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May 20, 2015
Technology – my love/hate relationship with it
The inspiration for this blog comes from the fact that I’m going on holiday for a week and as a regular blogger I will be releasing, promoting and tracking my blog while I’m away (hopefully). I have done this in the past using a tablet, but it’s not ideal. I don’t want to lug my … Continue Reading →
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May 13, 2015
Photography is a writer’s friend – part 2)
Last week in part 1) I wrote about how the taking of photographs could benefit the writer. How the act of composing the picture, seeing what is actually there can relate to writing. How the ordinary if it is viewed from a different angle can seem new and interesting, much the same as in writing. … Continue Reading →
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May 6, 2015
Photography is a writer’s friend – part 1)
Now I’ve always been interested in photography. I wouldn’t use the word passionate because there have always been other interests that have taken priority. But, photography is something that fits in so well with other interests, especially if those take place in the great outdoors. I have even dabbled in developing my own black and … Continue Reading →
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April 29, 2015
Politics, the future and science fiction
In the UK right now we are in the middle of election fever, or I guess for most of us election overload, to the point where you feel like shouting, please can we just vote and get it over! Which I know is the wrong attitude. After all whether the party we vote for or … Continue Reading →
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April 22, 2015
An author blog – what it can and can’t do for you, part 2)
In last weeks’ blog I mused on some of the things of the things that having an author blog has and hasn’t done for me. It has improved me as a writer, but it hasn’t sold heaps more books. As I said people go to your blog to read (hopefully) your blog not to look for … Continue Reading →
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April 14, 2015
An author blog – what it can and can’t do for you, part 1.
I’ve been blogging now for close to two years. I publish my author blog every week on a Wednesday without fail (he says, fingers crossed) and have published over 100 posts. Even when I go on holiday I set up blogs in advance. I started because, when I knew that I would be self-publishing my books, … Continue Reading →
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April 8, 2015
Robots – will they make us lazy?
I suppose I could rephrase this with ‘robots (machines) are making us lazy.’ Machines have and are increasingly ensuring that, in the west at least, fewer and fewer of us have jobs/lives that entail hard, or even moderately hard manual labour. Now I’m not suggesting that’s a bad thing, but it is, at least is … Continue Reading →
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April 1, 2015
Why we need space exploration
I know I’ve touched on this subject before and as a science fiction writer you might say I have a vested interest in extoling the view that, yes, the human race needs space exploration. Now the past year has been a great one for those who believe in space exploration with Rosetta, new interest in … Continue Reading →
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March 25, 2015
Go on – read some fantasy
Last week I implored people to put aside prejudices of ‘genre fiction’ and read some science fiction. This week I’m going to do the same for the cause of fantasy. I suppose as a scientist and writer and reader of science fiction I tend to define sci-fi as representing worlds and futures that, however bizarre, … Continue Reading →
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March 18, 2015
Go on – read some science fiction
OK, I know, I would say this, I’m a science fiction writer, and yes I hope at some point you might read mine. However, there is a whole world (actually many worlds) of excellent science fiction out there that can take you to places that your own imagination hasn’t even thought of. I don’t understand … Continue Reading →
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