THE SKINNER

Excellent, Pocket/Fleuve Noir of the UNIVERS POCHE Group are buying Cowl to publish in France next year. They’ve already bought Gridlinked...

Here's some of the blurb from the Asimov's Science Fiction site for the June issue of the magazine. I've yet to see the cover w...

When I received the image of the full dust jacket of Prador Moon I noted that the picture on the back was from Hilldiggers. It was only when...

Well, being the publicity tart that I am, I've now started doing a few bits with a Myspace account I got about two years ago. The profil...

Couple of bits here: Over the last year or so I’ve only written two short stories … or rather novelettes. One of these is called Alien A...

Time for a pretty picture, which I had hell's own trouble converting from and adobe file. Here then is the cover of the Macmillan Britis...

I found this joke submitted to the Normal Bob Smith site (link down on the right) by one of his fans. Not to everyone's taste, but I lau...

Here's the raw truth: All the computer models are wrong. They have not only failed to predict the future, they can't even predict ...

Along with Caroline and my mother I went to see and hear an all time favorite author of mine at the Mercury Theatre in Colchester . As one ...

Couple of things I need to update here. A while back I slammed the latest series of Battlestar Galactica and that criticism now needs to be...

Every time a new one of my books comes out a guy who lives over the other side of Maldon from me calls me up and arranges for us to meet in ...

Okay, here I am four days after ceasing to put any nicotine of any kind in my body and six days after stubbing out my last rollie, so I’m pa...

I don’t know what the precise statistics are, but most smokers really want to be non-smokers though have some problems getting over an addi...

A few weeks back I visited Ireland for the first time. Caroline booked us into a guesthouse/B&B called Amberleigh in Cobh...

Well, enough doom and gloom. Here’s the excellent cover of The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction edited by George Mann. Cool cover and, o...

Apparently 37,000 people die from lung cancer in the UK each year, and it is figures like this that have supposedly motivated the governmen...

He was a jazz musician, a lecturer in applied mathematics, fly fisherman, one-time RAF pilot and the husband of Hazel Asher for 57 years. M...

I just received this from Jonathan K Stephens: I’ll hand you over to him now: I've just received the new SF Bookclub catalogue and w...

Well, I need a bit of humour right now. Some of you may remember the one I put up some while ago called Rockfish. This is by the same people...

Just to keep you guys updated with the situation in the Asherverse: though the writing is going well and I fully intend to supply you all wi...