SCI-FI & FANTASY BOOK REVIEWER… …and struggling writer.

Archive for July 2009

Horror Screenwriting: The Nature of Fear

I’m ready to be corrected here but this is the first book I’ve come across on the subject of horror screenwriting, which is funny given the number of great filmmakers who’ve cut their cinematic teeth within the genre, and now that I’ve read it, quite frankly, it’s going to be a hard act to follow.
The [...]

Winterstrike

Winterstrike is a novel about the four Harn sisters. The eldest, Hestia, the adventurer, plucked from childhood to serve as a Winterstrike spy, Leretui, the rebel, confined to a locked room as punishment for the disgrace of being caught with a man-remnant, Essegui, the sensible one, works in the Temple and the youngest, Canteley, [...]

Eagle Rising

Eagle Rising is the follow-up to Hunter’s Moon, the book that introduced us to the morally flawed anti-hero ‘Jack’, a kind of special forces magician that works for an unnamed secret government agency fighting the mystical forces of evil so that we can all carry on our gloriously unenlightened lives of M&S boil-in-the-bag meals and [...]

Mastering Hollywood for Writers

Many seminars can teach you how to write a great script, but what do you do once you’ve finished writing? For most aspiring screenwriters this usually means punting your opus around the UK film industry for a while before total despondency sets in and you throw it in a draw and get on with [...]

Meet China Miéville

Your last few chances to hear China Miéville talk about his new novel, The City & The City, are rapidly approaching so do yourself a favour and get along to see this visionary author at any - or indeed all - of the following venues:
Tuesday 7th July - Upstairs at The Pineapple Public House
51 Leverton [...]