I’ll be at “The Author visits” all week, the first stop on a blog tour for Random, the first book in The Were Chronicles, my new YA series. There will…Continue readingMeet the Author
We moved into a peculiar house. The downstairs area, a “daylight basement”, was completely unfinished — concrete floors, no ceiling, open to the dirt at the back of the house.…Continue readingWhat are you hiding?
To celebrate Banned Books Week, Powell’s Books found a bunch, well 33, that THE MAN doesn’t want you to read. Fight the power! Read the books! Via static.parade.condenast.com And Tango…Continue readingBan Those Books!
Mainstream science fiction has been pretty terrible at populating its worlds with anyone other than straight white dudes, Devon Maloney writes at The Cut.Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and others wrote…Continue readingFeminist SF, really?
Many years ago, I went to visit the grave of J. R. R. Tolkien in Wolvercote Cemetery in Oxford. It took some finding in amogst the sea of…Continue readingFamous Last Words
We are living in a science fiction novel. Is our species evolving into a new superorganism taking over Earth? Gaia Vince thinks so. At BBC.com he makes the provocative argument…Continue readingAre we the enemy?
Writing for the future Margaret Atwood has just been named as the first contributor to an astonishing new public artwork, The Future Library project, Alison Flood reports at The Guardian.…Continue readingIn 100 years…
It started last night. He turned up in my dream, Chalky, the protagonist of my current WIP. He’s nineteen years old, pushing twenty. He’s a kid who has had a…Continue readingA character tells me off
If you could read one a day…well, it would be an interesting challenge anyhow. Daniel Dalton of BuzzFeed made the picks. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt: The beloved fable about…Continue readingCan you read a novel a day?