Q. You have explored the significance of memories in your work before and do so again as Tycho gradually remembers his past. What is it about this theme that makes it so appealing? A. We are our memories. Our identity turns on where we think we come from, what we think we’ve done and what type of person we think that makes us. Regret is remembering having done one thing and...
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Never really understood the obsession with movie props until I had a chance to borrow George RR Martin's chair. Now I get it and want to know if they do a matching sofa and foot stool!
Arise and join us at BLACKWELL'S as we explore dark and fascinating interpetations of THE GOTHIC. We'll be filling the venue's labyrinthine halls with shadowy figures and haunting images. The evening features a selection of mysterious figures from literature, art and film, all eager to deliberate the most classically terrifying works of fantasy and horror. Guests include Christopher Fowler,...
'Gritty, grimy, decadent and compelling, the Venice of Grimwood’s imagination is teeming with scheming nobles and assassins... He might be beautiful, pale-skinned and an object of lust for Venice’s young women, but Grimwood’s Tycho, amnesiac and ancient, dog-toothed and deadly, is far removed from the rank-and-file vampires that have flooded fiction in the wake of Stephenie...
Crack Angel was written for the bsfa Celebration book to commemorate fifty years of British science fiction, and now here it is recorded by the mavens at Dark Fiction Magazine and read brilliantly by David Moore. I based on Lester Dent's classic template for writing pulp fiction that sells, right down to using Eloise the monkey (read the template below) and referencing...
