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…
Scribe Award Nomination and SDCC and Uncanny Magazine, hurrah!
Some lovely news yesterday, when I discovered I was nominated for a Scribe Award! These awards are for writing , I was nominated for my Doctor Who audio, Peake Season. It's a Fourth Doctor tale featuring Mervyn Peake as his temporary companion after the Doctor mistakes him for JRR Tolkien. (Yes, it's meant to be…
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An Ode to Peter Cushing
I didn't write this. ChatGPT did. Because if you have an AI Chatbot, obviously the first thing you should do is to ask it to write odes, and I am overly delighted with the general results of these terrible poems about my favourite things. Oh Peter Cushing, the master of the screen With piercing gaze…
The Wreck of the Monreith
On Monday, I made the decision to go paddling through some icy sea water. For I was at a local beach where if the tide is out, you can see a wreck, and if it is at low tide, it's possible to walk out to that wreck. Spot the wreck! What isn't possible is walking…
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