Not, y'know, universally lovely things, though obviously a post of kittens and spaceships would be keen, but lovely things for me, lovely writing related things, which I fully intended to blog about in a more timely fashion but clearly that didn't happen so everything gets thrown in together, like a cake! A delicious, tasty cake…
Posh Mudcrabs
This should really be a post about Nine Worlds and/or Worldcon. It's not. It's a post about Posh Mudcrabs. Currently, my game of choice is Star Wars The Old Republic, which I love and adore and is letting me decorate houses at the moment, so I'm spending a lot of time killing Jedi, looting their…
Everything I Loved About Deep Breath
I wouldn't call this a review so much as a ramble. It got quite long: I loved rather a lot about Deep Breath, and what are blog posts for if not to natter on interminably without the cruel shackles of editorial oversight! Anticipation levels of self were Exceptionally High for this episode. Which was quite…
Nine Worlds Incoming!
Nine Worlds is coming up this Thursday! I'm obviously calm, collected, and completely organised. If you don't know about Nine Worlds it's a ridiculously fabulous convention held in London and encompasses all manner of geek culture, including literature, gaming, cosplay, fandom, some twenty-six other things (ish – can I count signings as their own track?),…
My Beautiful Loncon Schedule
Worldcon aka Loncon 3 is, terrifyingly, in two weeks time. Obviously, I'm completely organised and totally calm about that. Yes. Good. And I have a schedule! Of stuff! It's really awesome. Here it is: The Girls Who Waited Friday 19:00 - 20:00, Capital Suite 11 (ExCeL) Last year, in an essay for The Guardian, Anna…
Verity! Big Finish Round Table
This week's Verity! has three whole guests on it! Or two, if you think we cheated by including me. But two guests! All novel and exciting for us. And there's a competition, with prizes from Big Finish, ra! Behold: "We at Verity! often jabber on about Big Finish, but this time we thought we’d let…
Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories is out!
I received this very exciting package in the post last week: Rah! A Doctor Who story what I wrote, all real and on a CD with a cover and notes and things! There're also stories on there by the not-at-all intimidating company of Mark Ravenhill, Una McCormack, and Nev Fountain. And you too can have…
Continue reading ➞ Breaking Bubbles and Other Stories is out!
Breaking Bubbles Bits and Pieces
My Doctor Who audio from Big Finish, Breaking Bubbles, is out this month. Precisely when? Not a clue. But there are a couple of THINGS to do with it that of which at least one, I am assured, is yayful and lovely. Naturally, I lack the courage to look and/or listen to them without first…
Verity #45 and Other Fripperies
There are no fripperies in this post, sorry. Everything is a very proper and substantial thing, but I felt particularly keen on the word at time of writing, so a pox on meaning, it shall be in the title. Anyway, this week! Verity! At our forty-fifth ever-so-exciting episode: "It’s another villaintastic episode of Verity! This…
100 Stories, 100 Writers, 100 Years
Because we wouldn't want to forget that women have always written SFF, WOULD WE? 1915 – Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1916 – Five Generations Hence by Lillian B Jones 1917 – The Great Beast of Kaifu by Clotilde Graves 1918 – The Professor in Erin by L. McManus 1919 – When Dead Lips Speak…