John Klima

Little bit of pimpage for editor friend, John Klima. For those of you who don’t know him, John’s the editor of Hugo-winning short fiction zine, Electric Velocipede. Specifically, he’s the genius who asked writers to create stories around the championship-deciding words of the Scripps spelling competition, and collected the ones he liked best into Logorrhea: Good […]

Clarke award shortlist

So, the 2012 Clarke award shortlist was announced this morning and, as has become the custom, the genre corner of Twitter has lit up like a Christmas tree as commentators register their surprise. That’s one of the things I love about the Clarke’s – the shortlist is never predictable. In fact there is now an […]

Smiles and Sunday Mouths

I’m wrote this, appropriately enough, on a Sunday morning in March. A stunning day and, once I was done, I went out for leisurely donner down Great Western Road. Which is exactly what Sundays are for. The reason for the post is to properly announce and celebrate the newest Murnie release: the sundaymouth ep. As we did […]

It’s Friday, so it must be…

Today seems to be a day to be talking about music, and that got me thinking about the fact I’ve not done a NAF entry for ages. It’s not that I’ve not been buying new music (on Fridays or any other days), just that I’ve had very time for those kinds of posts. Hopefully I’ll […]

Open mouth, prepare to speak

Really pleased to say that the new murnie ep is now available for pre-order over on Bandcamp. This one is called sundaymouth, it has four tracks and I’ll be posting in more detail about it over the weekend, but for now you can hop on over there if you like and pre-order the album by pledging anything […]

Tying it all together

Finally, after a lot of replotting and revisioning, I’m at that stage with the novel where I’m attempting to pull all of the various story threads together into something resembling a neat conclusion. As of the latest revisions there are eleven main plot elements that somehow need to be gathered and tied and trimmed into […]

February Reads

This update is both late because of megabusyness** and slight because once again I spent the month mainly reading an unpublished novel again, but I did get through a few shorts in recent issues of Interzone, Black Static, Clarkesworld and Lightspeed. None of the pieces I took in from Clarkesworld really stood out for me […]

A Drabble Wot I Wrote

Just realised that a drabble that I wrote last year has been published over at 100 Word Story, a cracking micro-fiction site. It’s only wee, but it counts in terms of my ten story challenge. One down, nine to go.

The Seven R’s (or Eight, or Nine)

For all my artistic ambitions as declared so forthrightly last month, there was always going to come a point where all the various things that demand energy were going to clash, leading ultimately to failure to really progress much of note. This week I have been Revising the final draft of the current day job project […]

Conventionality

Round about this time every year I start to check the calendar to see how many weeks are left until Eastercon, one of my cherished biannual breaks spent in the company of my excellent friends in the genre writing community. And, on finding out that it’s still six weeks distant (*sigh*!) I’m always a little […]