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Costa Short Story Awards are here
Not only that, they’re offering a whopping £3500 first place, £1500 second place and £500 third. They’re going to shortlist six authors and then put them through the ringer by making them attend an all expenses-paid event in January 2015. I think I’d be an emotional wreck by then, and I’m not sure that my … Continue reading
I actually WROTE last night
I’ve set myself a daily 1000 word target. Every night so far I have hit or exceeded that, with the result that I’m ahead. The book that I’m writing will hopefully be a 75,000 word children’s novel and will tell the adventures of the airship Merry Sue and her crew – the one-eyed gnome bounty … Continue reading
Where I try to draw concepts for my next novel
Believe it or not, I can’t draw. However, I can draw well enough to enable the ‘lucky’ artist chosen to turn these images into reality and actually look fairly decent. Added to the descriptions from the text and the fluff for the Two Pistols Pariah universe, I’m hoping that these will look absolutely epic. Or … Continue reading
To get further in life, surround yourself with people who inspire you
That title is somewhat misleading. I don’t want this to come across as ‘use people to get where you want to be’ type post. That’s not what this is about, and anyone who does that is, in the words of Will Wheaton, a ‘Dick’. As everyone is no doubt aware, my interests lie in a) … Continue reading
Fighting Fantasy Fest – YOU are the hero!
Jonathan Green has announced that tickets for FIGHTING FANTASY FEST 2014 – the world’s first ever convention dedicated to Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks – are on sale now. Guests of Honour Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone will be giving a talk about how FF first came to be, artists Chris Achilleos, Russ Nicholson, Malcolm Barter and Tony Hough are … Continue reading
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