I have been thinking about the moment when I first thought analytically about prose. It happened sometime during my English Language A-level. I had a combative, Harold Bloom-esque relationship with my teacher, Miss M – a vivid and brilliant woman whom I would now adore and treat with the respect she deserved rather than trying [...]
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Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things
Posted in Anthologies, Doctor Who on Jul 14th, 2010
Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures Edited by: Ross P. Garner, Melissa Beattie and Una McCormack The successful regeneration of Doctor Who in the twenty-first century has sparked unprecedented popular success and renewed interest within the academy. The ten essays assembled in this volume draw on [...]
Forbidden Planet signing
Posted in Novels on Jul 14th, 2010
A reminder for anyone in central London this weekend: I’ll be signing copies of The King’s Dragon at Forbidden Planet on Shaftesbury Avenue, 1-2pm, with Gary Russell (author of The Glamour Chase) and Oli Smith (author of Nuclear Time). More info here.
The King’s Dragon – prelude
Posted in Doctor Who, Novels, Television, Writing on Jul 5th, 2010
My Doctor Who novel, The King’s Dragon, is published on Thursday, and you can read an exclusive Amazon prelude, linked from here.
Code switching
Posted in Writing on Jun 9th, 2010
I am writing two short stories at the moment, switching between them. I work on one in the mornings, and the other in the afternoons. The first is reflective, written in pencil on paper, each word an effort, mined. The second is fast-moving, typed, a crime story, written to remind me that I am able [...]
Requiems for the Departed: launch
Posted in Anthologies, Writing on Jun 7th, 2010
This Wednesday, 10th June at 6.30pm, Requiems for the Departed will be launched at the No Alibis Bookstore in Belfast. More here. You can find out more about my story, “The Sea is Not Full”, here, and read a little interview with me on the Crime Scene NI blog here.
I’m doing a signing at Forbidden Planet in London, with the lovely Gary Russell and Oli Smith, authors, respectively, of Doctor Who: The Glamour Chase and Doctor Who: Nuclear Time. More here. Saturday 17 July 13:00 – 14:00 London Megastore 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR Come and say hello and buy shed-loads of copies!
What’s that? You’d like to see the cover of my forthcoming Doctor Who novel The King’s Dragon featuring the eleventh Doctor and published by BBC Books on 8 July? Well luckily for you I can oblige… And, yes, since you ask, you can pre-order from Amazon.
Requiems for the Departed available for pre-order!
Posted in Anthologies, Writing on Apr 12th, 2010
Requiems for the Departed available for pre-order from here! Don’t miss out on the lovely limited run hardback edition!
Coming Soon: Requiems for the Departed
Posted in Anthologies, Writing on Mar 24th, 2010
Press release from Morrigan Books about their forthcoming anthology Requiems for the Departed, edited by Gerard Brennan & Mike Stone, in which I have a story: Another great anthology from Morrigan Books and yet another fantastic cover from Reece Notley: Edited by Gerard Brennan & Mike Stone Requiems for the Departed Irish Crime, Irish Myths. [...]
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