Articles from January 2010

I have been working through some ideas of how to portray hell in my novel Hell has its Demons. If you read the synopsis of the story you’ll have noticed that it ends with a journey by some of the main characters into hell itself. As the story is set in the middle ages there is [...]

Great post this from Charles Stross that  sums up a lot of my own badly expressed thoughts about the perils of free/open access content. At the end of the day if no-one pays for content, then why is it going to be produced. Also similar theme alluded to in Peter F. Hamilton‘s Misspent Youth where [...]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8441813.stm Witchcraft is still alive and well and causing massive suffering in some African countries.

Just came across news about this new series of books called the Rain Wilds Chronicles. The first book in the series is due to be published on 26 January 2010 in the US and it’s called Dragon Keeper: Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles It appears to have been published in the UK already [...]

Here’s a bit more information about Season of the Witch, although there’s not much available apart from the synopsis and cast list at the moment. Apparently some screenings happened in December 2009, but no reviews yet. The film is due out in March 2010. Synopsis: Nicolas Cage stars as a 14th century Crusader who returns [...]

With reference to my last post about Devices and Desires, the characters have become a lot clearer and different for me now – the realisation for me happened after about 300 pages. I won’t say how exactly but the main characters slowly seem to accrue more differentiation in their manner, style and motivation. Perhaps the [...]