THE SKINNER

Okay, I’ve just been on holiday yet again (but I was writing stuff on the beach, and not in the sand) and, as before, I wasn’t going to anno...

Good news on the selling front. Via Jeremy Lassen’s blog (I think) I’ve learnt that Prador Moon is in the trade paperback top five at Borde...

A few items on the Breakfast TV caught my attention today. One was an excerpt from a program called ‘Super Nanny’. It showed the house the ...

Before getting into this writing game full time, I was one of those guys you see driving around in a truck with the back stacked up with he...

A story called Mason’s Rats appears in here. I wrote it ages ago, then went on to produce Mason’s Rats II & III . The first two were pu...

Caroline has just got herself a new mobile phone which is so ridiculously packed with functions that you probably need to take some sort of...

Right, back on track. There’s another ‘bit of a do’ earlier than the one at Heffers on the 2nd November. I’ll be at the Forbidden Planet in ...

For anyone who is in the area, there’s to be a bit of a do at Heffers Bookshop in the Grafton Centre, Cambridge, on 2nd November starting at...

While biking along today, reflecting on the lack of girly mags lying on the verge being due to inveterate wankers getting their fix of porn ...

One of the few valid uses in this country, of 4x4s and other large private vehicles, is the towing caravans – an activity that is apparentl...

Max Part Four: The Ending. After Marjorie’s death we had to wonder what would now happen to her dog. We continued walking him on a regul...

Macmillan have agreed a new deal with Bastei Lubbe in Germany for the next two books, Polity Agent and Hilldiggers. Great stuff - the Germa...

Damn and buggeration. I’ve just discovered that David Gemmell is dead at the age of 57. He’d had a heart bypass a couple of weeks ago, but o...

Ah I see the cover for Brass Man is up on amazon.com, but sadly it’s not out in America until January, and sadly The Line of Polity isn’t c...

While on holiday I read three books, all of which were enjoyable. First was courtesy of Stefanie Bierwerth at Macmillan – one time oppo of ...

Here’s a little bit more, but that’ll be all. The thing about sunny slothful holidays is that really, there ain’t a lot to say other than: ...

9/7/06 Nice apartments we’ve found ourselves in: path leading up to our veranda and front door surrounded by a garden full of lemon and p...

Okay, I haven’t put anything in here for a while because Caroline and I have been sunning ourselves in Skiathos. I said nothing about this ...

Max Part Three What was going to happen to Max? With Marjorie being moved into a ‘recovery home’ for an indeterminate period, he surely c...

From 800 years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity. Those coming through it had been sent to take the alien 'Maker...