THE SKINNER

Well, I watched John Carter with mixed reactions. It was visually gorgeous with its landscapes, cities and weird flying machines (which bor...

Just as a matter of interest, here are some mock ups of the Zero Point cover. These are roughs (shit I couldn't produce perfected artwor...

Tor Books has a blog over here for anyone interested in keeping up with what they're producing. The most recent post is about  Zero Poi...

Interesting: I’m 51, I smoke and often drink more than the government’s silly recommended limits. On January 1st after Christmas excesses my...

Heh, I never spotted this picture before. It's from Starship Sofa and the audio version of my short story The Gurnard . To the right you...

 After working backwards through Jupiter War I next worked through it forwards again and at last it was time to send it off. ‘Sending off t...

Okay, Night Shade Books has made an offer for the US rights for all three titles in the Owner trilogy: The Departure , Zero Point and Jupi...

Not much in the way of actual writing being done at the moment since I’m reading backwards through Jupiter War. I read one paragraph at a t...

There’s quite a bit on the news about a hose pipe ban in the East of England and I cannot help but note how the elephant in the room is bei...

Here we go. Here's the finished cover of Zero Point: The billions of Zero Asset citizens of Earth are free from their sectors, free f...

Okay, while in Chester I obviously didn’t keep up my word count and prior to that I was checking the final sheets of Zero Point so now, aft...

We took a train to Chester on Friday, neither Caroline nor I particularly liking driving there, and it was a quick and easy journey. Also, f...

Well, no real announcement yet, but it appears the Owner trilogy – The Departure , Zero Point and Jupiter War – might be being taken on by a...

On the website SF Signal they often have this thing called ‘ Mind Meld ’ whereby a question is asked and various characters from the SF wor...

Assuming that I'm stranded alone, if I were to choose five books for a desert island, I would want books with humanistic reflection and ...

Interesting. There's been lots of discussion here and elsewhere about E-books, pirates and DRM. Whenever I go ego searching I'm ofte...

I’ve been going back through my blog selecting out old reviews I’d done and posting them on Good Reads. While doing this I was reminded of v...

I had a bit of a day off yesterday, going off to meet a guy  in a pub on the other side of Maldon - he buys my books every year and every ye...

Okay, let's have another open thread. 

So, last week was a good one during which I beat my target of 10,000 words of fiction by 1231, on top of which I did 917 words for the blog ...