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I have been told that I can make this official – The Mirage Makers trilogy has been bought by Orbit UK. That’s right, after 8 years away, I will be back in the UK market next year. So all you … Continue reading
See also Part 1; Part 2; and Part 3. So there I am, with a finished version of the story that makes me reasonably happy. Remember, parts of this book have already been rewritten several times. So, what’s next? Next … Continue reading
Tomorrow I’ll do another segment on “How I write a Novel”. In the meantime, another couple of photos from the Crocker Range, Sabah, Borneo… I was remembering today what was probably my earliest introduction to books about Sabah: “The Land … Continue reading
The hotel was at 1,550m; nights are cool or even downright cold. Our room cost 50 Malaysian ringgit for one night. That’s about USD 18.00. There were candles on the table – electricity only ran from dusk to midnight, it … Continue reading
I am working on a project at the moment that has, as one of its aims, the increase of tourist arrivals into the country.This last weekend, we drove up into the mountains east of Kota Kinabalu and I made a … Continue reading
The usual Sunday grammar or style tip… I have just been through my copyedit of “The Shadow of Tyr“. And I bless my wonderful copy editor who has the eyesight of an eagle after a mouse when it comes to … Continue reading
…or better still, in your local speciality bookstore in the US, don’t forget to buy The Tainted. Yes, that’s right, the last book of The Isles of Glory is now out in the USA. And I promise you, it won’t … Continue reading
I fell to thinking about this after reading Jonathan Strahan’s blog. Not which writers exactly, but the “unanswerableness” of the question. If you look at my blog profile, you will see that I didn’t answer those questions about “what is … Continue reading
And no, I didn’t mean our collective ages. But this KL group has been going without a break for over 30 years, and one of the members was there at the beginning. There can’t be too many book groups in … Continue reading
Over on the Deep Genre site for 25th June, there’s an interesting discussion going on about why fantasy outsells science fiction. They had some excellent theories, many of which might explain the difference. Here’s my (expanded) comment: With fantasy, it … Continue reading