2023 in review: London calling to the faraway towns
The past twelve months witnessed a lot of firsts for me, including my first peer-reviewed essay published in an academic journal and writing for the UK Games Expo.
The past twelve months witnessed a lot of firsts for me, including my first peer-reviewed essay published in an academic journal and writing for the UK Games Expo.
2022 was a return to normal, or as normal as we get, for us…
This was the year I celebrated my fifth anniversary as a full-time writer and journalist. On the day itself – 20th August – I was a guest of Adam Rosser on his Game On show for BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss Cyberpunk 2020, including the forthcoming video game adaptation. Pay attention – Cyberpunk will…
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At times, this year felt like a novel written by George R.R. Martin: shocking twists and all of your favourite characters die. However, on the whole, 2016 was a positive year for me. I continued to write for Computer Weekly and various branches of the BBC, as well as starting to write for Alphr. Despite…
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2015 was the year I celebrated my first year as a professional writer. This was a dramatic career change after fifteen years as an engineer. Ultimately, my only regret was that I did not begin freelancing sooner. Whilst most of my writing projects were journalistic, I also performed some copy-writing for the BBC on their…
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For me, 2014 will be remembered as the year I became a professional full-time writer/journalist. I left my part-time job as a design engineer in late August, as my holidays were quickly running out and rather than paying to work, I decided to take the leap whilst I was ahead. Despite planning for this shift…
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Despite having previously written about digital note-management application Evernote for Spacewitch, and having had Evernote installed for a couple of years, it is only recently that I have started to actively use it. I had previously used Evernote simply as a filing mechanism for any articles I had found and wished to read later during…
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For me, 2013 was the year we entered the future. As a child of the eighties, I remember reading the background to the Cyberpunk role-playing game. The game was set in the then-future 2013 world of cybernetic enhancements, sleek technology and flying cars. Whilst we may not have these cars, and limb-replacement technology is not…
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The past year, despite the apocalyptic prophecies, has overall been a positive one. The highlight of my year would have to be my comic-fantasy short-story The Sound of Latex being published in the Fox Spirit anthology “Tales of the Nun and Dragon”. My story has been well received, with reviewers asking for more tales of…
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