Talking about writing, talking about music

I’m very pleased to have been asked to present a talk for the Scottish Writers’ Centre (scroll down) in April. The evening will be called Writing And Song, and I’ll be talking about my approaches to writing fiction and song lyrics, about how I think these art forms art different and about how I think they’re […]

Various Variety

Being, in the main, a round-up of random stuff from the last week. It’s been one of those weeks. Life is so a Cabaret – spent the weekend in London watching various varieties of cabaret performance. Most especially lovely to see Miss Leggy Pee taking her unique brand of charming on the road to such […]

A word in your shell-like

I find this rather exciting. TTAPress have just launched a new arm to their kaliesque fiction goddess – a podcast site called Transmissions From Beyond. Looks like it will consist of spoken word readings of stories published in all three of TTA’s magazines: Interzone, Crimewave and Black Static. There’s three stories up now for your […]

Diary Dates

Creeping out of winter hibernation this week to actually go out and do some performing, if anyone fancies an evening’s entertainment, here’s a couple of suggestions: Monday 4th – Spangled Cabaret launch, an evening of variety, burlesque, puppetry, and a whole bunch else, featuring: Rufus T.Farenheit & Lucille Burn/Miss Leggy Pee/Daiquiri Dusk/Markee/Little Red Fairy/Nicola Siix/Vendetta […]