One Brick at a Time

There has been a whole lot of debate over the last week or so about the British National Party’s appearance on Question Time.
Now, before I start with my views, I think it important to clarify my particular stance on the subject of the BNP.
First of all, I despise everything the bunch of nasty little shits [...]

So, as some of you know, I got into The West Wing pretty late. So late, in fact, I was able to get hold of a copy of the Season 1-7 box set for a ridiculous price.
Tonight I saw the last episode of season 1, and it is still my favourite TV series. This is [...]

Earlier this week I posted that we had rejected a couple of excellent manuscripts for not being “genre enough”. This was a copy of a post I made over at the Angry Robot website.
Someone responded and asked – well, what is “genre enough, then”?
A good question, and one which you can see my answer to [...]

Following last year’s successful pilot, the BBC ordered a full 6 episodes of their “comedy drama” Being Human. I didn’t see the pilot, and when I heard the concept I was intrigued, but not particularly excited.
It’s the story of three flatmates – one is a ghost, one a vampire, and one a werewolf – and [...]

Well, I’ve been an angry robot for 3 weeks, now, and this is my first post (expect a lot more in future) about it. Things have been extraordinarily busy over the last few weeks.
It already feels like I’ve been here for months, but in a good way. Setting up a new publishing division was always [...]

I’m what you would probably call an early adopter. Not a very early adopter, mind – I simply don’t have the time or disposable income to tick that particular box on my wish list. Perhaps the term “quite early adopter” would suit better, or “earlyish adopter”.
Anyway.
I first became interested in the concept of electronic [...]

For those of you reading this at my Livejournal account: Hi! This is being cross-posted by the wonders of modern technology from my new internet home (and if the posting has worked you’ll see the URL in italics, somewhere below).
 
I’m writing this, sat at my PC at 6.25 a.m., having been awake since 4.00. This [...]