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I got to the door quickly and he’d already walked away, he said he didn’t think I was in, a little more patience would be…

Astrud Gilberto died this week. I started writing the below post last year. Now seems an appropriate time to finish it. Getz/Gilberto I was going…

Ask anyone who knows anything about music and they’ll tell you: if you want to learn to play your instrument properly you need to learn…

On Monday night I watched Vermeer: the Greatest Exhibition. This is described as “a narrated private view of the largest Vermeer Exhibition in history, currently…

I’d always recommend joining a writers’ group. I think it’s a valuable experience no matter what your level of experience. If nothing else you get…

I was listening to the album Thriller by Michael Jackson when it occurred to me there was a time when the music didn’t exist. I…

Apologies for the gap in posts. I was on holiday in Athens. More on that in a later post. For the moment, though, you might…

I wrote my post last week knowing that Eric Brown had died. As the news had yet to be released I didn’t like to say…

I’m currently reading Queen Camilla by Sue Townsend (paid link). The book is a follow up to The Queen and I, in which the Royal…

I always think you can map a book to two axes: focus and travel. The more you move along one axis, the less you move…

Speaking of Roald Dahl, I’ve been re reading some of his short stories following the rewriting debate. I’d forgotten that he’d written SF. I’m thinking…

I’ve never had someone change my stories in a way that I disagree with. My work has been edited – of course it has. Editors…