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Progress on the WIP: #SciFi in the Making.

This weekend sees the annual science fiction and fantasy shindig in Hull. Fantasticon 2017 is on course to be the best yet. I’ll be there signing…

The Purple Bowtie, by Lisabeth Reynolds: #BookReview.

[A review is a personal opinion. No reviewer can represent the view of anyone else. The best we can provide is an honest reaction to any…

Looking for the Best Word? Tip #52

    Offering help for writers and language learners, this series of posts is a resource for all word lovers. This week’s words: Fabricate, Fairly, Desbundar,…

Progress on the WIP: #SciFi in the Making.

So, some small progress made: I’ve added a few notes from further research and ideas that occurred during the week, usually when in bed! At this…

Utopia for Realists, by Rutger Bregman, Reviewed.

This is a book I’d love everyone to read. Really. With its subtitle, ‘And How We Can Get There’, it offers hope for the future. Well…

Looking for the Best Word? Tip #51

    Offering help for writers and language learners, this series of posts is a resource for all word lovers. This week’s words: Euphemism, Asyndeton, 9…

Progress on the WIP: #SciFi in the Making.

An offer and a request in one: Many of you have followed the progress of War Over Dust over the months it’s been under construction. I’m…

Stuart Aken on Blood Red Dust and the double-edged sword of superlative science fiction

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The world’s full of easy reads, with a multitude added to the ranks each day. Stuart Aken refuses to…

A Night Shift, by Joshua Scribner: #BookReview.

This short piece of dark fantasy puts a different spin on a popular theme, and carries it through with some dark humour. It’s a compact story,…

The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe: #BookReview.

It’s dangerous to review a much-loved and respected classic; even more so for an author. So I face this review with some trepidation. The story is,…