This Writing Life

This is lovely news. The reviewer who gave me a 5-star rating on the Red Adept Review blog has nominated Déjà Vu as one of the best science fiction novels of 2011. It’s a great honour.

A heads-up from Ben Johncock tells me that no less than Nicholas Clee has been writing in the New Statesman about the transition from tangible to electronic books. (I’ve been struggling to find an official link to the piece; here’s an unofficial-looking one.) It’s fair to say that Nicholas Clee is traditional in his perspective. [...]

This is, I think, the first non-customer review of Déjà Vu for its current edition. Red Adept is a site where authors can submit their works for review. The administrators make clear that reviews are non-debatable, and always publish them to the book’s Amazon page after one month. I like the breakdown into ‘plot’, ‘character [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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!