I assume they're faster anyway. This is because I had my first podcast recordings yesterday since I had NEW INTERNET installed. And it was amazing. Uploading, instead of taking a seriously cantakerous hour, was over in 3 mins, and that was for two podcasts, *and* the Skype call didn't even lag. It was ridiculously awesome.…
I think I can blame this on ComicCon
I was flicking through lists of San Diego ComicCon panels on the YouTubes looking for anything of interest to me that wasn't Doctor Who, and I failed really quite badly. (The two Doctor Who panels are however excellent and I'm totally not saying this just cause three-quarters of both panels were Scottish. And that Moffat's…
Down and Safe
The first episode of this shiny new podcast that I'm on came out last week: Down and Safe, an episode-by-episode look at Blake's 7. B7, in case you don't know, is a smashing BBC sci-fi show that aired from 1978 to 1981, and combined awesome banter and fabulous costumes with broken morality compasses and spaceships.…
Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who
I'm in this rather fab new book that's coming out on June 4th: The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who, an anthology of short stories and SCIENCE. And I may have just a *smidgen* of difficulty in mentioning it in a cool and professional manner because I got to write a short story about the Twelfth…
Podcastly Podcastings
I was on two - count em, TWO - whole podcasts last week and neither one was Verity! and only one was about Doctor Who, because I'm a multi-facted and layered individual of ENIGMATICNESS. One of these fab podcasts is the ever so brilliant Reality Bomb, where Mr Burk and Mr Kennard let me ramble…
May the Fourth Be With You!
You have no idea how hard I'm trying not to be fannish about Star Wars. It's for my own good. I quit The Old Republic MMORPG cold turkey at the end of last year because I need More Hours in the day, and that's been swell and all, but I really miss it, and I'm…
Companion Piece launch day!
Today is the official release date for Companion Piece, an essay anthology about the humans, aliens and tin dogs of Doctor Who, edited by myself and Liz Barr. It's got over thirty essays on the companions of Doctor Who, from award-winning and New York Times best-selling authors, to fans for whom this is their first…
Ten Years of New Who
Shockingly, terrifyingly, it's been a decade since the new series of Doctor Who began. I'm trying to remember if I ever imagined that New Who would last ten years, back when the new series was first announced. I suspect not. I think I was so caught up in the excitement of having all those new…
Cranky Ladies of History, ahoy!
As we all know from, um, watching movies and stuff, timeliness is for losers. Thus, despite being released on International Women's Day, it's only now that I write this blog post on the ridiculously gorgeous anthology Cranky Ladies of History edited by Tansy Rayner Roberts and Tehani Wessely, in which I have a story, 'Little…
Ten Random But Excellent Facts About Historical Women for International Women’s Day
1 – If Meryt-Neith had a man's name she'd be regarded as a pharaoh of the First Dynasty of ancient Egypt (ruling circa 3000 BCE) and the world's first know queen regnant. But since she has a women's name many historians don't consider there to be enough evidence to say with reasonable certainty that she…
Lizbeth Myles 