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Octocon – Full Story With Tweets and Pics
Octocon is the Irish National Science Fiction convention, in some ways the Irish equivalent of Eastercon, albeit run by the same committee each year in the same city, Dublin. I’d never been before, but I had been (many, many years ago) to Irish gaming conventions like Dublin’s Gaelcon and Cork’s Warpcon, which I enjoyed hugely,…
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Discworld Convention 2022
I wasn’t originally planning on attending this year’s Discworld Convention (the first since 2018, after 2020 was first postponed and then cancelled). But then Mike, who runs the trade hall contacted me asking if I would be interested in having a stand in the trade hall and appearing on a panel. It took a little…
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Black Lives Matter: A Personal Anecdote
Some years back, a black friend took me to a Poetry Slam event organised by the Afro-Caribbean Leukaemia Trust. The event, which pitched a team of Black British performance poets against a team of Black American performance poets in a crowd-judged event, was great fun. But it was during the interval that the founder and…
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Game Night – A Relaunch For The Streaming Era
I first self-published Game Night (Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Goodreads), my novel of six Greek-style gods roleplaying with the mortal realm below, in December 2007. This was a different world. D&D’s Fourth Edition was just launching to a largely lack-lustre response, at a time when the RPG industry was a pretty low, post OGL boom, ebb. Amazon’s…
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Jonnycon II: Full Story With Pics
Today is the morning after the night before, where the night before was Jonnycon II, the launch party for my latest novel, the Sleeping Dragon. That actually makes it sounds a tad more debauched than it was; it was actually a quite sober though still enjoyable occasion, and we’re all fine the next day with…
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Launch Day Has Arrived!
Today is Sunday 24th February 2019, and that means that after what seems like a very, very long wait, the Sleeping Dragon is finally being published, worldwide, in paperback and in Amazon Kindle. The paperback is priced at $9.99 / £6.99, and for the time being, the Kindle version is at a special launch price…
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