Usually I try to write something at the end of/very beginning of the year as some sort of vague reflectiveness on the past year. This feels a bit late. And it's really not reflecting all that much on the previous year. But I still wanted to write something to mark the existential despair of having…
Author: Lizbeth Myles
Writer, podcaster. Likes Doctor Who a lot. And spaceships generally. And cake.
An Exciting and Innovative New Way to Rate Horror Films
CW: This post is about dog deaths in films. A few months ago I finally got over my childhood fear of The Amityville Horror and actually watched it. And I loved it. Then I watched the remake, and hated it with a burning passion in the way many people hate on a remake of a…
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Glasgow Worldcon 2024
As is traditional, I'm making this post in a very timely fashion; a mere three month after this year's Worldcon has concluded. Well done, me. In case you don't know what Worldcon is, it is a yearly science-fiction convention, and every year it takes place in a different city around the world. And this year…
Doctor Who Goth Opera Is Out!
In my usual timely fashion I'm making the post about my latest work a week or two after in came out. The classic Doctor Who novel Goth Opera, written by Paul Cornell (that guy I do Hammer House of Podcast with; he may also have written some telly, and comics, and books, and radio), is…
The Five Best Lighthouses of All the Lighthouses
Lighthouses are awesome. They are such pure buildings, all noble and humanitarian, meant to protect and guide. They are beacons of hope, literally, metaphorically. When France and Britain were at war (again) at the end of the 17th century a French privateer took engineer Henry Winstanley prisoner while he was working on the first lighthouse…
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The Sinking of the Princess Victoria
On January 31st 1953 the United Kingdom experienced one of its deadliest maritime disasters when the Princess Victoria attempted to make the crossing from her home port of Stranraer in Scotland, to Larne in Northern Ireland. It's a short route, less than 45 miles, and a pleasant journey in good weather, but this crossing was…
Heading to LA – Gallifrey One’s Miracle on 34th Street
It's less than a week till this year's Gallifrey One convention, and I'm faffing around trying to finish packing. I'm heading over a few days early for a bit of theme park-ing and catching up with non-Gally friends, before diving into what I've no doubt will be another amazing convention. Not sure how many I've…
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Audio Adaptation of Goth Opera out in July!
Yesterday I logged onto Twitter to discover that my audio adaptation of Goth Opera had just been announced (as a lowly writer, Twitter is my main resource of finding out what stuff I wrote is coming out.) It's had a pretty amazing response, and it's wonderful to see how many people are excited about a…
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Wild Blue Yonder and Gallifrey One
A quick hurrah for tonight's most excellent Doctor Who, Wild Blue Yonder! Magnificent in so many ways, and pandering to my love of Exploring A Mysterious Creepy Spaceship something rotten. It was bizarre to have monstrous moments that scared the dickens out of me in In The Mouth of Madness, a film I first saw…
Verity Podcast is back!
I mean, yes, Doctor Who was back too, which was, probably, in the grand scheme of things, slightly more of an event, I SUPPOSE. But still. After a hiatus of ten months, Verity! podcast is back with an epic chat about The Star Beast. Deb, Kat, Lynne, Tansy and I got together to record our…
