I got the page proofs for ‘Principles of Angels’ back to Gollancz in time, despite the best efforts of the Royal Mail. (Note to lazy eejit in central London sorting office: your cunning plan to claim that the recipient of the Special Delivery ‘before 1pm’ was out in order to save actually delivering the parcel […]

Well, I survived Eastercon, even if my voice didn’t. Amongst many other firsts at the con (being interviewed, being hypnotised, being sober quite a lot of the time), I did my first non-verbal program item, due to a bout of laryngitis. Green Room came up trumps and made me cue cards for the ‘Sex and […]

This time tomorrow I should be at Eastercon, on one of my first panels as a ‘pro’. I’m a bit ambivalent about this, for a number of reasons. Firstly, though I (or rather my hard-drinking, role-playing, costume-wearing alter ego JW) went to a lot of cons back in the mists of the last century, I’ve […]

Though the recent weather here has turned the local countryside into something of a trackless waste, or perhaps a scene reminiscent of the Somme, the wastes that are occupying my mind at the moment are the fictional, slightly Welsh, and possibly rather wordy ones in ‘Consorts of Heaven’. I am, technically, a third of the […]

M the Uber-geek has done his magic and put a PDF of the interview I did recently up on the site. You can find it under ‘Links’. where he’ s created a new section called ‘Interviews’, as there may be more to come. If you do check it out, I must apologise for the pun. […]

I’m about a quarter of the way into the rewrites for Consorts, and it’s rather taken over my life. Because I am that rare beast, a writer who prefers rewriting to first draft, I don’t mind too much (though I’m aware that I’m shamefully neglecting Beloved, who is currently laid up after a knee op). […]

Last Sunday I signed my first copy of Principles of Angels (a proof copy, or, as they’re now known, a "typo-rich collectors’ edtion"). It was for one of the people who helped me get it written, so I didn’t have to try and be all cool and casual about it. (I aspire to be as […]

I’m easing myself slowly into the rewrites for Consorts of Heaven. As well as adding background and character detail, tightening up the narrative and sorting a couple of plot issues pointed out by my crit group, I need to do some more in-depth research, the sort requiring actual books. Unfortunately, the subjects I’m interested in […]

I got the initial bound proof copy of ‘Principles of Angels’ today. There it is, my story, in a proper book (albeit with typos – but that’s OK, it’s a proof). Weird. In a good way. I’ve taken to picking it up, looking at it, and putting it down. This makes me smile. Part of […]

January’s been a bit of a break from my usual routine. Overall I’ve done less writing, as I’ve been working my way through a list of more mundane tasks, many of them DIY related, a lot of them involving paint, which I now have speckled in various hard to reach places about my house and […]