Christmas has conspired with our germ-filled house and stolen the last few days from me! Each day I’ve told myself I have to blog, and each day I just couldn’t quite get it together to sit down and do it. The truth is I’ve been really exhausted lately, and this cold has been the last …
40 Days!
It’s getting close now! Really close! Just 40 Earth days till the 3rd of January and the publication of Sorrowline. But the truth is it’s been published already! On the 13th of November, somewhere in a factory unit in Croydon the presses rolled on the first edition of Sorrowline. Right now I imagine there are …
The Next Big Thing!
So what’s all this Next Big Thing chatter in writer’s circles on Twitter? I wasn’t sure until I was tagged not once but twice! The idea, it turns out, is simple. Its a way to discover new writers, and find out a bit about what they’re up to. In return for being tagged I’ve got …
60 Days!
60 days isn’t long, is it? Less than two months till Sorrowline is out there! A lot has happened in the last few weeks. First up I’ve just signed off on the last round of copy edits to the Sorrowline text, so its finally done. Its a odd feeling, having stepped away from it after …
80 Days!
Sorrowline has been on its travels, to the Frankfurt Book Fair no less. Billed as the world’s largest book fair its the place to be for agents and publishers to sign new books. Its not really a place for authors, its all about the business! My literary agent, Juliet Mushens was there with Rachel Mills, …
90 Days!
Things are starting to get exciting! In the last 10 days I launched my Facebook author’s page and its managed to get over 80 ‘likes’ already. I’m really grateful to everyone who has sent me messages of goodwill there too. Two parcels came last week that cheered me up as well. The first was the …
100 days!
I love a countdown. Who doesn’t? If its good enough for Astronauts and Bond villains then its good enough for a début author. So, today is exactly 100 days till publication of Sorrowline on January 3rd 2013. And by way of a celebration of that landmark date it gives me great pleasure to finally reveal …
Alien comic images
The excitement (and disappointment) around the release of Prometheus reminded me of some old artwork I made many years ago for an Aliens fanzine called Dropship. I did a couple of covers and some interior art, all black and white pen and ink drawings. It terrifies me to realise I did these almost 20 years …