Month: May 2006

Keeping Up Appearances #2

That was fun! Invited to give a lecture on my writing and my Writers of the Future experience, I decided there wasn’t much need to talk about myself. Instead, I opened with the first four paragraphs of ‘Meeting the Sculptor’ (the first words out of my mouth), gave the briefest of introductions about who I […]

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36 Reflections

New Year’s Eve does nothing for me, but on my birthday, I always get a bit reflective. And this time, there’s rather a lot to reflect upon. As a matter of fact, it’s hard to believe all this good stuff happened in a single year of my life.

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Slush Party

I’ve just experienced one of the more unexpected and unusual effects of hanging out with one of the largest speculative fiction publishers in The Netherlands. I guess it’s also an effect of the whole Writers of the Future thing: being taken seriously by a publisher. Being a large specfic publisher in Holland means he’s got […]

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