Archive for October, 2009
Scrooge screviews
Saturday, October 31st, 2009What am I up to? Well, since you ask (and so politely, too) I'm going through another revision of New Model Army, this one occasioned by the characteristically insightful, incisive comments of my editor, Simon Spanton. A good editor is is more precious than jewels and his value is far above rubies or pearls: and [...]
New Model Army cover art
Monday, October 19th, 2009This just in. Very cool, in an (appropriately, as it happens) stylish, neo-Mod quasi-fascistic sense.
Dickensian Zombies stagger into shops
Thursday, October 15th, 2009I Am Scrooge is now available for purchase in shops that sell books. Buy a copy, or I'll eat your brains. I will do it, personally.
OUP Book Blog
Monday, October 5th, 2009Another contribution to another blog: follow this link to a piece I wrote for the OUP Blog, on Adam Foulds' Quickening Maze and Tennyson. My friend Doug Cowie knows Foulds a little bit, and says he's the nicest man imaginable. He's certainly a very gifted writer. On reflection I now consider this punkadiddle review of [...]
