So I mentioned last week that I was one of the three judges for this year's British Fantasy Award for best short fiction, and mention...

I've been thinking a bit about awards lately. And barely two weeks ago I was attending the ceremony for the British Fantasy Awards , ...

I had some significant doubts about going to this year's FantasyCon .  After all, my reaction to FantasyCon 2012 and to last year'...

It's been all of an age since I last attended any kind of writing and / or genre-related do in York, and a large part of the reason for...

It's a while since I've done one of these Tales of Damasco updates, but that doesn't mean there hasn't been plenty of go...

Crown Thief in all its glorious glory. I wrote up some general impressions of this year's Fantasycon at the start of the week , most...

Another year, another Fantasycon.  This year's had a lot to live up to after 2011's glorious, sun-soaked high-jinks, but also a lot...

Perhaps a little late to be mentioning this, but I'm going to be at Fantasycon 2012 in sunny Brighton (or, touch wood, at least not tor...

I just finished listening to my first ever audiobook.  Well, unless you count the bonkers seventies BBC radio adaptation of The Hobbit I w...

I've done a standup job of missing out on recent British Fantasy Society events since I left York a few years ago, what with always bei...

So I not only went to but survived, and not only survived but enjoyed my first Fantasycon - that being, for anyone who doesn't know, the...

Something me and my writer mate Rafe McGregor often used to debate was the question of whether a writer should ever give their work away for...

As of the start of last week, Theaker's Quarterly Fiction # 29 is now out to buy in print from Lulu , or to download for that best of ...

I just came back from a weekend in suprisingly sunny Cambridge to much news, both good and bad. Let's get the bad out of the way fir...