Gavin Scott's Blog, page 12
November 3, 2016
Entertaining Miss Sloane
I’ve just finished an exhilarating Q & A for BAFTA with the writer, director, producers and stars of the excellent political thriller Miss Sloan, at the AMC Century City in Los Angeles. My director hero John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) gave the movie a cracking pace and Jessica Chastain and Gugu Mbatha-Raw lit up the screen as a couple of stop-at-nothing Washington lobbyists.
May 9, 2016
The Dangers of Metaluna
During my visit to San Diego’s Mysterious Galaxy bookstore this weekend to promote The Age of Treachery I unwisely bought a model of Metaluna, the monster from the great 1950’s sci fi movie This Island Earth. When I brought him home, however, while my back was turned he not only attacked a San Francisco cable car, but did grievous bodily harm to some of the most beloved characters from fantasy and science fiction. What would have happened to these two poor oblivious kids from Autopia if I had not intervened, I dread to...
May 8, 2016
Mysterious Galaxy Event
Just had enormous fun with fellow authors helping celebrate the birthday of San Diego’s excellent crime, mystery, sci fi and fantasy bookstore, Mysterious Galaxy and being interviewed by Joe Hogan for his podcasts on Geekitude.com
May 2, 2016
An interview on My Bookish Ways
An interview with Gavin Scott, author of The Age of Treachery
April 27, 2016
Another Victory in the Battle for the Great Airport Park
Great news! Justice Aviation, the flight school that was fighting Santa Monica tooth and nail to keep its lead-fuelled planes flying over our houses from Santa Monica Airport has just agreed to get out! Bravo to our councillors and city staff Rick Cole and Nelson Hernandez for standing up for our safety. Now let’s get rid of the wretched private jets and get on with building our Great Park.
Wrestling with Ursula le Guin
I was recently asked to write an article about my adaptation of two of Ursula le Guin’s wonderful Earthsea fantasy novels for television: and this is my painful confession. http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2016...
April 25, 2016
More insights into 1946 from David Kynaston (Austerity Britain)
“Britain in 1945. A land of orderly cues, hat doffing men walking on the outside, seats given up to the elderly, no swearing in front of women and children, censored books, censored films, censored place, infinite repression of desires. Divorce for most an unthinkable social disgrace, marriage too often a lifetime sentence … Marriage is seldom companionable, with husbands and wives living in separate, self-contained spheres, the husband often not telling the wife how much she earned … Children in the street to act off by strangers, children in the...
April 20, 2016
Confessions of a Completist
Here’s a link to an article I wrote for the excellent Elizabeth White about book collecting.
A very gratifying review …
Just had a very pleasing review of The Age of Treachery on the fascinating Crime Fiction lover Website. Here’s the link if you’d like t check it out The Age of Treachery
