Personal Blog: Tales from the Writing Field – Fighting through the wall

¦ dialling in from the Sky Bunker ¦ It feels like an age since I’ve had the brain space to say anything meaningful on this blog. Or rather, the time and ability to string a few words together with a semblance of meaning.  I went to Malta at the start of the month.  Incredible place [...]

Travel: Malta – May 2012

What an amazing place.  I’ve been trying to get to Malta for years – since around 2003 – but for one reason or another it never worked out.  Now that I’ve been I’ll definitely be going back. A tiny island 18 miles long by 9 miles wide with 7,000 years of human history crammed down [...]

Personal Blog: solo weekend, clearing the mind and positive vibes from the metaphysical realm

Dialling in from Sky Bunker 15:24 GMT Saturday 21st April, 2012 Listening to the spine-tingling jaw stretching brain shrieking talent of Devin Townsend – Heaven Send – from the album Ki  (listen via YouTube below). life support blowing warm air around my legs that are aching from over-exertion. Went into town this morning and did [...]

Travel: riding the Orient Express – a day trip from London on British Pullman

April 2012 – Orient Express from London . . 2012 – Orient Express Ticket Pouch April. A week earlier a package arrived in the post. Tickets for the Orient Express. Inside the package was a leather pouch. All very Agatha. Fantastic. . 2012 – Orient Express Ticket Pouch April. There was something very pleasing (and [...]

Personal Blog: walking in the rain

¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦ 07:47 AM GMT Tuesday 10th April 2012. So that was the Easter bank holiday. Four days that felt more like a week. Really good.  Yesterday was a solo day. Oj left early. I pottered around, tinkered with website, watched a little bit of the classic Casablanca (notice Hollywood [...]

Personal blog: recovery, hardback edition, nanomech – synthology, and looking forward to the Orient Express

¦ dialling in from the Sky Bunker ¦ 09:55 GMT Saturday 7th April 2012 Sitting at my desk. Cool grey daylight flooding in from the big canopy behind me. The shadows, pooling around the corner where I sit within the descending slope of the roof, are pushed aside by the hot red glow of my [...]

Personal blog: A Yellow Dawn weekend at Hayling Island

¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦ 19:00 GMT – ENGLAND – Monday 19th March 2012. Golden rays of sunlight paint the end of the day. Beautiful weather. Spring in full majesty.  The Empress returning from the shadows of Winter. What an incredible weekend. Hayling Island. A house on the very edge of the sea. [...]

Personal Blog: Jazz Disaster and return of The Mood

¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦ 04:45 hrs.  Tuesday 13th March 2012.  My first early start in a few days. Supping a mug of tea and enjoying the silence and solitude up here in the eaves of the house; deep red glow from my lava lamp.  Ignoring the ever-creeping crack in the roof. Bloody [...]

Personal blog: Hayling Island March 2012 – Songs of Spheres and Mayhem At The Manor

¦ Dialling in from Hayling Island ¦ 10:12 am on Sunday 4th March 2012. I’m sitting in the large lounge, at the back where the dinning table sits near the wall; I’ve got the laptop set up there, a radiator behind me keeping the day’s grey-rainy chill out of my bones. Sitting here I’m facing [...]

Doing nothing is totally underrated

¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦ 18:39 GMT, Sunday 26th Feb 2012. I’m ignoring the massive crack in the sloping roof behind me. Woke up in Tetbury this morning, in the heart of the Cotswolds; drove there yesterday with my partner in crime, Oj, during the tail end of the day which had seen [...]

Personal blog ¦ Life moves pretty fast; if you don’t stop and look around…

¦ dialling in from sky bunker¦ 07:21 GMT, Thursday 24th Feb. It seems I’ve been thinking about writing up some personal stuff for weeks now but just never have the brain juice left to get some words down. I think I’ve been burning the candle at both ends too long, and with a blowtorch. The [...]

Personal blog – writing, socialising, planned trips and spooky vibes

¦ dialling in from the Sky Bunker ¦ Wednesday 8th Feb – early morning.  Sitting here wrapped in the woolly embrace of Starsky Cardi, supping first mug of tea – and ignoring the massive crack that’s now appeared in the outward sloping roof of this room. The Sky Bunker looks set to let the sky [...]

Fighting demons and the drudgery of a creative grind

Dialling in from Sky Bunker 16:32 GMT.  Saturday 14th January 2012.  Finally feeling some positive state of mind after a hellish few days; the overhaul of  Yellow Dawn  – The Age of Hastur (2.1) to create a new fandangled version 2.5 has been going 10 months now and it’s really dragging down my spirits.  It’s [...]

That Was The Year That Was 2011

Highlights of a sci-fi writer 2011 was a bloody amazing year.  In no particular order… 01 Creative frenzy: 14 short stories in 41 days. It began during the Christmas break and didn’t stop. Over a month of non-stop furious writing, 14 very different short stories one after the other: Arnos Vale ; Corrupt Moon ; [...]

Merry Mythos – Christmas Norwegian style with a hint of Lovecraft

¦ dialling in from the sky bunker ¦ 15:56 GMT, Christmas Day. Arctic winds are gusting around the house, making the whole roof above my head creak and groan ominously. I’m on my own now since everyone left this morning to go do the English thing with their families. I celebrate Christmas Eve. Last night [...]

Daverama Diary: Cyberpunk Culture today – Dan B does the Lex Landro thing

I met Dan B back in 2005 whilst he curated an art show; I was seeking advice on printing digital photos onto canvas and he impressed me with his immense knowledge of different inks and their playful effects – and his none ego way of sharing his experience and knowledge. I also liked the fact [...]

Daverama Diary – British crusty in a supermarket

I was standing in a Sainsburys supermarket yesterday, waiting in line like any good UK citizen feels inclined to – when the scrawny figure in front of me whirled round and began to sing.  He was tall, a few years younger than me with a smooth forehead and face lacking in creases… but there was [...]

Day Four of Four

¦ dialling in from the Sky Bunker ¦ 19:02 GMT, 2nd December 2011.  It’s dark outside.  There’s an angry wind battering the roof that slopes above my head.  The room is bathed in the blood-red glow of a lava lamp.  Eerie sounds ooze through the large speakers placed on either corner of my desk, pointing [...]

Day One of Four

¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦ Also having a LOT of day-dreams about Oakfield, the novel I want to write at the tail end of next 2012… mostly helped by the recent visits to the house by the sea at Hayling Island, two weekends in a row, both trips wrapped up with intense Mythos [...]

November sun, great start to the weekend (updated) swimming under the stars & cocktails

¦ dialling in from sky bunker ¦ 12:43 GMT, 19th November 2011.  This time last week I was just getting out of the sea having spent the morning skinny dipping in the jade green waves rolling in off the Solent. It’s been a grim week – with work being particularly intense for the Nth month [...]