I suppose the main thing I have to say about The Desert Cold is that it was my first ever professional sale, almost seven years ago now, a...

As their officially delegated spokeshuman, it falls upon me to announce that the rat populace of the world is - as of this date, the 18th o...

There aren't many careers these days where people can rob you so casually, so effortlessly or so unapologetically as fiction writing. ...

What are we supposed to call non-genre fiction these days?  I refuse to go with 'literary', because that implies that books like 19...

A couple of new short stories out this month... Firstly, we have First Date up at AE - The Canadian Review of Science Fiction , in which...

I liked Newcastle as a city, on the whole, but the period I spent living there was pretty tough going. I moved there, maybe five years ago...

Given the fact that not a lot has been happening this week and that I've been suffering with some kind of quirky post-Fantasycon lurgy,...

Not that I've any right to moan, what with the book deal and all, but it's been a rubbish few months for short fiction sales.  And ...

I mentioned a few weeks back that I'd been approached by a student, named Heather Vann, who wanted permission to reprint my story Strive...

A couple of recent e-mails have got me thinking about the writing business, and how writers and their work are perceived.  One of them was p...

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...

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...