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Yesterday I enjoyed an excursion – my first full day off in some weeks. M’colleague M had promised some kind of day trip some 11 months, six...

The Dr has a thing for travelogues from yesteryear, and somewhen I managed to find her Seven Years in Tibet . It’s a battered, well-thumbed ...

Today I have written the whole of a story (though I'd about 800 words in my notebook as of Saturday). It contains the words "pollot...

Watched Human Nature at a chum's house last night, and general consensus was hooray! - even from those who've not been wowed by Ne...

With the gracious permission of its author, here's the rejection letter I received for my first ever Doctor Who novel submission, 13 yea...

The final part of my first ever pitch for a Doctor Who novel, from 13 years ago. ( Part one here .) Episode Four The Cyberleader gives order...

Part three of my first ever pitch for a Doctor Who novel, from 13 years ago. ( Part one here .) Episode Three With the time-travellers at gu...

Part two of my first ever pitch for a Doctor Who novel, from 13 years ago. ( Part one here .) Episode Two At the last minute, the King inter...

Have been busy, sorry. But I've done all my reading for the Doctor Who short story competition , and we should have announcments soon. A...

In between all the copious reading, I have sometimes escaped my pod. The Dr took me on Friday night for ramen and A Matter of Life and Death...

New up on the Big Finish website are the cover and a sample chapter from new Benny novel, The Two Jasons . The book went to press on Tuesday.

Much as it might be cheering on the opposition, you can hear the first installments of all-new Blake's 7 at scifi.co.uk . That's the...

The official Droo website now has a funky comic maker wotsit . Cobble together your own novel graphics and sequential arts. You can surely d...

Ten years ago tomorrow I went to the Manopticon 5 convention in Manchester – which is where I first got to meet famous people who are now my...

Have been away this weekend in Athens – which meant some last-minute frantickery to get Things Done, and sterling effort from some people I ...

Regular acolytes of this ‘ere blog might note a sudden and spangly facelift. Looked through Blogger’s layout interface because of something ...

“At the end the comandante raised his arm in the Fascist salute. ‘ ¡Arriba España! ’ In the early days of Bernie’s captivity, at San Pedro,...

Up early Saturday to get the train to Manchester. Read the first quarter of Nobody’s Children (first draft), which is really rather good. ...

Went to see Equus last night at the Gielgud, made famous by Daniel Radcliffe flapping his old chap about at the end. We had “stage seats” –...

I have been told that Margaret Thatcher, when Prime Minister, refused to read briefs of more than three bullet points. If not too hot on det...