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LXXI The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all they ...

Someone is meddling with time. That means that when an Aztec warrior ventures into a long abandoned Exxilon spaceship, he isn't instant...

My interview last month with Sefi Atta, author of A Bit of Difference , is now available in full on YouTube. The interview was part of Macfe...

Various people recommended this captivating novel in which I’ve been completely immersed. That’s fitting, because it’s all about the solace ...

Issue 43 The new issue of free online Doctor Who fanzine Whotopia*  is now available, and includes a tribute to the late actor William Russe...

I'm interviewed by Nancy Norbeck on the latest episode of the Follow Your Curiosity podcast, which you can find on YouTube and all thes...

Bestselling author Athena Liu asks her friend June Hayward to look over a manuscript she has written using an old, manual typewriter - the o...

Out now, two new documentaries tell the story of the original  Doctor Who novels published 1991-2005. A load of editors and authors (includi...

My book  David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television is one of 24 titles longlisted for best non-fiction (long) in this year...

I chatted to Kenny Smith for the latest episode of the Power of 3 podcast. As well as asking me about my new book  David Whitaker in an Exci...

Watching the glorious  The Daleks in Colour  last night, I was especially struck by the bleakness of the story and world, a tale of nuclear ...

I said in reviewing Martin Edwards' The Life of Crime last month that Patricia Highsmith had been "smuggling her snails in her bra...

Last week I hosted an event for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain with the last two winners of our Best First Novel Award - Aamina Ah...

I've had a brilliant long weekend in Los Angeles as a guest at the Gallifrey One convention, catching up with lots of old pals, meeting ...

This massive history of crime fiction and its creators, from William Godwin to PD James, is brilliant, rich and absorbing. It's especial...

Having so admired Hermione Lee's biography of Penelope Fitzgerald , I was keen to hear - and thieve from - her insights more generally o...

On Monday night I attended the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards 2023 , having run the team behind the First Novel Award. Huge congratu...

The lovely lot at Ten Acre Films have officially announced my forthcoming biography of David Whitaker, the original story editor of Doctor ...

I first read Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983) and its sequel, Which Lie Did I Tell?  (2000), around the time I went freelance in 2002, ...

Dr and me, about 2002 Twenty years ago this evening I took the Dr - though she was not then a Dr - to the pub to pitch a modest proposal: I ...