Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

So here is a photo of my friend Nick Green, looking like a super-cool, turbo-charged, kick-ass dude, pretty much exactly the way kids imagin...

As a long-term writer of brilliant adult science fiction, Gwyneth Jones is a force to be reckoned with.  ‘ Bold As Love’ , which won the Ar...

Now here is the story of how I had the happy chance to meet Terri Windling.  My younger daughter is best friends with her stepdaughter, and ...

Two exciting things, actually.  The first is the lovely cover of the new book I’ve written. ‘Forsaken’ will be published in November by Fran...

Water. You can touch it, but you can’t hold it.  It runs between your fingers.  It flows away in streams, in rivers, talking to itself.  I...

  Many a wonderful YA fantasy of the last decade tells of doomed but brilliant young men in thrall to a beautiful, capricious and often crue...

Here is Hercules, in brown, depicted on an Athenian vase. Eros, standing on his shoulder, offers him one of the golden apples of immor...