I’m somewhat ambivalent about Bonfire Night. Though there are a few people who I wouldn’t mind seeing burnt in effigy, Guy Fawkes isn’t one of them. At college, I had a poster on my wall saying’ Guy Fawkes: the only man to enter Parliament with honest intentions.’ Most modern northern European festivals hark back to […]
Oooh … aahhhh … Burn the Heretic
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 6 November 2007 0
Watch the skies!
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 29 October 2007 0
I’ve just found an exploded comet. Well, I didn’t find it as such, but I’ve managed to locate the romantically named Comet 17P/Holmes in the night sky. It’s not hard, as this thing is the size of Jupiter. It didn’t used to be, but it’s just exploded. This news will probably (hopefully) get picked up […]
The Significant Season
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 18 October 2007 0
For some reason most of the important things that have happened to me occur in the autumn (the book deal with Gollancz this May being a notable exception). This time two years ago I went off on the Big Trip (of which much more below, if you can be bothered to page down far enough). […]
The Artist as Hypocrite
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 12 October 2007 0
Forgive me, but I’m going to rant. If you live in the U.K. and you read SF, you probably know what, or should I say who, has got me so worked up. If not, then as I don’t want to get in trouble, I’ll just refer to Ms X. Ms X is a ‘literary’ writer […]
Half way there – sort of
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 4 October 2007 0
Since returning from the Milford SF writer’s workshop last week (which was excellent, by the way), I’ve passed what I originally thought of as the half-way mark of the first draft of ‘Consorts of Heaven’. I’m now getting to the part of the novel which many writers find a bit of a slog. I’m happy […]
In defence of the RPG
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 6 September 2007 0
My name is Jaine and I am a gamer. I should probably qualify that statement. Firstly, by ‘gamer’ I mean old fashioned table-top role-playing games, not these new-fangled computer adventures (fun though they can be). Secondly, I don’t game that much these days. It’s not something I feel the need to do any more, largely […]
Troublesome priests
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 27 August 2007 0
This week, I have mainly been designing a theocracy. Actually that’s not entirely true, as I’ve now started to critique stories and novel excerpts for Milford, the annual British SF writers’ workshop week coming up soon. But I’ve also been world-building for ‘Consorts of Heaven’. My evil gaming past means I’ve done a fair bit […]
Podcast!
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 8 August 2007 0
My story ‘The Path to the Sun’ is now available as a (free!) podcast from ‘The Great Beyond’. The link below should take you to it… thegreatbeyond.libsyn.com
A Small World moment
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 27 July 2007 0
We have friends from New Zealand staying. They’re originally from Round ‘ere but now live Over There. While I was working one of them went into the village. He came back and told me he’d just run into someone he knew. I asked if he meant from before he moved to NZ. No, he said, […]
Time’s up: pens down
Posted by Jaine Fenn on 5 July 2007 0
When is a novel finished? When it’s published, of course. I’ve been working on ‘Principles of Angels’ for over seven years, on and off, alongside short stories and other projects. About half of that time I’ve been doing re-work, either as a result of feedback from critiquers or to make changes I’ve decided I […]