Category: blether
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Incoherent thoughts on a great weekend
Some final thoughts on #Glasgow2024 Worldcon before I get too distracted back into the real world.
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Worldcon 2024, a schedule
It’s Worldcon time, my second in attendance in Glasgow and my fifth overall and this time I’ve volunteered for, and been given, some things to do on the programme. So, if you are coming to Glasgow for it, here is where you can find me: Thursday 8th August, 19:00 hours, Alsh 2 – Languages of…
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A face for radio
This writing thing has led to many odd things but, in what is probably the strangest, today I find myself on a podcast. Speculative Spaces Podcast. Local great person, Beth Faulds, has started doing a podcast where she chats to writers (local at present but she’d love to branch out so if you know anyone…
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You, sir, are a rumplefyke.
It was Eastercon at the weekend and, before the happy memories fade, I’ll try to get a few of them down. 1) Being very busy. This was certainly one of the most jam-packed conventions I’ve been to. There were many points on the programme where I would have happily gone to multiple items. I…
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The Eastercon Of Doing Things
It has been a while since I last posted and, with Eastercon fast gambolling towards me I felt I really ought to do an update. Not much to say on the writing front. Much writing is ongoing but no new acceptances. I am building up a nice pile of stories which are either out for…
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2013, the year of the Purple Patch
It being the traditional time of the year for a bit of retrospection I think it is time to take stock and be amazed. I’ve always played with writing but a couple of years ago I decided to step it up and show stuff to the Glasgow Science Fiction Writer’s Circle. Lots of work later…
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World Fantasy Con, or How To Drink Your Way To Fame
I’m on the train leaving Brighton and World Fantasy Con. This is my first Fantasy Con and the po-faced nature of some of the publicity had made me worry it was a bit staid. I could not have been more wrong. I had a brilliant time. Every day was busy and every night long and…