Month: November 2011

I am today's featured Kindle All Stars author interview on Fringe Scientist! Click here to read it. I have to say that Tony has kindly written a glowing and extremely generous intro for me, and I feel very flattered by it.  In terms of the anthology itself, the manuscript has been finalised and is being… Continue reading Fringe Scientist Kindle All Stars author interview

Within Blogger, the platform that I use to publish this site, there is a rather neat statistics function that allows you to monitor how many visitors are coming to your site, where they are coming from and, in the even that they are coming from a search engine, what key words and phrases they have… Continue reading A tale of two tails

The other day C. J. Hall and I were talking about writing a piece of fiction about Margaret Thatcher once she'd died. We came up with two completely different ways of approaching it, each of which would be fun in different ways. The first approach involved doing careful research and portraying her sympathetically as a… Continue reading Riding roughshod over Margaret Thatcher’s still-warm corpse

Whilst living as my alter-ego of a deluded martial arts wannabe I recently wrote an article for Vision TKD about the ITF Taekwon-Do pattern Juche. The article is called The Dilemma Of Juche, and it explores my hypothesis that the removal of the pattern Ko-Dang and its replacement by the pattern Juche was done by… Continue reading The Dilemma Of Juche

When I first started writing, when I was young and stupid and naive (or at least younger and more stupid and more naive), I wrote about big things.I wrote about life and death, I wrote about the nature of existence, I wrote about the individuality of human perception. I wrote an entire novel that will… Continue reading Narrowing the lens

I am an adultI'm not ashamed to admit that I play video games. I'm similarly not ashamed to admit that I'm old enough that I call them computer games, because I first started playing them on the ZX Spectrum in about 1983. I enjoy the escapism of them, and the sense of challenge and accomplishment,… Continue reading Narrative in video games

Throughout the month of November, ahead of the impending launch of Resistance Front, Tony Healey will be interviewing authors involved in the Kindle All Stars project at his website, Fringe Scientist. This will include interviews with Harlan Ellison and Alan Dean Foster! I've provided him with an interview, which I think is scheduled for week… Continue reading Fringe Scientist Interviews

I heard someone on the radio the other day extolling the death of the print publishing industry.This isn't new, and it isn't necessarily something that I would normally take issue with. The analogy that he used to describe it, however, did make me think. He said that he thought that within twenty years there would… Continue reading As dead as the horse