Monthly Archives: November 2017

On Loving Speculative Fiction in Nigeria by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

Posted on 27 November 2017 by Jacey Bedford

Before the start of each workday, I do at least thirty minutes of reading. I do this either on my commute (when I don’t drive), or in the car at the car park (when I do drive), or at my … Continue reading →

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Heroic Factasy by Ben Jeapes

Posted on 20 November 2017 by Jacey Bedford

I don’t read much heroic fantasy, for various reasons. A good one is that it all comes in such fat multi-volume series that I simply don’t have the time. But a deeper, slightly more sneaking one is that, well, it’s … Continue reading →

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Why Every Writer Should Join ALCS by David Gullen

Posted on 14 November 2017 by Jacey Bedford

ALCS, the UK Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, collects secondary royalties on behalf of writers for work published in the UK, and campaigns and lobbies on writers’ rights at national and international levels. The society is now in its 40th … Continue reading →

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I never intended… by Vaughan Stanger

Posted on 7 November 2017 by Jacey Bedford

I never intended to write a series of science fiction stories about a robot butler called “Reeves”, but the tale of how it came about is, I suspect, emblematic of many a writer’s life. The original story, Writing on the … Continue reading →

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