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The Cast of Sleeping Dragon: Dani
The cast of the Sleeping Dragon is an ensemble one, featuring five misfits bought together by circumstances beyond their understanding, who swiftly realise that only by working together can they work out just what the hell’s going on and, more importantly, just how the hell they can get out of it. In this post we…
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Cover vs Cover: Fight!
Last weekend, during a browsing session in an Oxfam bookshop in Chester, I found an interesting pair of books on opposite shelves, which resulted in me making the following tweet shortly after: Now I should say at this point that referring to these two novels as “Dan Brown wannabes” is unfair. Shorn of the shackles…
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You Think 2016 Was Bad?
As a writer, I spend a lot of time thinking on plots of novels, and so it’s only natural that when I think about events occurring on our world, I try to imagine how they would develop were they events of fiction rather than reality. People talk about 2016 as being the year from hell,…
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My Top Ten Writing Haunts
haunt h??nt/ noun a place frequented by a specified person. “the bar was a favourite haunt of artists of the time” synonyms hang-out, stamping ground, meeting place, territory, domain, purlieu, resort, den, retreat, favourite spot; For any author, finding somewhere to write can be of crucial importance, doubly so for authors such as myself for…
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Film Review: Suicide Squad
Director: David Ayer Writer: David Ayer Stars: Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie Shit, epically so.
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Wild Jester Press’s End of July Sale
To celebrate the coming of summer and the end of school, and also to give the Amazon recommendation algorithms the slight “Hey! Remember me!” kick that they appear to require every now and again, I’m currently running a sale of both Game Night and If Pigs Could Fly though my Wild Jester Press imprint. You…
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Mugs For Discworld Convention Charity Auction
The last weekend in August will see me at the Discworld Convention in Warwick to sell copies of Game Night and If Pigs Could Fly in the trade hall. I had a really good time at last year’s Irish Discworld Convention, and sold 50+ books, and had an equally good time selling just Game Night…
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David Cameron Might Just Have Saved The UK
The most important news from yesterday, other than the referendum result, was David Cameron’s decision to not immediately trigger Article 50, but instead leave that decision to his successor to take, in October at the earliest. Had he triggered it yesterday, as he’d said during the campaign he would, he would have committed the UK…
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It’s About Identity, Not Democracy
Brexit supporters often attack the EU for its supposed lack of democracy, saying things like: “What about that President of the Commission? We didn’t elect him!” I’ve heard this time and time again, and I’ve only just realised that I’ve misunderstood it every time. Pro-Europeans such as myself hear it as: We didn’t elect him!…
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My Panel At Mancunicon (Eastercon 2016)
As well as having a stall in the trade hall to sell by books Game Night and If Pigs Could Fly, I am appearing on a panel at Eastercon on the subject of self-publishing. Hopefully, I’ll have something reasonably sensible and informative to say, on what not to do, if not necessarily on what to…
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