it’s the time when I once again run out of feasible storage for my author copies and have to send them on to owners who can care for them better than I – i.e. put them on a shelf in a heated room with air and light, instead of imprisoning them in brutal tightly packed cardboard cells in a cold and unlovely concrete floored outbuilding without possibility...
October 6, 2018
Thin Air, Deep Dive
This is an interview I did for Professor Sara Martin Alegre from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona a couple of months back, due to be published later this year in the spec-fic critical journal Helice. Sara has been a constant promoter of my work in academic circles for some years now, and her questions always involve something of a deep dive; they force me to think as hard about my work as I ever have at any previous point, including during its conception. That’s a sobering but also ver...
January 11, 2018
Fragments of a Jet-lagged Dream
Eight hours of jet-lag will do strange and spectral things to you – it’s not enough to wipe you out, but it haunts you just the same. You’ll find yourself, for example, wandering amidst late afternoon crowds but feeling like a man adrift in a city full of ghosts. Or perhaps, judging by the general sense of disconnect in your head, you’re the ghost around here and everyone else is just getting on with their lives. In either case, you don’t quite trust this bright winter sky overhead or the bus...
November 14, 2016
All Philosophical n Shit
As if being mobbed with affection and accolades at Eurocon last week wasn’t enough, my ego received another unhealthy boost when the nice people at The Institute of Art and Ideas asked me to provide a link to this video of me being a malcontent smartarse. (Not to mention a Far Cry – Primal fan.) Apparently it’s been very popular……..
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August 10, 2016
Read and Recommended
A Brief History of Seven Killings – Marlon James
Bought as a gift to my wife – who was a big fan of James’ The Book of Night Women – then snaffled from her when I had to go away on a trip, this ends up being one of my favourite books of recent years. The first handful of pages stake out the territory in no uncertain terms – brutal, lyrical, fantastical and utterly fresh. Oddly enough, my first point of comparison was the Australian thriller Two Hands, because it has the same juxtaposition...
April 5, 2016
Gratuities at your Discretion
If there’s one enduring and consistent criticism of my work that stands above all others, it is the complaint that I write gratuitous sex scenes. (A long way behind that comes the occasional whinge about gratuitous violence too, but really, it’s the sex that seems to be upsetting people).
My response to this over the last decade and a half as a published author has been complicated and evolutionary in nature. Right back at the beginning, so near as I can now recall, I think I felt a tiny bi...
April 4, 2016
Gratuitous Human Error
Brief apologies to those of you who picked up last week’s post on Gratuitousness in Fiction. Due to some weird glitch – in me, not the site software – what you glimpsed there was a very messy Work in Progress that shouldn’t have seen the light of day for another week or so. (For those of you who made it through the whole thing, I’m guessing the chopped up paragraphs and sentence stumps left lying randomly around towards the end probably gave the game away.) Anyway, rest assured the whole t...
February 20, 2016
Pininit
Given the quicksand nature of Twitter, thought I’d better post something here as well. Ahem –
On Saturday March 5th – nail that date in your diaries – I will be speaking at the 2016 Durham Sci-Fi and Fantasy lit-Fest. Wanting a book signed? Anything you’ve always wanted to ask me? Bitter complaint to make about the ending of The Dark Defiles? Now’s your chance!
See you there!
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