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Wolfenstein: The New Order is a video game developed by Machine Games and released in 2014. It’s a first-person shooter set in an alternate history where Nazi Germany…
The Manchester Speculative Fiction Group, of which I’m a member, is producing a showcase anthology. We are currently looking for writers to submit stories for inclusion. The anthology…
I was invited to read at Blackwell’s Bookshop in Manchester recently. Here I am reading from chapter seven of A Kill in the Morning. Thanks to Ian Carrington…
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare was written by G. K. Chesterton and published in 1908. Ostensibly about a secret policeman investigating anarchists, it becomes a surreal and philosophical novel….
Spark was written by ‘John Twelve Hawks’ (a pseudonym) and published in 2014. It’s a science-fiction thriller about an assassin who literally has no emotions. Spark: Logline In…
First an analogy to help understand why dealing with criticism as an author is important: Writing a book is like having a baby. You’ve spent years getting your…
The Hive Construct was written by Alexander Maskill and published in 2014. It is his début novel and won the 2013 Terry Pratchett Prize. Terry Pratchett Prize I normally only review…
My website has been shortlisted for the Blog North Awards! The Blog North Awards “celebrate the best of Northern England’s independent publishing”. This website is on the shortlist…
The Night of Wenceslas, written by Lionel Davidson and published in 1960, was Davidson’s début novel and won several awards, including the Crime Writer’s Association Gold Dagger. Davidson went on to…
The Sound of His Horn, written by ‘Sarban’ (the pen name of British writer John William Wall) and published in 1952 was one of the first alternate history novels set…