Monthly Archives: April 2020

Editing and Time Travel by Jacey Bedford

Posted on 28 April 2020 by Jacey Bedford

Editing one book while writing the first draft of the sequel is as close as I will ever come to time travel. But time travel I did, while working on the first two books of the Psi-Tech trilogy. My first … Continue reading →

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Ten Easy Ways to Infuriate Your Editor by Terry Jackman

Posted on 21 April 2020 by Jacey Bedford

My own modest experiences of being edited, both long and short, has always been positive, usually enjoyable, so I can look back at them with some fondness. Then I got into editing, the other side of the table as it … Continue reading →

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Committing Trilogy by Jacey Bedford

Posted on 14 April 2020 by Jacey Bedford

Confession: I’ve committed trilogy. Twice. In all fairness I didn’t expect to write trilogies, though I hoped. When I sold Empire of Dust to DAW my original three book deal was for Empire, an unnamed sequel (which became Crossways) and … Continue reading →

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The Way to the Stars by Una McCormack

Posted on 7 April 2020 by Jacey Bedford

A hundred years ago, when I was a little girl (all right, the late 1970s), I used to draw Blake’s 7 stick man cartoons. Blake’s 7, you see, was my very favourite TV programme, and more than anything else I … Continue reading →

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