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March 28, 2021
The Illusion Almanac
I’m a firm believer that less is more. However, today I’m going to stick my neck out and assert that more is more.
“More what?” I hear you cry.
“More website,” I reply.
My brand new website, to be precise: The Illusion Almanac.
Why build a new site? Well, for a long time, the website you’re currently looking at has been the home not only for my fiction projects and general writing news, but also for the journalistic work I do covering film and television – in particular visual ef...
March 23, 2021
Short Story Sale – Castellia
My short story Castellia has just been accepted for publication in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It’s my first piece of short fiction for a while, and my first appearance in the legendary magazine that’s been inspiring readers since 1949. I couldn’t be more thrilled!
Watch out for Castellia in F&SF later this year.
Ghostwriting Confidential
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I took on my first ghostwriting assignment in 2007, working with a book packager on a crime novel that was eventually published in 2008. Since then, I’ve ghostwritten over a dozen novels for both adults and younger readers. As I write this post, I’m almost exactly halfway through ghostwriting a new middle-grade fantasy trilogy, the first instalment of which is published this May.
Like many authors, I pursue ghostwriting in tandem with my own personal wri...
March 22, 2021
Cinefex 1980-2021
There was this kid who grew up on the south coast of England in the 1970s, devouring television shows like Thunderbirds and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Doctor Who and cutting his cinematic teeth on Jaws and Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, while at the same time building his collection of maybe a zillion or so plastic construction kits and drawing all kinds of crazy stuff out of his imagination, all of which was kind of a prelude to the 1980s when as a teenager he ga...
February 23, 2021
20 Years of Stone
The year 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the conclusion of one of my favourite fiction projects, the Stone trilogy.
This set of three fantasy novels – Stone & Sky, Stone & Sea, Stone & Sun – was published by Voyager books, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of HarperCollins, between 1999-2001. Through the course of the trilogy, I took my hero, Victorian explorer Jonah Lightfoot, and his Kansan companion Annie West on a wild adventure across the vertiginous face of a strange world ...
February 18, 2021
VIEW Conference 2021
If you’re interested in animation, visual effects, computer graphics, digital cinema, VR or gaming, then VIEW Conference is the place for you. Beginning with a rolling programme of free online PreVIEW events, VIEW 2021 culminates in October in a week-long conference featuring inspirational keynote speeches, illuminating panels and presentations, in-depth masterclasses, lectures, screenings, and much more.
I’m working with the VIEW Conference team to help spread the word about this year’s ...
VIEW 2021 – Pixar SparkShorts Directors Discuss Creativity, Storytelling and Representation
VIEW Conference is holding a live PreVIEW event focusing on Pixar’s SparkShorts programme. The free online session, which takes place on February 26, 2021 at 10:00 PST / 6:00pm UK / 19:00 CET, brings together the directors of five films from Pixar Animation Studios’ programme for a lively discussion about their work. Dan Sarto, editor of Animation World Network, moderates. The event is organized by VIEW Conference in partnership with OGR Torino and Pixar Animation Studios.
The first Spark...
January 22, 2021
VIEW 2021 – Baobab Studios, “Bombay Rose” and the 93rd Academy Awards
VIEW Conference just unveiled its latest round of PreVIEW events for 2021. Each online session is free to attend, and features conversation with a team of animation professionals as they debate the hottest topics and share insights about their latest projects.
“In the middle of January, we held our first PreVIEW session of 2021. We brought together the directors of Netflix’s first three animated shorts – Canvas, If Anything Happens I Love You and Cops and Robbers – and the results were ep...
The String City Mysteries – Now in Paperback
Hot on the heels of the Kindle edition, I’m delighted to announce The String City Mysteries is now available in paperback. Its pages are bulging with werewolves and titans, angels and zombies, murder, love and, above all, mystery. There’s never been a better time to explore the extraordinary world of String City in the company of an interdimensional detective with a nose for an unusual case … and a rather remarkable coat.
The String City Mysteries is a collection of seven novelettes first...
January 2, 2021
New Book – The String City Mysteries
What better time than New Year to launch a new book?
Okay, full disclosure, The String City Mysteries is not entirely new. It’s a collection of seven novelettes first published in Realms of Fantasy magazine, and later as individual ebooks by 40K Books. Now, for the first time, they’ve been assembled into a single volume.
The String City Mysteries is available now to download for Kindle from Amazon. Paperback coming soon!
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