'Gritty, grimy, decadent and compelling, the Venice of Grimwood’s imagination is teeming with scheming nobles and assassins... He might be beautiful, pale-skinned and an object of lust for Venice’s young women, but Grimwood’s Tycho, amnesiac and ancient, dog-toothed and deadly, is far removed from the rank-and-file vampires that have flooded fiction in the wake of Stephenie...
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Crack Angel was written for the bsfa Celebration book to commemorate fifty years of British science fiction, and now here it is recorded by the mavens at Dark Fiction Magazine and read brilliantly by David Moore. I based on Lester Dent's classic template for writing pulp fiction that sells, right down to using Eloise the monkey (read the template below) and referencing...
Thursday 03 February 18:00 - 19:00 London Megastore 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR Forbidden Planet is pleased to announce a double signing by Jon Courtenay Grimwood and Kate Griffin for their new titles The Fallen Blade and The Neon Court the Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London SE1 0UP on Thursday 3rd February from 6 – 7pm. ...
'Pounce on this one...' Really happy that the first pre-publication review for The Fallen Blade was a good one. I'm not allowed to quote the whole thing, sadly. So I'm going to cherry pick the two bits that I like the most. 'Alternate-world fantasy from the talented and versatile author of End of the World Blues (2007), wherein Marco Polo's family founded the dynasty...
Shouldn't just send you off to someone else's site but I'm going to. Del Larkin Smith's wordpunk piece on what software and hardware writers use is interesting, not just because it lists my slightly weird collection of laptops and software. www.wordpunk.co.uk/ I find writing software fascinating. So much so that trawling the interweb looking for new examples gets in the way of...
