Poetry Reading Tonight.

I'm reading tonight at Illicit Ink's Happy Verse Day II. Starts at 1900 at Pulp Fiction in Bread Street.

More info and (free) tickets here.

There are only 5 tickets left, so if you want to come along, please do, but be quick and reserve a ticket.

New Book Out Soon

My latest book, New Waves in Cinema, will be out at the end of January. Somewhat later than planned, it has to be said. But I have a good excuse: in the 4 years its taken to write, I have made 4 films, 3 of them feature length, and also done a Master's degree. So I've not been idle, by any means. Even so, I did fear for my sanity on more than one occasion... The golden rule is, try to do only one thing at any one time.

In the meantime, I have various other books on the back burner, so I'm hoping 2013 will be a productive year.

Wishing you all a good one...

Trees and Woods

This piece by Sara Maitland just caught my eye. Reminds me of something John Fowles said in his book The Tree about entering woods being like entering another element, like water. Time to go for a swim, then...

The Gnostics - Available in Spanish

The Gnostics: The First Christian Heretics is now available in Spanish. In fact, it was first published in Spanish in 2007, and I have only just found out. The reason I didn't find out was that Amazon kept listing the book as unavailable, and I assumed that it didn't exist. It was only when I found someone actually selling a copy on Amazon.com that I realised the book did indeed exist and was not just an error in Amazon's database.

You can buy a copy of the book from Amazon.com. (It's cheaper than Amazon UK.)

Time Gets Away from Us

I've not updated this blog in far too long. I'm currently finishing a new book, and have also been on my travels. I'll post something more substantial when the book is done. Right now, it's time for coffee and In Our Time...

Edinburgh International Book Festival - Reading Today

I'll be reading at the Story Shop strand of the Edinburgh International Book Festival at 4pm today in the  famed Spiegeltent. (So called because of the mirrors.) It's a free daily dose of stories featuring emerging writers from Edinburgh, and so far has been very good. So come along if you are in the area.  I'll be reading from 'Dreaming at Baikonur', from Rocket Science. More info here.

Story Shop @ Edinburgh Book Festival

Details of this year's Story Shop at the Edinburgh International Book Festival have now gone up. More info here. I'm reading on Thursday 23rd August at 4pm. See you there!