My new novel Skies Of Venus is ready for preorder!
My new novel Skies Of Venus is now available for pre-order. Skies Of Venus is a new instalment in the "Carson Of Venus" series of scifi novels by the grandfather…
Boudicca is here!
Britain will vanish under a sea of blood. Cities will burn. The moon will be shattered by the screams of the dying. Yes, my first graphic novel is here. Boudicca,…
My movie shame: 20 beloved movies I have never seen
Movies have always been my Great Refuge. I went to the best film school in the world, for years I was employed by a center for motion picture study actually called the The…
Face Time
If you could see the face behind the phone each time you placed a call, touch the aching fingers that set each part in place If you could smell in…
The Art Spirit moves you
I've been re-reading The Art Spirit, by Robert Henri. My dad brought the book over from the States when he and Mum came over to visit in 2007. The copy is a brown-paged…
London Screenwriters Festival, sequences & me
The London Screenwriters Festival may well be the biggest and best conference for screenwriters on Earth right now. There used to be a plethora of L.A.-based writerfests - I've been…
The Camera Is Mightier Than The Gun
Walking home from dropping my daughter off at school today, I was treated to the sight and sound of a driver shrieking obscenities at another man as he crossed the…
The Colorado Movie Shootings and The American Dream
I wanted to put down a few thoughts on this week's shooting spree in Colorado at the screening of The Dark Knight Rises. I'll try to put them down freely,…
X-Women and Hollow Men
In 2001, I wrote the below piece, "X-Women and Hollow Men", for The Hollywood Reporter, about the explosion of female action heroes at the turn of the 21st century. I…
The Death Of Guy Fawkes
The Death Of Guy Fawkes Guy Fawkes, 1605, plotted to blow up Parliament - his reasons were religious or something - he was Catholic - or Protestant - malcontent –…