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World Fantasy Con, Brighton, 31st October to 3rd November 2013
Thursday 31st October
My third convention in Brighton but my first World Fantasy event, I went along with my old friend and critiquing partner Sue Moorcroft (in case you don’t know her, I interviewed her here). She writes romantic fiction but is also a writing tutor, so came along for the experience of a big world con in a different genre ( Read more... ) -
In Portugal - A Real Life Ghost Story
In 1989, my friend Craig Tankard & I went on holiday to Portugal. Whilst there, we experienced something that, to this day, neither of can properly explain.
Mark Deniz’s Beyond Fiction website is having a Ghost Awareness Month and he invited me to write a blog entry for him, so I thought I’d publicly tell mine and Craig’s story.
All of this is true ( Read more... ) -
NewCon 5 (9/10th October 2010)
You know how sometimes you read a report and it appears as if the person wasn't at the event at all? This is one of those, I'm afraid - I had a great time, I met a lot of good people, I went to a reading but I didn't do any of the main panels. So other people might have far more accurate reports of the con than I do. Oh well, I had a good time ( Read more... ) -
FantasyCon report (17-19th September 2010), in Nottingham
After attending many Con’s in the past, only for the Saturday, I decided to push the boat out a bit and stay for the weekend. And I’m really glad I did. I caught the train up and found my hotel, the Plaza, immediately (and thank you so much to Mick Curtis & Gary Cole-Wilkin for suggesting it - lovely room, plenty of space, very close to the Con ( Read more... ) -
My blog round-up
Here's a round-up of recent entries at my blog, which resides at www.markwest.org.uk
"Come See My House In The Pretty Town" (come on, you knew the working title of 'david & the clowns' wasn't going to stick, didn't you?) has just winged its way over to the editors in-box and I await her decision with what approximates patience from me.
I like the ( Read more... ) -
Books up on eBay
After some quite considerable time away, I've decided to dabble once more in the eBay waters and have put 10 books up for sale (my shelves were getting seriously overloaded and these were the first cull casualties).
Apart from "The Birthing House" by Christopher Ransom, which is absolutely awful, the rest are decent enough books and all are in ( Read more... ) -
"Huxton" 2nd draft now completed
The second draft of “Huxton” is now done and off to a handful of pre-readers and so I await their feedback. I’ll read the draft to Alison over the weekend, so I can get a feel for the story-told, as opposed to the story-written and I’ll combine my thoughts, with those of the pre-readers, to come up with the third draft ( Read more... ) -
Sometimes, I do complete stuff
I’ve just completed the first draft of a short story that has the filename of “Huxton1” (I did think of a working title - “Mr Huxton Goes Camping” - but that seems counter-productive now) and I’m really chuffed. Why? Well, this is my first short story since “Risen Wife”, back in 2004 and came about because I realised that as a horror writer, I ( Read more... ) -
I'm at the BFS!
I now have a thread up at the British Fantasy Society Forums, as part of the Ask The Authors! boards, where you can apparently ask me anything, though I imagine it should be aimed towards the horror genre and/or writing.
Why not come along and say hello?
This is the direct link: http://www.britishfantasysociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=2373.0
