Tag Archives: Speculative Fiction

SALAD: Southend Area Local Authors’ Day Saturday 6th July 2019

Not to be missed! On Saturday, 6th July, the 2019 Southend Area Local Authors’ Day (SALAD), with the Southend Festival. The opportunity to meet, talk and listen to local authors from the Southend-on-Sea and surrounding area. Share stories and experiences of writing and buy their books. Participating authors from a number of genres, including fiction, […]

Essex Book Festival 2019: Essex Authors and You

Come along this coming Saturday 9th March to the Essex Authors and You day at Chelmsford library. From 10.00 to 16.00 local authors will be holding seminars and talks. Between 12.00 and 14.00 there are opportunities to chat informally with many of the writers on a one-to-one basis and to listen to them introduce themselves […]

The Flammarion Engraving: Inspiration for The Invisible College Trilogy Covers

The inspiration for the background of the covers of my The Invisible College Trilogy. According to Wikipedia, ‘the Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in Camille Flammarion’s L’atmosphère: météorologie populaire (1888). The image depicts a man crawling under the edge of the sky, depicted as if it were […]

Essex Authors’ Day, Chelmsford, Saturday 17th March 2018

I thoroughly enjoyed the Essex Authors’ Day, on Saturday 17 March at Chelmsford, Essex, library. An Essex Book Festival event, it featured over forty local writers giving talks, readings and ‘Meet The Author’ sessions. All presentations were free. My talk on ‘Writing Speculative Fiction’ was well-attended. I described a number of sub-genres and offered suggestions […]

Busy Working on My Seminar for the Essex Book Festival 2018

I am currently busy working on my presentation/seminar on ‘Writing Speculative Fiction’ at the Essex Authors’ Day, Saturday 17th March at Essex Libraries, Chelmsford, part of the Essex Book Festival. The session will be an interactive presentation and discussion of Speculative Fiction. I will give an outline of the genres and sub-genres, listing examples of the main […]

New Novel Complete – Next Step: to Find an Agent

My new novel, working title, ‘Another Life’, is written and I have completed two edits. The photographs show one of the key characters. The book describes a wide-ranging quest, combining folklore, legends and ancient beliefs with the protagonist’s reminiscences of his family life. It explores the borders between dreams and memories and the social and ethical questions […]

Essex Book Festival 2018: Essex Authors Day, Saturday 17th March

Essex Book Festival 2018 On Saturday 17th March I will be holding a forty-five minute seminar from 10a.m. at Chelmsford library, with the title ‘Writing Speculative Fiction’. I will also be giving an author reading and have a ‘Meet the Author’ session. More details to follow. I look forward to meeting friends and readers.