Last Resort is a book that I had to write. It came to me while I was writing the Far Coast series and grew from there. What I found fascinating was that line, which publishers love so much, between one genre and another. I can't get my imagination to fit into a pigeonhole. It made me want to explore the shading of one thing into another. And while the whole book is SF, it does leave you understanding why it could easily not be. Of course it does depend on your definitions and

I hadn't realised that it was almost a year since my last post. Partly, I have to admit, it was that the viewing numbers on my posts seem limited to my own views and the odd misclick. But I wouldn't want anyone to think the site was dead. I went through all the books recently, adding an afterword that tells about the next book and provides a hyperlink for those reading on devices. I haven't figured out how to make it work for people reading hard copy yet, putting a QR code se

A lot of people, especially those who have read my books, will be aware of Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is...

I was reading a book the other day, one by a well known and respected author, when I stopped. Events had happened which went so far...

Actually quite a few books. Possibly if we had take more stock we would have sold more. But the main thing was we met people, not to...

I think the most appropriate expression is 'Eeeek!' I will be taking a table at the MCM Birmingham Comic Con which is on at the NEC from...

By which, to be clear, I mean the stuff you use on furniture, and not the inhabitants of Poland. I write rather quickly. The new Children...

With the publication of the first two books of the Far Coast I feel the need to explain why they have all come at once. And if that...

This issue has only come to light on the Far Coast. The world of the Tuatha De Danaan was inherently a high-tech one. Even those stories...

It seems to be a received wisdom that writing is an architectural endeavour where the superstructure can only be emplaced once the...

In The Far Coast we met the Adventures of Dangerous Jack, a page-ripping bodice-turner of very little literary standing. It is a fiction...