It’s been since the 5th Element that Luc Beeson has done actual science fiction, and now the famed director is back with Lock-Out, an action thriller that seems to have a little more of the Transporter thrown into the mix. But just how much of the pl…

As well as Science Fiction and Fantasy I also love many works of classic literature, and probably my favourite author is Leo Tolstoy – specifically his great works like War and Peace and Anna Karenina, but also some of his lesser known fiction like The Cossacks. To that end I have started populating some information [...]

Weird and unlikely things happen when you distribute your work for free over the internet. And it seems that my story The Human Factor has been downloaded from Feedbooks and uploaded to Scribd. I’m not sure how I feel about this. I guess the guy who did just liked the story, which is good and [...]

Ghostmaker by Dan Abnett is the first Warhammer or Warhammer 40k tie-in novel that I have read. When I was a teenager I was an enthusiastic player of Warhammer and to a lesser extent Warty Thou as we we called Warhammer 40K. The Black Library books have now become a publishing force in their own [...]

As well as going over a 1,000 downloads this weekend, my short story The Human Factor, has also got onto the second page of results for Science Fiction in Feedbooks! I guess getting higher up the most popular list for certain tags has probably increased the popularity. I’ve certainly seen downloads actually increase the longer [...]

I am really enjoying using Feedbooks over the last couple of days. My first story, The Human Factor, has now had over 80 downloads, which I think is fairly awesome really. It does seem that Science Fiction seems to do quite well. My other stories, The Honor of Rome and Tale of Tiel, which are [...]

Had some fun yesterday publishing two of my older short stories on Feedbooks. Both The Human Factor and The Honor of Rome never found publishing homes, so I decided there was no harm in publishing them via Feedbooks. It’s quite interesting as you immediately get to see how many people have downloaded your titles, and [...]

The Bookseller released some statistics today on the top 100 selling authors in the UK market from 2000 to 2009. I have extracted the fantasy authors from their data to put together the following list: 1          Rowling, J K                    27,556,478 units, revenue of  £215,876,812.77 6          [...]

A bit of a rant about Genre As a participant in some online critiquing networks I come across a fair amount of unpublished stories written by authors, like myself, who want to get publish. These networks tend to be genre orientated – so for fantasy and science fiction for instance. I hope I’m not slagging [...]

The latest Inside the Blogosphere asked: What are the worst or most disappointing endings in science fiction/fantasy novels? Why? Here’s my, no doubt blasphemous, suggestion that the worst ending is for The Lord of the Rings: “It pains me to say this, as it’s one of my favourite books, but one of the most disappointing [...]