When I was tiny, my Dad took me and my brother to a small computer trade show in our hometown. Even at such an early age I was already in love with gaming, so a room full of computers and games and demos felt like a little piece of heaven, but there I remember  something I didn't get with the local model shop where I bought my cassettes: atmosphere ( Read more... )

Jenny recently released a new piece of artwork, The Hunting of Ducks, inspired by her love of videogames and her studies of Egyptology:


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Amongst an otherwise fruitless weekend, I spent most of this morning booking trains for our Eastercon trip. Since I have a very understanding wife, we're going to be rolling the con up into our belated honeymoon, so it was awesome to take steps towards our trip, and even better was that after a bit of rail ticket-fu we ended up saving another £50 ( Read more... )

Hello Livejournal. Long time no see.

*awkward shuffle* *lowered gazes* *someone puts the kettle on and all's right with the world*

Anyway, I just dropped by to mention that there's a special extended festive podcast story up at Postcards From Lepari, titled Vidocq & the Thief of Joy. Please stop by and have a listen, and feel free to let me know what ( Read more... )

Things:

- My good friend and co-conspirator Gareth has just been shortlisted for the Wales Blog Awards for Best Writing, and if you were to pay a flying visit to I Saw Elvis I think you'd agree that it's pretty damn great. And if you do agree, it just so happens that there's a People's Choice award just begging for your vote: http://walesblogawards. ( Read more... )

After months of procrastination and practically giving up on the whole idea, after an epiphany last night I've just launched my new extra-short podcast fiction blog, Postcards From Lepari. The whole idea of this from the start was to act as a breeding ground for the development of my Lepari milieu, to generate regular drabble-length (or there about ( Read more... )

After about six months of frenzied (read: disorganised) organisation, a week and a half ago Jenny and I finally turned up at Craig Y Nos castle, filled a room with friends and family and got the deed done.
We actually turned up the night before - tradition going firmly out the ornate window of the bridal suite - and enjoyed a drink in the evening ( Read more... )

I was never a particularly sporty student. Going to school in Gloucester it was expected that you played rugby, cricket at a push, every Wednesday afternoon, neither of which I was very good at, so I was delighted in the last couple of years of school when we were given permission to take our Wednesday afternoon sports beyond the school field to ( Read more... )

Another couple of thousand words further along this morning; some of it being new stuff on the mechanists plotline - which I'm not 100% sure the endpoint of - and some being slight edits to the pre-draft for a scene.


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More work on WIP Book 2 this morning, including a certain amount of scavenging of the pre-draft:


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