This Writing Life

The fancy thoughts of novellist Ian Hocking

Tag: Déjà Vu

Stories That Span Books

In the context of some complaints about the lateness of George R. R. Martin’s next book, which is one in a series, novelist Charles Stross offers some insight into the writing of book-spanning stories.

Twittering through Time

What is Twitter? Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook. Via Wikipedia You’ll have [...]

Pull!

Michael Stephen Fuchs – whose rather good novels I have reviewed for Pulp.net and on this blog – has written an article for the manfully-named www.shotsmag.co.uk. He writes about the difference between British and American authors in their treatment of guns. In summary, the Brits are less expert. I’ve made my own, modest contribution to [...]

Déjà Vu is back!

No, this isn’t Deja Two (The Sequel) – but there’s a second-hand copy going on Amazon.co.uk [UPDATE: make that two!] and it doesn’t cost five grand. For all those who’ve emailed me for a copy of Déjà Vu (both of you), here’s your chance to snap one up!