There are some jobs you just don’t want to be given because you don’t want them to be necessary, ever… Writing Rob Holdstock's obituary for the Guardian was one of these. In the 24 hours after he died hundreds, if not thousands, of people tweeted and blogged and facebooked about the man, others simply put up stark little paragraphs in memorial, because anything else was...
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Do we have to like the characters we write and do our readers have to like them also? The question came from a review for my partner's new novel, Stepmothers Support Group , where one of the reviewers disapproved of two of the main male characters, because both behaved badly towards the women they were with. One, still in his teens, and emotionally young,...
What Is 'Last Drink Bird Head'? That’s the catalyst editors Ann and Jeff VanderMeer provided to over 80 writers in creating this unique anthology. The result? Last Drink Bird Head is a blues musician, a performance artist, a type of alcohol, a town in Texas, and even a song sung by girl scouts in Antarctica... One take/no edit Flash Fiction for charity at its finest (with a launch...
random pretty Venice photograph taken with iPhone late at night from the quayside near San Marco. Okay, that's enough excuses as to why the quality is crap. Still tells me what my hero sees though... Bet you can't spot the German assassin. No, he can't either!
Onibaba is set in the Japanese civil war of the 14th Century. If you go to IMDb and look up Onibaba the trivia will tell you two things. 1) It was refused classification by the English censor in 1965 because of the violence and nudity; but was passed in 1968, when it was approved with an X certificate with cuts. 2) The demon mask used in Onibaba inspired William Friedkin, the...
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