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This is a sincere hymn of praise to my wonderful German translator Astrid Finke. She has, at one stage or another, discussed all the following things with me (and many more) I’m unbelievably lucky to have found her.
Fight Club was on cable last night. Despite having seen it more times than I can count, I settled in for another viewing. What can I say? It’s hard to resist Ed Norton and Brad Pitt and fighting and witty…
Avatar is a decent movie. It’s not great because A) it’s way too damn long, B) It doesn’t have enough scenes of things fighting other things, and C) It’s just not that groundbreaking.
Don’t get me wrong. I enjoyed it. …
So, in my trilogy The Godless World, quite a few characters don’t make it through to the end. That’s ‘quite a few’ in the sense of ‘quite a lot’, which when you think about it is an odd little quirk…
SOMETIMES I sit here drinking a good single malt and ponder my Ghost Novels. Well, let’s be honest: I sit here drinking a good single malt doing just about everything, to the point where Orbit has assigned me my own…
I’ve been thinking quite a bit this week about conspiracy theories.
But I guess you already knew that, huh?
Come on, tell the truth here. You, I’m talking to you!
Maybe you’ve been trawling through my emails, hmm, yeah? Find…
Writers have weird quirks. Invoking the muse often involves peculiar rituals — sitting at a coffee shop with precisely the right ambiance, playing precisely the right soundtrack at precisely the right volume (or surrounding oneself with utter silence), using only…
For the reader and the writer, a story starts in vastly different places. You, the reader, will (I hope) shortly be reading a book called The Last Stormlord. You will open the cover and find the first page. That will…
It’s not a popular opinion. Certainly, it’s not a “sophisticated” one. But I like black-and-white morality. Not all the time. Not every time. But sometimes, I like good guys who are good, and bad guys that are bad. I like…
This is part two of an email correspondence between Robert Jackson Bennett and Philip Palmer. Part one is here.
Hi Philip,
Thanks for the kind words about Mr. Shivers! I’ve been thinking about what you’ve said, though, especially in…
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