Failing Better
The fourth part of the Antonan Chronicles – and the last part of the first book – is now available on Amazon for just $2.99. Like the first three parts, there are plenty of swordfights, skycars, and romance. And a revelation about one of the recurring villains… I set out to write a Planetary Romance […]
For Halloween this year I’ve reduced the price of the Kindle version of Into The Dark, my collection of short fiction, to just 99¢. Seven short stories of Science Fiction and Horror collected together for the first time, including tales where… And you can get all of these for less than a dollar until All […]
As you might have noticed, I’ve had a bit of a clearout. 🙂 Over the long, long years the site had accumulated a lot of posts which, quite frankly, weren’t doing any useful business any more. You don’t really need to know which panels I’m going to be appearing at for an SF convention next […]
I said goodbye to my Nanna this evening. For a significant part of the evening she thought I was called Bill, but that’s neither here nor there. Bill, I told her, was a perfectly good name, and would be just fine for tonight. Mostly, though, we just sat companionably watching the Christmas television. She was […]
originally posted 10 May 2004 — I generally eat at table. Apparently that’s quite unusual these days. I was raised to have dinner with the family. We would sit down and eat together at the end of the day, and talk about things. My day at school, mum’s day at work, the state of the […]
So, there’s this TV show, right? About a character called Doctor Who. You can tell it’s about a character called “Doctor Who” because the show is called “Doctor Who” and in the credits for the first eighteen years or so, the character is called “Doctor Who”. (Or sometimes Dr. Who. But I think we can […]
At least, not in the way that we understand the word. During my research for Oliver Twist, I came across something that gave me pause. To wit, that Nancy is often referred to in reviews and literary criticism as being a prostitute. Thing is, though, I read the book several times. And I was buggered […]
One of those old blog-games that used to go around back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. List six unimportant things about yourself. Thing The First In my early twenties I contracted Bell’s Palsy. One of the nerves in my neck became inflamed, swelling and trapping the other, which resulted in complete paralysis of half of […]
As dreaming’s been coming up a lot recently in blogs I read, I thought it might be a good idea to teach you all how to lucid dream. Lucid dreaming is when you know that you’re dreaming, and can control the dream. I seem to recall reading a few years back that the most popular […]