It would seem (to me) that the golden days of Science Fiction are long gone and have been replaced by absurd things like Botox Cheshire ads…

We may have oodles of CGIs in the movies and TV programmes of today, but the actual stories just don’t seem to be very good a lot of the time. Of course, there are always a few exceptions; ‘Solaris’, ‘Sunshine’ and ’28 Days Later’ were all brilliant stories, but most modern Sci-Fi is a Read the rest of this entry »

I’m not sure what to make of chicklit really. In my mind the term has come to mean something fairly derogatory, something lightweight and implied within it is a somewhat slightly snobby attitude.

I’ve read plenty of literary heavy weights in my time as well as more frothy writers. Sometimes after wading through a particularly heavy tome, I like to pick up something that I can skip through, something that won’t tax me too much but that will hold my Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t believe in writer’s block but I do believe in writer’s ass. This is not the term given to a writer’s donkey, but, in fact, the term given to the numb backside which can occur while a writer sits for a long period of time. It’s a terrible and debilitating condition, second only to writer’s finger (blisters on the fingers from typing for hours on end). If you have both then your writing days might well be over. You Read the rest of this entry »