I’m embarrassingly new to Bas Lag. I’m no stranger to Mieville’s works — Embassytown remains one of the best science fiction novels I’ve...

I first came across this book a little while ago. It looked like a nice, short, self-contained piece of fiction, written in the 1950s at...

Dying is hell; solving your own murder is purgatory. All right! Just finished this last night, after having rattled through the last 50...

This is the first book in the third trilogy of Dan Abnett’s Inquisitorial “trilogy of trilogies”, the first two being Eisenhorn and...

I recently hit about 130k on the first draft. I’m doing something I haven’t done before with this draft; I’m actually not going to write...

I hit 120,000 words on the first draft of book 2 last night. Progress is slowing thanks to a lack of planning for these final chapters; I...

You may remember, my legions of followers, that I mentioned I was writing a novel called "Emperor's Justice" and that I didn't want to...

In the time-honoured tradition of blogs everywhere, I've let this fall by the wayside. This is because whilst I have been working on a...

I think I’ve said this multiple times over the course of my blog posts, but I’ve been reading the Gaunt’s Ghosts series for about 15...

I never really did a proper announcement for the (Amazon Kindle) release of Earth Remembers. Sadly, writing about WW2 in spaaaace where...

Earth Remembers is nearly finished; I have the artwork and I'm currently editing the penultimate chapter. I actually still have to write...

So draft one is done at around 66,000 words. I expect this to increase to about 70 / 75,000 with the first redraft. I'm about a 3rd of...

Still going, very slowly the last month or so thanks to my real life day job getting squarely in the way. However made some decent...

Quick update - tipped 51,000ish words. Slow progress at the moment due to various non-writing-related factors, but I am pleased with the...

Blasting out the words this week. Approaching 40k all in. Here's another excerpt to keep those appetites whetted--as usual presented...

Still getting on with this - May has been filled with holidays and other social events which have really eaten into my writing time (I...

Time to share a little snippet of what I've been working on. "Earth Remembers" (working title) is set in an alternate mid-20th Century in...