Category Archive: Chitchat
Twenty ten
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010What's coming? A couple of things, since you ask. New Model Army is published on the 10th of April. I'd say it is the best thing I have ever written, and by quite a wide margin too. That may, of course, not be saying very much; but it's a big deal [...]
Guardian Book Blog
Friday, September 25th, 2009And by way of following up the previous post, here's something I wrote for the Guardian Book Blog on that very subject. Let the record show: the final portion of the last sentence of the first paragraph read, when I submitted it: '...my reaction was compounded of one part vainglorious ego-puff, one part genuine [...]
September
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009Back from holiday, now, and ready for the new month. I have grown a beard. It makes me look older than Christopher Lee, but I quite like it nonetheless. More news soon.
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Thursday, June 18th, 2009I suppose it's fair to say that Denis Bayle is less well-known as a science fiction writer than he ought to be. Over at Futurismic, I've reviewed a fictionalised version of Bayle's biography: supposedly written by 'Thomas Hidgekin', who I'm not sure is a real-life figure. My review of this problematic title is [...]
Things
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009Sometimes things don't go so well. Yesterday my bike was stolen (the sort of thing that happened all the time when I lived in London, but which is something of a shock after six hitherto biketheft-free years of living in Staines). Today it seems that my car has died: unsurprisingly, since it's a [...]
December Commences
Monday, December 1st, 2008I've been busy, and hence elusive, here, but I have been neither idle nor unproductive. I've done a lot of University work, a certain amount of reviewing, and some academic writing for different projects. More to the point I have been plugging away at a Fantasy novel, or more precisely at a short [...]
Podcast, reviews, things
Saturday, October 18th, 2008More news on upcoming publication will follow; but for the time being (as term continues super-busy and rather hectic) here are some smaller things. Firstly, a podcast I did for Gail Martin's excellent 'Chronicles of the Necromancer' site, about Splinter and the end of the world:
Ah, the fun we had recording that, what with [...]
Staines and Egham News Aug 08
Thursday, August 28th, 2008Back from holidays now, and working on a couple of things, but nothing as important as this appearance by my son Danny in the local paper. That's right! The local paper! Fame, enduring fame! Click this link and you'll see for youself. Now, in real life he doesn't have ghostly [...]
News
Thursday, March 27th, 2008A couple of brief items, foremost among them: Darren Turpin, known to some by the spritely monker Ariel, is the man who made this website. He did a fine job, too, as you can see by looking around. More, he has maintained it expertly since creating it despite my periodic attempts at smashing [...]
Swiftly proofs
Friday, December 14th, 2007The proofs for Swiftly are here, and I'm going through them with a fine tooth comb. A toothcomb that is fine. A comb with fine teeth. One of them. Well, I say that ... The fact is I'm rubbish at reading proofs, so my wife (who has The Gift when [...]
I am edged gem?
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007SFRevu seem to think so; viz., comments by John Berlyne:
Roberts, whom I always think must be the hardest working writer in the world, is a real shining gem of British genre fiction and one with many, many facets. No two books of his are alike, and his particular skill is extrapolating an entire novel from [...]
Back
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Been away. Back now. Big pile of papers on the welcome mat when we turned the key and tried to swing the door, making it hard to open more than a sliver. Most of this pile was free newspapers, fliers, junk mail and the like. Some was more substantial material that needs dealing with. I've also been spending the [...]
Welcome Back
Friday, May 25th, 2007A long haitus, almost half a year. Part of this was standard downtime, when there was little to report; part of it, on the contrary, was me being too busy with various other stuff to find the time to update the site. Now, however, the estimable Ariel has redesigned the creaky old homepage, ported it over [...]