Hello from London,Not for the first time, I find myself wondering how to turn the current pandemic into worthwhile speculative fiction. As I've written before, what's happening today would have made a good dystopian fiction only two short years ago....
Hello from London,What a pretentious title, right?"The writer's journey" sounded a little less campy than "What I've learned so far..."I'd been writing short stories for a long time, and scratching out story ideas for even longer, before I started wr...
Hello from London,Real work has been getting the better of me this last week. It's a pain when the reality intrudes on the fantasy worlds I'm building, but the real world sometimes sets priorities in ways that are hard to ignore.That said, I'm approa...
Hello from London,It's been a rough start to the year. Let's hope the news cycle calms down a bit and current events stop invading every other space. It's been hard to get any writing done when current events result in a near-obsessive refreshing of...
Hello from London,In a year we will likely be remembering January 6th, the second time since 1800 that the Capitol has been occupied. Last time, it was destroyed, but democracy and a sense of American identity rose stronger from the ashes. This time,...
Hello from London,Happy New Year.Yes, 2020 was a lesson in humility, and the lesson is only two-thirds finished. We're living in our own little version of a dystopian future, where everyone has to wear masks and your neighbours fall sick with the pla...
Hello from London,A very happy holiday season to you all.Now that it's done, and all things considered, Christmas is perhaps not the ideal moment to launch a new book. Not that it makes it impossible or anything, but it's hard to pay attention to the...
Hello from London,The time has come. The Emily Voss Box Set, Episodes 1-3 is released tomorrow on Amazon Kindle.The first three episodes are:Past MistakesYour Enemies CloserIn Unlikely PlacesI'm very happy with the way they turned out, although episo...
Hello from London,All the memes I receive right now are about how 2020 is a complete write-off. It's been a shocker of a year, for sure, but oddly enough it's making me take stock of how lucky I've been.On the one hand, emotionally, professionally an...
Hello from London,I hope you and your loved ones are well.Lots to get to this week, with the monthly publication of a new episode of World of Skills (you can get the first instalment free here), a whole load of free and promoted books at the bottom o...
