by admin | Jun 14, 2017 | General
My geek credentials are far from impressive. Real geeks would scoff at the idea of my claiming any geek status whatsoever. I am not a gamer. I don’t watch horror movies. I don’t read graphic novels published after about 1992. The Star Wars franchise is a...
by admin | Jun 1, 2017 | General, Uncategorized
Gustave Flaubert, the author of Madame Bovary, is famous for writing his books slowly and painstakingly. I first heard about Flaubert’s slow-muse reputation in the work of P G Wodehouse, the British humorist who was famous for writing his books extremely fast....
by admin | May 25, 2017 | General, Spire
Acclaimed South African journalist Gus Silber was kind enough to post this review of SPIRE online recently. What I love about it is that he really gets what attracted me to the South Pole setting – the extreme weather, the appalling isolation, and the...
by admin | Mar 31, 2017 | General
A hard lesson The first book I did serious research for was Trinity On Air. It was my second published novel. With my first novel, Trinity Rising, I was writing about what I knew, which was being a student at Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape. Trinity On Air was...
by admin | Jan 23, 2017 | General
Serialisation might appear to be no more than a footnote from literary history, but it is not as antiquated as it seems. You probably picture Charles Dickens writing his novels in serialised form for Victorian newspapers, and spinning the plot out so he could earn...
by admin | Jan 19, 2017 | General, Spire |
“Nurse!” Kelebile rushed over just in time to catch the man in his arms as he collapsed. “Where are we going to put him?” he said, staggering a little. “All the beds are full.” There were only three beds in the sick-bay and they were indeed all full. “The room next to...
