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A frantic few days getting everything ticked off in time for jetting to Chicago . I've freelanced for two days, invoiced them, rewritten...

Leslie has produced The Terrible Zodin , a free fanzine to celebrate Doctor Who's 45th birthday. It includes a short story I wrote about...

Surely I dreamt the adverts for the panto in Bromley starring Police Academy's Steve Guttenberg . But no, the "Hollywood idol"...

I’ve been avidly following Lance Parkin’s Eyeless blog , in which he unpicks how he goes about writing a Doctor Who book. Some things I conc...

My clever uncle Bob has updated his website with details of his latest musical choons . We've swapped notes on our current activities, a...

After the not-so-great Moonraker and Diamonds Are Forever , Bond Book 5 is a bit fab. Bond himself doesn't appear until page 78 of From...

This goes on a bit: it’s a book review but also the janglings of my brain in my sparer moments of man flu. Sorry. After the invasion of 1066...

As Herr Arnopp reports, there are now copies out of Doctor Who: Christmas Round the World . My story, "Do you smell carrots?", is...

This blog has been a casualty of my chasing around on a number of projects, some of which are very exciting indeed. Announcements in due cou...

A few pals speak of being at the “DVD boxset” stage in life. Some have kids, some can’t be fagged going out of an evening. I’m just a bit ru...

Surprise package in the post this morning; a new set of Doctor Who paperbacks. It's five months since the last box set . This one featur...

Having rattled through The Ghost , I’ve since rattled through The H-Bomb Girl by Stephen Baxter . I loved his The Time Ships (a sequel to T...

Big Finish have posted the blurb and cast for The Two Irises , written by me. It's out in April (or, as part of a boxset in February ). ...

Awake at five this morning as the Dr thumped around getting ready for her cab to the airport. She and the mother-in-law are now be in Cairo,...

Ooh! Found an online video of Neal Stephenson discussing The Fork: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture , which was part of the Science Fi...

For my own amusement, chiefly, here's two Doctor Who magazine covers showing the Doctor's pretty friends larking about in my hood. ...

The latest podcast of impossible things features a competition to win copies of Doctor Who - How the Doctor Changed My Life. And also inter...

As well as jamming lasagne and booze down my head-hole, Psychonomy leant me comics on Saturday. The collected edition of DC: The New Fronti...

I love a good name-drop, but I love a bad one better. "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose ... This has always...

I was in the South Wales Echo yesterday . Oh yes.