The Ghost without a Shell

Volcon and Longcon The announcements for Longcon haven’t gone out this year, and there’s a number of reasons for that, but I keep g...

Worldcon, Volcon, Longcon, Dragonmeet That sounds a little like a John Le Carre novel title, but it’s what’s occupying me right a...

So, my week has been completely mullered by the events that took place over Expo this year, we normally get some problems over Expo, some...

This comes as a bit of a revelation to me, particularly as I've seen this film hundreds of times before, from the original cut, to...

Sometimes the hardest thing about conventions is in the organising of the following year, I recently did a podcast on the building and runn...

So I've been away a while again, last year was not good, and I mean that in a way where not good isn't an exaggeration, but I'm...

When you write, you have to read. That's what everyone says, but a lot of writers I know don't read all that much, they sett...

Because with the exception of a few posts in February, I've pretty much dropped off the planet with regards to social media presence.  ...

What if an army from another world attacked a planet where magic not only existed, but was central to their way of life...?  Where th...

And this time, it's mine... Last minute prep underway, if anyone watching wants to take a look at this https://www.kickstarte...

I don't do Calligraphy for the most part, always considered it to be too extravagant for the amount that I write.  That said, I do ...

I'm not much for pens above a certain value, worked in too many places where they go missing, get broken, or generally just aren...

So last week I went to the Inaugural Manchester Stationery Show, the northern counterpart to the London Stationery Show that was put in p...

As with Pens, so it is with Notebooks, you keep looking for combinations of things till you have exactly what it is you're after.  F...

It seems to be the week for looking at different types of notebook, the thought occurred that I've lost my way in recent days/weeks/...

Alright, I'm not a hipster, and the title of this notebook suggests that I may have been brought over to the darkside, but fear ...