Only a few days to go until your New Year resolutions kick in. Have you made any?Mine is obviously to finish Past Mistakes. By "finish", I mean not only to get the text written, but the other steps that come after.Re-reading, editing, cover design, b...

Happy Friday!I hope you're looking forward to the holidays as much as I am. I need a break from the routine and nothing kicks me out of an unconscious rut as effectively as a little bit of travel. I won't be going far, just across the English Channel...

Emily Voss has been on my mind quite a lot recently.That's to be expected since I've been editing the first eight (out of nine) sections of the book intensively over the last few weeks.What book is that? Who are you again? Those are legitimate questi...

Hello from the continent.I'm now no longer living in the United Kingdom, and the culture shock is... subtle.There's ups and downs (better healthcare, less considerate drivers), but overall things are much the same as they were over in the UK. Let's f...

Hello from beneath the ocean,No, that headline isn't fiction, but it's true in two different ways.First, I am literally beneath the ocean as I write this. I'm in my car, and the laptop is perched against the steering wheel. My car is (thankfully, and...

Hello from Normandy,We're taken the risk of a holiday in France, which is terra-non-grata from the point of view of the British authorities. According to the government's current guidelines, I shall have to self-isolate for at least five days upon my...

Hello from London,I look forward to a time when Coronavirus isn't the subject of the day. It used to be that speculating about a global pandemic qualified as speculative fiction. Now, dreaming about a world free from global pandemic counts as specula...

Hello from London,You'd think, having received both doses of vaccine, having actually had Covid-19, and having observed every single rule foisted upon us by our allegedly enlightened leaders, that I'd be more or less able to travel at this point.It t...

Hello from London,I am now fully vaccinated. Which admittedly doesn't make me very special, since everyone I speak to is either there, or about to be.I received an email from the National Health Service a few days ago asking me to schedule my second...

Hello from London,Have you read both Emily Voss short stories? There are two of them, free to members of this list. They are...A First Time For EverythingTwo To TangoThese, of course, are in addition to the first episode in the series, which you shou...