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Voting For Fairness

I usually don’t get political online, and keep this blog for musings on creativity, the arts, and general geekiness. But here in the UK we’ve got big day tomorrow and I thought I’d share my perspective…which is worth just one vote. I’m voting Labour. For me, the choice is about ethos and orientation. I choose […]

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Hull, April 28 & 29

I’m delighted to be shortlisted for the Hull Book Award with Memoirs of a Neurotic Zombie! There are four other amazing books on the list, so readers have a tough choice on their hands….though I suspect my books is the very best zombie title on the list!! I’ll be visiting schools on the 28th of […]

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Homecoming

This week I’ve been back in Canada, in the Toronto area, launching all four MetaWars books!  It was great to be back, see old friends and make new ones. I thought I’d share a few highlights…. Flying over, I was starting to wish I’d packed my toque (that’s Canadian for winter hat)… The weather in […]

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Memories As Raw Materials

This week, while on book tour in Canada, I guest blogged on the fantastic website 49th Shelf, a site that celebrates Canadian literature. In the spirit of giving them the web traffic they deserve, please click here for my piece on mining memories to create new fiction. I hope you enjoy…and maybe while you’re on […]

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Earth Day Every Day

I write fiction about the future, but that doesn’t mean the future I invent is fictitious. And while I can’t study the future the way historical novelists can study the past, I can, and do, extrapolate today’s trends into future possibilities.  And I say possibilities, because it’s my hope that in some small part, my books […]

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Chapters Burlington, April 25

Home town boy makes good! I’ll be back in my home town of Burlington, Ontario to read from MetaWars and sign books. 2pm at Chapters Fairview, 3315 Fairview Street, Burlington, Ontario L7N 3N9. They’ve got a Facebook page for the event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/806096516146689/

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For the Boys

Yesterday at the London Book Fair, I participated in a panel hosted by publisher Lisa Edwards about boys and men reading. If you know me well, you know this is a subject I’m passionate about. I was a reluctant reader as a boy, and getting (and keeping) boys reading guides my writing. My goal is to […]

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