Golly, is it that long since I last posted? Whoops. I’ve been quite busy over at TV Today, as well as implementing quite a few technology infrastructure changes at The Stage which nobody else will notice (other than a substantially faster web server with — touch wood — no regular outages). And lots of other […]
November 24, 2007 – 10:46 am
As I said back in October, my short story, Tell Me You Love Me is going to be included in the forthcoming anthology, Doctor Who Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas.
The Big Finish page for the book now includes an image, as well as a free PDF of one story from the collection — […]
October 16, 2007 – 7:33 am
It may be a tough question to answer, but I love Neil Gaiman’s attempt:
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it’s about and why you’re doing it and what […]
October 2, 2007 – 12:08 pm
I’ve mentioned bits and pieces about getting a short story published, without going into further detail. Now, though, my publisher has announced full details, so I can officially go public. My story, Tell Me You Love Me, is going to be published in Big Finish’s forthcoming short story anthology, Short Trips: The Ghosts of […]
September 28, 2007 – 10:42 pm
As I mention on my About page, I’ve recently been lucky enough to have received a commission for my first professional piece of fiction — a short story for an anthology based around a certain TV show.
The story itself has been approved, is currently being typeset and the (small but historic) cheque has long since […]
September 5, 2007 – 12:48 pm
So last night I was at the press night for All About My Mother, the Old Vic’s new adaptation of Pedro Almodovar’s classic film. My review’s online now, and will be in print in next week’s issue of The Stage. In the meantime, the condensed version:
Oh. Dear. God.
It got three stars in the […]
August 24, 2007 – 2:38 pm
As the marketing machine for Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials films cranks up, the website gives you the chance to discover what your daemon would look like. You start off by answering 20 questions about your own personality, after which your daemon is revealed. Rather cleverly, the type of daemon isn’t set in stone: for […]
August 17, 2007 – 12:17 am
Links to each weekly review I wrote for The Stage’s TV blog, TV Today, of BBC1’s Saturday evening theatre audition show, Any Dream Will Do.
August 16, 2007 – 8:14 pm
If you’re in Edinburgh this weekend — which, sadly, I’m not — and are in any way shape or form into Doctor Who — which, happily, I am — then make sure you go along to a one-off charity event in aid of ACCORD, the hospice where David Tennant’s mother worked and, recently, passed away.
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August 14, 2007 – 6:44 pm
This was my entry for a recent Big Finish short story open submissions competition. The brief - “Doctor Who changed my life”.