THE SKINNER

I picked this up from a website called galleycat but it's scattered all over the Internet elsewhere too. I signed the addendum to m...

My thanks to the staff at Forbidden Planet for having me there signing books again (and providing sandwiches, cake and tea). Not a vast atte...

Don't forget I'm signing The Gabble today at Forbidden Planet , 179 Shaftesbury Avenue , London, between 6-7pm.

Success! I actually managed to clean out the printer cartridge, refill it and get it all working again (though for how long I don't know...

Y’know, I’m heartily sick of the rip-off printer manufacturers that dominate the market now. I bought an Epson printer some years back which...

Thanks to Mark, Adam and the rest of the staff at the Colchester Waterstones for having me there signing books today. Let's hope you sel...

Subterfuge: A clever device or strategy used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, or to hide something... Ian Whates just visited me tod...

I've been having fun trying to convert a pdf sent to me by Macmillan into a jpg so I could put a picture of this cover up here. Nice fre...

Still, a lethal laser that can reach full power in less than a second may cause Northrop Grumman’s stock to rise and the phones to ring of...

Well, since it's now out there on the Internet , there's not much point in me keeping quiet about it. Hopefully Hollywood Insider w...

Nice profile piece on me in the December 2008 issue of SFX, with a full page picture too (inside, not that scary-eyed depilatephobe on the f...

Okay, I’ve had a little rant so now it’s time for a writing update. As far as I can gather, Shadow of the Scorpion , a shorter novel about C...

Ah, back in the land of politically-correct wank and bureaucracy for less than 24 hours and already I want to turn round and climb on the ne...

Righto, back at a fast constant Internet connection and time to start catching up. First off, I'll be doing a couple of signings this mo...

Apparently what Keith Brooke calls me in the Guardian!

Since I might not be posting on here for a little while, here's a nice little story for you to enjoy while I'm gone... ...

Interesting rant here from Richard Morgan, which I generally agree with. Of course I found it while doing an ego search with my name...

Righto, I've cleared 100,000 words of Orbus, which is always a bit a of a milestone, and the endgame progresses nicely what with a plane...

This is an old one, with some bits I no longer agree with, but I'll give it to you as it was: RE-WRITE. When do you cease to re-wr...

It’s really enjoyable watching Brown and Darling squirming over this 10p tax rate furore and you have to ask yourself how Brown, lauded as ...