Jonny Nexus

Category: Writing

  • The NeXus Files – Coming This August – By Me!

    That writing involves frustratingly long lead times between you completing a book and it being published is a reasonably well known fact. That there can sometimes be a long lead time between you completing a book and it being announced, it perhaps less well-known. But it’s even more frustrating. So it’s with great pleasure that…

  • Signing Response Mail: Too Self-Depreciating?

    I received today an email from one of the Illustrious (Eastercon 2011) organisers saying that my name has been given to her as an author attending the con, and asking if I would like to attend any or all of their three author signing sessions. Here’s the reply I’ve just sent to her: Hi Meg,…

  • Is There Really No Such Genre As Humorous SF/Fantasy?

    Today is not turning out to be a day to be happy. At best it’s turning out to be a day to think, and it’s not proving to be the sort of thinking that leads to outcomes I like. Why? Well I’ve got a simple ambition – simple to define that is, certainly not simple…

  • A Little Twitter Love…

    My first novel Game Night had a gaming theme and was consequently published by a gaming publisher, Magnum Opus Press. My second novel has a wider theme and so I’m looking to get a mainstream publisher for it – which means looking for an agent. This is a quite depressing process. What keeps me going…

  • Stone Skin Press And Me

    What’s Stone Skin Press? Well it’s a newly launched fiction imprint from well-regarded gaming publisher Pelgrane Press (Esoterrorists, Trail of Cthulhu, Dying Earth), with renowned writer Robin Laws ably1 serving as Creative Director. Why am I telling you this? For the self-centred and perhaps even egotistical reason that I’ve got a story in one of Stone…

  • Revealed: My Super-Secret Writer’s Hideaway

    I was walking back to the station with a colleague after work last night (I walk past his bus stop on the way to the station) and he mentioned that I’d walked straight past him the previous day, when he was waiting. Him: You walked straight past me, without noticing me. Me: I do that.…

  • My All-Time Favourite Media Tie-In Novel

    I’ve just started reading a book called Tied In: The Business, History and Craft of Media Tie-In Writing, which is the result of a collaboration by several members of The Internation Association of Media Tie-in Writers. I bought it after Matt Forbeck (@mforbeck), who’s one of the contributors, recommended it on his blog. What’s a…

  • Analysis Of A Joke: Lazy? Offensive? Both? Neither?

    A few nights ago I went to the Krater Comedy Club at Brighton’s Komedia. I’d seen other acts, the Maydays for example, at Komedia, but had thus far avoided the Krater Comedy Club, figuring its humour would be targeted at pissed-up hen and stag parties. But my brother was in town, and we wanted to…

  • From Tiny Acorns…

    I’m currently closing in on the completion of the first draft of what will hopefully become my second published novel. Word count at the moment is 90,000+ words, every single one of them written on a train. Writing on the train has been my standard modus operandi for some years now. But just recently, while…

  • Will The iPad Change The Way We Read Comics?

    Yesterday, I got a chance to have a real play on a friend’s iPad. And yes, I really am taken. But that’s another story, for another post. Of all the apps I played with, the one that really got me thinking was the Marvel comics app that my friend had purchased. It’s a really nice…