Merry inbetweeny-mas!
Hey, how’s it going? I hope I find you suitably baked in your post-Christmas befuddlement. Schrödinger’s cat (Spoiler, Neo was alive, after all) See you later, 2023 2023 may have been all about AI and Covid recriminations, but we’re all about hum......
Wheel of Time & TV Review
Let’s talk Wheel of Time. How are you enjoying season 2? As you probably know, we have brought the After-Time podcast back (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/after-time), and it’s a thumbs up from the panel this time round. Much better than seaso......
Music festivals and summer shenanigans…
I’ve just got back from Glastonbury – the Daddy of music festivals. Boy! It almost killed me. We must have walked 20 miles a day at LEAST! Unfortunately, I pulled a calf muscle a week before going – I could hardly walk – an old football injury recurren......
Do I even speak English?
I’m making the final grammar pass on my draft of AI Defend Us, my techno thriller set in a dark, near future London where tech is, shall we say, a little problematic. Set against a gritty backdrop of a London crime world, it’s (hopefully) a fast-paced ......
The March of A.I.
As I write, England is in the grip of a Narnia-esque freeze. Sussex is white, icy and a hideously cold -6c at night. Luckily, my fiction is fizzingly hot inside my head at the moment. I’m deep into the guts of my upcoming techno thriller, AI Defend Us.......
AI Imaginings
As I write this, it’s June 2022 and I’m watching on with envy as Glastonbury takes place – the ultimate music festival. Part of me is glad my legs don’t have to walk ten miles a day, it’s a whole lot more comfortable watching from the sofa, and t......
Writing update and what I’ve been watching
A darkness has descended over Europe. Prayers and thoughts are with Ukraine. In my writing news, I have just finished the first draft of book 3 in the Rankers series (sequels to Deliverance at Van Demon’s Deep), that’s now off to my amazing beta reader......
The state of the Feyrlands – Part 3: Clothes
In this series, I take you on a whistle-stop tour around the Feyrlands, looking at life and civilisation, seeing how the peoples of the world live, and how society looks compared to what we are familiar with. Today, we’re taking a look at what people w......
The state of the Feyrlands – Part 2: Weapons
In this series, I take you on a whistle-stop tour around the Feyrlands, looking at life and civilisation, seeing how the peoples of the world live, and how society looks compared to what we are familiar with. This time, we’re looking at one of my favou......
The state of the Feyrlands – Part 1: Time
In this series, I’ll be taking you on a whistle-stop tour around the Feyrlands, looking at life and civilisation, seeing how the peoples of the world live, and how society looks compared to what we are familiar with. In this first post, we’ll take a lo......