The Ebook Conspiracy

There is an ebook conspiracy going on out there, I’m sure of it. Engineered by Apple and Amazon (notice that both company names start with A?), they have been quietly kidnapping publishers and brain-washing them before releasing them in front of alarmist journalists to squeal, ‘10% of our sales this year have been ebooks’ or […]

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The Origins of Fantasy?

Last weekend, I was driving through the Pennine Moors and switched the radio on to fend off boredom. It was set to Radio 4, because it helps me keep my speed down and I find it intellectually more stimulating than the lame attempts at slapstick by the Radio 1 DJs. A lady was talking about […]

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Split-Personality

Writing whilst trying to hold down a full-time job is a lot harder than most give credit to. I speak to a lot of people who think I spend my time in artistic pursuits and faffing around being ‘creative’, composing light and airy prose and dreaming up fantastic concepts. Actually, most of my day is […]

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Keeping up Appearances

Whilst going through my short story folder, I realised that I haven’t really been pushing much or writing much new stuff. I’ve been so focused on working on my novels that I haven’t given much thought to shorter fiction. Now I recall that David Farland mentioned in a recent post that a writer needs to […]

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