Colin Harvey – author

Recent Posts

• Last Night, This Morning: I got back at about midnight from London, where the wonderful Lauren Beukes of Moxyland  fame continued her tour to promote her new novel, Zoo City with an evening at the BSFA. Not only does she write like a demon, she reads marvellously as well, putting real feeling into it. The room was packed, and the
• Deathless Prose: Things have been a little serious around here of late, for understandable reasons, but I thought maybe a change of mood was overdue (plus I’m off to London via Bath in a couple of hours, so a quick post was called for…) Hence this, which is an oldy -in internet terms- but a good one, pinched from SFawardswatch,
• Update: After a weekend of ringing round the family and giving them the news about my stepfather, alternating with my wandering around restlessly, things are slowly returning to normal. Thank you to everyone who offered their condolences and support. It helped a lot. Meanwhile, I’ve posted a review of the latest issue of the Magazine of Fantasy
• Black Friday: Yesterday I was going to post about being halfway through my writing splurge (but more than halfway through the wip — more on that next week, maybe) but events overtook that. I’ll keep it short; at 1.30am yesterday, my stepfather died of the myeloma he’d been fighting for the last six years.  He raised me from
• Visiting the Ghost Town: I’ve not got much work done the last 24 hours or so, although I’ve managed to write my 1400 words for the day, so the only thing I’m behind on is the various guest blogs I’ve promised people for September to support the Angry Robot launch. Yesterday I had to shoot into Newton Park to drop