Barry Jonsberg This is the first in a series of Guest Posts from some of our finest writers. Today, it’s Barry Jonsberg, the writer of the wonderful ‘The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull’. I first read R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island when I was about eight years...

Almost forgotten today, Talbot Mundy was one of the great adventure writers of the first half of the twentieth century. It was fellow bibliophile and curiosity seeker Stephen Bresnehan who put me onto Mundy, sending me a copy of  ‘King – of the Khyber Rifles’, a thrashingly good tale...

I know this article should really be called ‘Powerless Protagonists’ or ‘Powerless Main Characters’ but I couldn’t resist the nuance of ‘Powerless Heroes’. What I’m talking about is the tendency of many stories to have a main character who is helpless. Put upon. A loser. I was reading a...

This could be the ultimate ‘Extinction Gambit’ teaser: my advance copy, nestled in my steely grip.            ...

And here’s the official book trailer for my next book ‘The Extinction Gambit’, Book One of ‘The Extraordinaires’.  ...

As a fantasy writer, I spend much of my writing time about magic, how it works and its effects on the people and societies in my stories. In ‘The Laws of Magic’ series, for instance, magic is a codified, rational endeavour which is explored and experimented with in the...

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‘In the middle of all the mayhem, Kingsley found a split-second to admire her swordplay, her aim and the quality of her taunting – her descriptions of her attackers’ physical failings and her estimations of their family origins made them even more determined to drag her from her perch....

It’s time again for me to show my approbation for the clever, insightful and b0undlessly inventive  folk over at The Realm of the Ridiculous. I applaud their efforts...