Who out there likes to write short stories?! Over in our Notepad Forum we’ve revived one of our old website’s popular ideas- a writing challenge! The idea is to write a short story that must include 3 random concepts- they could be the core of the story or just incidental details- its up to the [...]

A few friends and I went to see Oz the Great and Powerful on the weekend. While we all agreed that we largely had fun, the more we thought about it, the more we were disappointed. I’ll try to not spoil anything, but suffice to say we all agreed the characterisations were thin and that [...]

People always ask me what it’s like writing the Timestalker series. It follows the adventures of a time travelling detective, Kannon Dupree, who solves exotic mysteries set in different times and places. And as the latest book in the series, Coyote, has just come out, I know I’ll need to hone my answer to that [...]