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The Messenger Bird by Ruth Eastham – a blog tour visit
Today I’m delighted to welcome a rare blog guest post from another author who loves to craft a story around a code. With me, part of the inspiration for THE JOSHUA FILES was the real-life code-cracking...
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Remembering MaryD
Breakfast with MaryD and Eoin 1993 A few weeks back I received some very sad news that MaryD, the mother of a close childhood friend, had died. This post is dedicated to Mary and all the memories I...
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Interview with Andy Briggs author of Tarzan – The Jungle Warrior
I’ll bet there aren’t many fans of the adventure genre who don’t owe a huge hunk of debt to one of the greatest fictional characters of all time – Tarzan. When it comes to strange exotic lands, jungle...
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Eight questions for Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of new...
Junot Diaz (via Slate) If you’re one of the six people who regularly read this blog you may remember me turning to goo over my discovery a coupla years back of my new favourite living author, the...
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Support your school librarian and the Getting of Wisdom
Today, school librarians and their supporters will stage a mass lobby in support of school libraries at the Houses of Parliament. I’d hoped to go but childcare duty calls, and the child is a bit poorly...
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Five to Doomsday – Day 4: What 3 books would you save from the apocalypse?...
For today’s special Mayan apocalypse-themed post, I’ll be posing a dilemma faced by one of the characters in APOCALYPSE MOON. (I won’t say which character, in case you haven’t read the book yet because...
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Jimmy’s Back
A rare return to the blog – I’ve not retired, simply retired to Twitter and Facebook, like so many bloggers. But once in a while, I may have a thought or experience that’s worthy of more than a...
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Gemini Force One Kickstarter progress – 17 days to go!
Have you been watching my tweets and Facebook updates? If so, you may have seen some of the AMAZING progress made in the campaign to complete and launch an unfinished project by one of my heroes from...
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Book launch season and a very special debut from Sarah Hilary
Spring is the season for book launches. After a few years as an author, this means lots of friends with new books out. Which means – book launch parties! Hurrah, as we say in the book industry. So far...
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Hanging with my people, the geeks
With Jamie Anderson and Richard James (SPACE PRECINCT) and FAB1 Y’all know what a ma-hoosive geek I am. Blake’s 7, Doctor Who, Thunderbirds, to say nothing of X-Files, Babylon 5, Star Trek DS9,...
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