Tag Archive | "authors"

Gaiman addresses the graduating class

Monday, May 21, 2012

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Neil Gaiman, suitably gowned, robed and hatted and looking very happy, gives the address to this year’s graduating class in this video uploaded by the University of the Arts: Neil Gaiman Addresses the Class of 2012 from The University of the Arts on Vimeo.

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Alan Moore on Hard Talk

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

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Our revered great bearded magus of Albion, Alan Moore, is the guest on the BBC’s Hard Talk, being interviewed about his comics work from V for Vendetta through to porn and erotica with the Lost Girls, also taking in his prose writing, his feelings about the comics industry (dying he thinks, from lack of original [...]

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Director’s Commentary: the art of writing fantasy

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

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Today we have a nice treat for science fiction and fantasy fans with only our second guest Director’s Commentary post on a prose work, I’m delighted to welcome a highly regarded fantasy writer I’ve known and whose work I’ve enjoyed for years, Juliet E McKenna: I do words, not pictures. I cannot draw anything but [...]

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Denise Mina talks comics

Thursday, February 16, 2012

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(Denise Mina, Ian Rankin and Alan Grant at the Edinburgh Book Festival a couple of years ago, pic from my Flickr) Bestselling Scottish author Denise Mina has a new crime paperback about to hit the shelves from Orion Publishers, The End of the Wasp Season, and her publishers took the opportunity to talk to Denise [...]

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Adam Roberts on science fiction classics

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

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Adam Roberts, one of our most original and intelligent science fiction writers (and noted Twitter punster) talks to The Browser’s FiveBooks Interviews about five classic works of science fiction he’s chosen for the interview. As well as being an exceptionally fine writer himself Adam is always worth reading when discussing literature, go and have a [...]

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Anne McCaffrey, RIP

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

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(Anne McCaffrey, pic borrowed from Suvudu) The Twitterverse this evening started passing around news that Anne McCaffrey, one of the great writers of science fiction and fantasy, had passed away. I couldn’t find any confirmation online until just a few moments ago – James Long directed me to Tor and I see noted SF publisher [...]

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Robert Louis Stevenson Day

Thursday, November 17, 2011

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My friends in the Edinburgh City of Literature tell me that today we are celebrating the very first Robert Louis Stevenson Day (on Twitter hashtag #RLSDay). Regular readers will already know of my passion for ‘dear Louis’; from childhood reading right through to today RLS has remained one of my very favourite writers, a sheer [...]

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Neil in the Simpsons this month

Monday, November 14, 2011

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Comics Continuum has a couple of pics up and the US airdate for the Simpsons episode that sees one Neil Gaiman guest-starring – it should go out on November 20th Stateside, hopefully on Sky in the UK soon after. Neil teams up with Homer and others to group-write the next ‘tween lit’ hit. It’s nice [...]

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Lunar man – Pádraig Ó Méalóid talks to Steve Moore

Friday, November 11, 2011

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Recently we mentioned on the blog that Steve Moore, scribe of many an essay, book and comic, friend and mentor to Alan Moore, had a fascinating new novel, Somnium, coming out, and as it is a book that carries an endorsement not only by Alan but also from Michael Moorcock it is quite obviously a [...]

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Peter S Beagle interviewed

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

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In another video recorded at the New York Comic Con and uploaded by Alexander Williams, BailyCat interviews the wonderful Peter S Beagle, discussing his classic novel The Last Unicorn and the final resolution of a long legal battle over a film version. As with yesterday’s video from the same team it was recorded on the [...]

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Lauren Beukes and Andy Sawyer interviewed

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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There are a couple of fine interviews up with some top bods from the world of science fiction – one of my favourite literary podcasts, The Bat Segundo Show, has an interview with Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City and winner of this year’s prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award: (Lauren Beukes, phot borrowed from the [...]

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Reminder – Paul Cornell in FP Glasgow and Edinburgh this month!

Friday, September 2, 2011

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A reminder for your diaries this month – screenwriter, novelist and comics scribe, the excellent Paul Cornell, will be in our Glasgow store on Buchanan Street on Wednesday 21st of September from 6 to 8pm and in the Edinburgh FPI on Thursday 22nd from 5 to 6pm. Mark it in your diaries now, peeps! Keep [...]

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Grant Morrison at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Monday, August 22, 2011

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(Grant Morrison in conversation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival at the weekend, all pics from my Flickr) This weekend I enjoyed a late evening literary bash at the Edinburgh International Book Festival as Scots superstar comics scribe Grant Morrison took the stage in front of a packed audience, which, I’m delighted to note, had [...]

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Neil Gaiman at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Thursday, August 18, 2011

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(Neil Gaiman and Audrey Niffenegger just before their event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival yesterday afternoon, all pics from my Flickr) On Wednesday I had the pleasure of seeing two excellent authors of both prose and comics works in conversation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival as Neil Gaiman chatted to Audrey Niffenegger. It [...]

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Women and Science Fiction – Are you a misogynist?

Monday, June 27, 2011

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There has been quite an amount of traffic on the subject of women and science fiction writing in the last four weeks. Inspired by the British Library Exhibition (see report here on the blog), BBC 4 Woman’s Hour had a segment on the perception of science fiction as a male-dominated genre which aired at the [...]

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