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A few months ago, I was fortunate enough to co-write a 10,000 word novelette with the popular Interzone and Angry Robot author, Aliette de Bodard .
The story we wrote is called “ The Church Of Accelerated Redemption ” and I’m pleased to announce that it will be appearing in ...
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This December, TTA Press will be hosting an advent calendar . Each day, from the 1st through to the 25th, the TTA website will feature a new link to a story on another website. Some of these stories will be new, others old. Some will be written by previous contributors to TTA Press magazines ( ...
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At the age of ten years old, I scribbled a story into the pages of three spiral-topped reporters’ notebooks. Covering both sides of each page, it must have totalled somewhere in the region of 30,000 words. Heavily influenced by Star Wars and Blake’s 7 , the story recounted the ...
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As part of my ongoing experiment in earning a living as a writer, I’ve created some exclusive merchandise at: www.zazzle.co.uk/garethlpowell .
The t-shirts and mugs feature quotes from some of my most popular stories: “Ack-Ack Macaque”, “The Last Reef”, and ...
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Writing in the latest email newsletter from Tor/Forge Books , Cory Doctorow says:
“All creative endeavor begins with just fooling around, not doing much of anything, just noodling and letting the different parts of your mind talk to each other. Science and art and invention spring forth ...
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Writing on Jeff Vandermeer’s blog, Jason Sanford puts in a good word for the UK SF&F magazine Interzone .
Gardner Dozois has called Interzone “the best looking SF magazine,” and it’s hard to disagree. But as good as their design is, the writing is even better. I love their ...
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This morning, I submitted a new short story to market. The idea for it came to me while getting dressed the other day, and I wrote the whole first draft in an hour. Becky read it for me last night and suggested some minor changes, which I made on the spot. I’m planning to write another ...
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My ebook experiment is featured on SF Signal:
www.sfsignal.com/archives/2009/11/wanna-buy-gareth-powells-the-last-reef-name-your-price/
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I have a number of reference books on the art of writing. Some are better than others, and some I dip into almost every day.
Take The Elements Of Style for example. So far I’d have to say it’s been the most useful book I’ve found in terms of day-to-day writing.
First ...
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page. Now, I was never quite comfortable with this whole “fan page” thing, but it seemed other writers were doing it, so I thought I’d give it a shot. However in practice, it turned ...
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Now that winter’s approaching, how many of you fancy sleeping outside? How about sleeping outside naked ?
The simple fact is, the human animal is not suited to surviving a Northern European winter. Without technologies such as hunting, fire and agriculture, our ancestors would have died ...
