Inspirations – Marvell and computers
The short story Mosaic of Air, (title story of my first collection and republished this coming September) began life in a computer literacy class in the late 1980’s. I was bored, the class was going...
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Mosaic of Air by Cherry Potts (cover Melina Traub) So I’ve been working through the first box of books sending them out to reviewers. And I’ve been so busy organising things I didn’t get round to...
View ArticleAwards and Mermaids
It’s been an exciting week. First I won an award for one of the anthologies I edited for Arachne Press – Weird Lies – The Saboteur2014 Best Anthology Award! It’s one of very few independent awards,...
View ArticleLonCon 3 – Suggestions?
So I’m on a couple of panels for LonCon 3, and I need to do some homework so that I’m properly on the ball. Suggested (re)reading (and viewing I suppose) please, from all you SF fans out there. First...
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I’ve been asked to step in last-minute to moderate another panel at LonCon3 Reimagining Families (Thursday 11:00) In a 2013 column for Tor.com, Alex Dally MacFarlane called for a greater diversity in...
View ArticlePretending poetry, songs of liberty and Ursula le Guin
The thing about running your own business is that holidays become almost entirely theoretical. It’s a holiday to leave the computer for long enough to hang out the washing on a sunny day, it’s a...
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