Category: conventions
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Revelling in the editor’s power
For ten years and more I’ve been writing stories, getting them critted by my local group, the Glasgow SF (where SF stands for Speculative Fiction, although it did start out as Science Fiction) Writers’ Circle and pinging them out willy-nilly into the universe and hoping that an editor will like them and publish them. To…
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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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Dreamin’
UPDATE: Now listed on Eibonvale’s website here. Now that I am almost recovered from the World Fantasy Hangover let me talk to you of cabbages and kings. Or possibly the single greatest thing that occurred to me there. The release of Caledonia Dreamin’. Caledonia Dreamin’ is an anthology of Strange Fiction based on Scots words…
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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…