Mark Charan Newton

So, I bought a ticket to see the the most pre-preview screening on Wednesday, at a fee of £13! Yes, I am that sad. Will it be worth that? I could wait another day and have it half that price, but hey. And tonight’s entertainment, Gotham Knight. If you hear nothing of me by the [...]

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Interesting rant by James over at Speculative Horizons.
Something which has become increasingly common in recent years is the number of fantasy authors who, when asked what other genre writers they read/admire, give a reply along the lines of: “Oh, well…I don’t really read fantasy, you see.”… So why don’t some fantasy authors read fantasy novels? [...]

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A not so complete history of literary tattoos. (Link pinched from the blog of Jonathan Carroll.
Johannes Guttenberg invented the printing press in Germany in 1439. Samuel O’Reilly invented the modern tattoo machine in 1891. And sometime around the turn of the century the first literary tattoo was born. Whether nostalgic for the characters from a [...]

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At last, a video of Jeff Buckley that those bastards at Sony haven’t stamped their authoritarian copyright on.

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Last night I sketched a map. A secondary world map, for Nights of Villjamur. There are some who may think this stretches into true nerdism, and you may be right, but I can’t deny it felt good. Can’t have a fantasy without a map, many say.
There’s something thoroughly satisfying about putting the world I [...]

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Because he has been outed.

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The flame-red moon, the harvest moon,
Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing,
A vast balloon,
Till it takes off, and sinks upward
To lie on the bottom of the sky, like a gold doubloon.
The harvest moon has come,
Booming softly through heaven, like a bassoon.
And the earth replies all night, like a deep drum.
So people can’t sleep,
So they go out [...]

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Very happy to see Salman Rushdie winning the Best of the Booker Prize Award.

Midnight’s Children won the Booker Prize in 1981. It was then chosen as the Booker of Bookers in 1993 - the only other time a celebratory prize has been awarded.
The Best of the Booker shortlist was selected by a panel of judges [...]

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Still waiting for both these guys to come to the UK.

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