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First of all – if you are a writer and you’re not following Gareth on Twitter get on over there right now and tick that follow box. Gareth is very generous with his time on Twitter and often does AMA’s and opens his feed to help writers. I’ll wait… As I posted here I’m kinda addictedContinue reading “Review: About Writing by Gareth L Powell”

I am briefly popping in to say that I’m generally pretty busy at the moment with the day job, editing Forgotten Sidekicks, reading a ton of background so the interviews at Cymera go well and progressing with Certainty of Dust (I’ve mailed a new synopsis to my editor last week and got a thumbs upContinue reading “Why so quiet?”

So far I’ve signed up to do a few events, with more cropping up throughout the year . Penned Up – March 20th. This is a literary event inside a prison, which is intriguing. SFW X Part 1 – March 29-30th. I’m on the programme being interviewed, talking about genre and doing a signing CymeraContinue reading “Events”

Pandora opened her box and let out all the evils that afflict mankind and the last thing left inside the box was hope. Hope – a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen Hope can be a cruel master and something all writers must struggle with. You hope your writing isContinue reading “The last evil is hope”

  So my story “Masks,” from The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors volume 1 has been chosen by Ellen Datlow for The best Horror of the Year volume 11 which I’m blown away by. It’s like going to a party and being surrounded by beautiful, famous people and wondering why you’re there, why you were invited. I meanContinue reading “Success and Failure”

In June i’ll be in Edinburgh for the inaugral Cymera festival where I’ll be interviewing Richard Morgan about his new book and also Anna Stephens and Cameron Johnston It looks like a great festival and they’re doing a writing competition with Shoreline of Infinity which is a great opportunity for new writers to get noticed.    

So this week I’ve mostly been busy doing a blog tour which included some extracts, and interview and a couole of reviews: PainPals here Ramblings of a writer here I also had a #smallpressbighstories review over on Fantasy Faction

I have submitted a new short story for an anthology (fingers crossed on that). Am working through the edits on another (which means it’s been accepted) and there has been a “things are happening” update on a third anthology. So the short story machine is still occasionally spitting out writing despite the fact the novelContinue reading “What passes for news”

After the Fesival of Literature came a vacation and after the vacation came Christmas and New Year and my birthday and suddenly it’s 2019 and I haven’t updated the blog for almost 4 months! I’m busy reading through all the stories we got for Forgotten Sidekicks (a little patience is required from submitters but we’llContinue reading “What’s the point of a blog if you never add to it?”