Hello from London,As I mentioned last week, this will be the last weekly newsletter, and from here on you will receive these emails fortnightly.The feedback I received on this move was generally positive. I have a deep respect for those of you subscr...
Hello from London,I started writing this newsletter during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stuck at home, I had the opportunity to focus on my readers and my writing in a way that I hadn't before.The pandemic, and it's associated lifestyle changes, is gradual...
Hello from London,Some time ago, wanting the satisfaction of seeing some finished work, I turned my attention to short stories, while still working on longer works in the background.It's a very different form of writing. "Obviously", you might say, b...
Hello from London,After a forced covid-related absence from my own writing, I returned to it afresh. Unfortunately, as often happens, I suddenly decided I didn't like some parts of my Emily Voss episode 5 draft, and promptly threw in into the bin, fo...
Hello from London,When I wrote last week that I was expecting Covid-19 test results, I was almost certain they'd come back negative. As it turns out, that was just wishful thinking. Less than 24 hours after I'd written those words, I'd received a pos...
Hello from London,Not for the first time, I find myself wondering how to turn the current pandemic into worthwhile speculative fiction. As I've written before, what's happening today would have made a good dystopian fiction only two short years ago....
Hello from London,What a pretentious title, right?"The writer's journey" sounded a little less campy than "What I've learned so far..."I'd been writing short stories for a long time, and scratching out story ideas for even longer, before I started wr...
Hello from London,Real work has been getting the better of me this last week. It's a pain when the reality intrudes on the fantasy worlds I'm building, but the real world sometimes sets priorities in ways that are hard to ignore.That said, I'm approa...
Hello from London,It's been a rough start to the year. Let's hope the news cycle calms down a bit and current events stop invading every other space. It's been hard to get any writing done when current events result in a near-obsessive refreshing of...
Hello from London,In a year we will likely be remembering January 6th, the second time since 1800 that the Capitol has been occupied. Last time, it was destroyed, but democracy and a sense of American identity rose stronger from the ashes. This time,...
