Blog Posts

  • One of Those Lovely European Moments

    On holiday recently I found myself on a bus supposedly travelling from Verona to Lake Garda. The heat was oppressive that day, the Veronese moved…

  • Worldcon 75

    I’m delighted to say that I’ll be attending Worldcon 75 in Helsinki

  • I Used to Worry About Finishing Stories…

    I’d plan them in minute detail, I’d obsess over the twists, the climax, the ending. And then I learned, as I’ve written in many other…

  • The Model Railway Men

    I stumbled across the ebook versions of the Model Railway Men novels on Amazon and bought them for old times sake. I loved the Model…

  • Six Tips on Writing Speech

    A pupil recently asked me about writing speech in stories…

  • The Manchester Arena

    I turned on the television on Tuesday morning to see a chicken being cooked. Two breathlessly enthusiastic Americans were discussing the flavours; the tenderness; exactly…

  • Silence

    My friend asked me to cover her duties as organist over Easter whilst she was trekking in Nepal. (I say trekking, she’s checking on the…

  • MyKitaab Podcast

    The mission of the MyKitaab podcast series is to help answer the question “I have written a book, how do I get it published in…

  • Microcosms

    Microcosms

    42 short shorts by Tony Ballantyne and Eric Brown

  • The Human Way

    The Human Way

    The Human Way: Analog March/April 2017

  • Six Reasons why Maintaining a Blog will make You a Better Writer

    It will make you write regularly It will make you finish something – you’re not a writer if you’re only producing half finished stories It…

  • WordPress Pharma Hack

    Someone kindly emailed me to point out that my writing site had been hacked. Links for Cialis were now appearing scattered throughout the text. A…