THE DOCTOR: Books!  People never really stop loving books.  The 51st Century: by now you've got holovids, direct-to-brain downloads, fiction mists... but you need the smell.  The smell of books, Donna.  Deep breath...

(from Doctor Who Silence in the Library)

I've loved books for as long as I remember.  I was only recounting at home here the other day ( Read more... )

I commented recently over on Ricky Ross' blog for his weekly show Another Country, with airs Friday nights from 8pm on BBC Radio Scotland (and comes highly recommended for any lovers of Americana and alt. Country out there).

I figured I would post a link to that as it offers a teaser on what I'm considering as a potential story for any follow-up ( Read more... )

So here's a little teaser for the forthcoming book release, an alternate history anthology, over at our homepage.  More on that in the coming days and weeks.  For the time being, you can also get updates from us over on Twitter (where we tend to tweet all kinds of stuff, some of it related to the types of fiction we publish, some of it less so... ( Read more... )

This seems like such an apt song to me given where my life is at of late. Take a listen yourself to "All My Trust I Place in You", a great first single from the upcoming album "The Great Lakes" from McIntoshRoss. The single is out on 21st September and the album on 28th, just one week later.

Take a listen and prepare to be beguiled:


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"No fun? Well, maybe it's just a sign of growth, y'know, 'cause hey, all artists have to suffer... What's art, Holling, huh? Is a Da Vinci art, Dada art? If you wrap up the whole Reichstag in toilet paper is that art? ... Alright, you've got a very basic problem, Holling. You're confusing product with process. Most people when they criticise, ( Read more... )

Bernard: Joel, you mind if I shared an observation?

Joel: No, not at all. I'd be delighted.

Bernard: You're in the throes of existential angst.

Joel: Come again?

Bernard: Well, this desperate need for company, for something to fulfil your time. You're staring into your own grave.

Joel: I am?

Bernard: Yes. Take a look at your ( Read more... )

Some time ago, I prepared an entry for the BBC's End Of Story competition, wherein entrants were invited to complete a short story begun by one of eight renowned authors in 1,200 words or less.

Even having chosen the story that most appealed to me -- Dryad by Joanne Harris, an unlikely tale about a woman falling in love with a tree -- I found this ( Read more... )

"Wine talks. Everyone knows that. Look around you. Ask the oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It talks. It ventriloquizes. It has a million voices. It unleashes the tongue, teasing out secrets you never meant to tell, secrets you never even knew. It shouts, rants, whispers. It speaks of ( Read more... )

The Library Of Unwrittwen Books calls itself "a collection of possible books." Culled from transcripts of interviews, it records for posterity the ideas for books people would like to write but recognise they likely never can or will. Each idea, be it personal memory, wild fantasy or the mere barest bones of plot, is transcribed from interviews ( Read more... )

It's no exaggeration to say that I was thrilled when dixon recently asked me to become the first Assistant Editor for Revelation, the magazine of Apocalyptic art and literature from his very own Fourth Horseman Press. It's a project I've followed and contributed to with much interest since its conception almost a year ago, and a place where you can ( Read more... )