by Neil | Apr 17, 2008 | Comment, Rejection, Thoughts, Writing
There has been considerably less blogging activity than I would have liked this week due to the day job being a bit needy at the moment. Anyway, I’ve wanted to post about this for a little while because I continue to be surprised by writers who moan about being...by Neil | Apr 6, 2008 | Books, Comment, Entertainment, Fiction, Neil Gaiman, Reading, Review, Thoughts
I read Odd and the Frost Giants yesterday as a break from labouring on The Woodsman. Something I could fall into for an hour in order to think about something else; no real intention to review it. Reviewing Neil’s work is hard because I am quite clearly and obviously...by Neil | Apr 5, 2008 | Books, Comment, Fiction, Reading, Review, Thoughts, Urban Fantasy
I’m generally speaking not a big fan of writers utilising successful, well-established, ideas and conceits as their central Big Idea for novels. On the face of it, that’s what Unlundun is: China’s version of Neverwhere. Albeit aimed at a younger audience. And a...by Neil | Mar 21, 2008 | Books, Comment, Entertainment, Reading, Review, Science Fiction, Thoughts
Spin was the second of the e-books released for free to Tor’s mailing list and I started reading it pretty much by accident having been caught short without a book on my commute home. Spin begins from a very simple – almost silly – premise. What would...by Neil | Mar 11, 2008 | Books, Comment, Reading, Review, Science Fiction, Thoughts
In what seems like contradiction, free is very much the current marketing buzzword for people trying to increase sales. Since Tor – in return for your email address – decided to release a book a week for free via their website it seems like everyone’s been...by Neil | Mar 10, 2008 | Comment, Fiction, Life, Personal, Thoughts, Writing
As has been alluded to a few times recently, I have been experiencing more than my fair share of writer’s block, that all pervading paralysing fear that the ideas will dry up and not a single interesting sentence will be transmitted to the page. This happens to...