My always amazing wife, Jenny Blackford, has a new interview over here in the fanzine Dark Matter. Check it out. She talks about the processes of writing fiction and...
Read MoreNow and then, I am asked why I named this blog “The Hellfire Club” (it was originally “Metamagician and the Hellfire Club”, but that’s...
Read MoreOver at Brain Pickings is a nice post about one of my favourite authors, Kurt Vonnegut. Specifically, it is about Vonnegut’s reflections on the shapes of stories...
Read MoreHere be spoilers: read on at your own risk Over at Marvel Comics, the long-running title Amazing Spider-Man has been cancelled (for now), following its 700th issue. In...
Read MoreSince someone asked (in the previous thread) about my Sunday Supervillainy series, you can most easily catch up with it by searching my old site for this blog, using...
Read MoreOne my ambitions – perhaps to be saved for a far-off time – is to write a book about fictional villains. What roles do they play in myth, literary...
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