It's a cache thing. Probably Chrome playing silly buggers.

I'll be on a panel at this year's Comic Con with a bunch of other awesome authors. Come join us at the Pop-Taku stage on May 2 at 5pm when we discuss why fantasy fiction is absolutely vital!

Is anyone else's KDP been down for a "scheduled two-hour maintenance" that has lasted more than a day?

I’m looking forward to it. Wish you were there! We had such a grand old time back in 2019.

So looking forward to all the inquiring minds. What are some of the questions that you, as a budding SFF author wnat to know about world building?

Who's joining us on May 15 for the THE CRAFT OF WORLD BUILDING WORKSHOP at this year's Franschhoek Literary Festival? My workshop, starting at 2pm is SOLD OUT! Can you believe it?

I'm proud to announce that my speculative short story created with input from researcher Annette Hübschle is now available to read.

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With thanks to the British Science Fiction Association for providing the opportunity.

I'm all the excite.

I can finally let slip that Isobel, the dark folk project I contribute to with Terminatryx vocalist Sonja Ruppersberg, will be opening for No Friends of Harry at the World Goth Day celebration happening on May 23.

“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.

Review for the new Sauútiverse Terrors anthology that has my story "Endling" in it and honestly, I needed to see this review. I'm in a dark place at present so this gives me great joy.

A Sooty update. We are now on a varied diet of live feeders, soft fruit, hand-rearing formula and cat food.

A metallic grey Ford Ecosport being loaded onto a truck.

Tuesday

Parking is available on the premises. Lectures are free for TESSA members; visitors pay R30. Refreshments cost R10.

And, of her four children, her only daughter was Cleopatra Selene, who went on to become a queen in her own right.

The Egyptian Society of South Africa invites you to attend this lecture at St George’s Grammar School in Richmond Road, Mowbray, on Tuesday, March 24, at 7.30pm.

Immortalised in art, film, and fiction, Cleopatra VII, the last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, is familiar to and beloved of many. But how many of us knew that she had four children with two of the most powerful men in Rome?

Some photos are just perfect. It was absolutely swell to see one of my oldest friends and co-conspirators and her partner. Robyn and I go way back to high school days. We have Seen Things.

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While I wait for line edits to come back for Call the Fire, I'm happy to report that Tame the Ocean (book 2 of The Scatterlings of Fate) is well underway.

A Sooty update. He's decompressed beautifully and is quite a cheeky little bugger.

Meet Sooty the redwing starling. They were found emaciated and dehydrated in a roof during the heatwave, the parents having abandoned the nest.

Can't wait to get stuck into book 2 of the Palimar Saga by author KR Solberg. Gunpowder fantasy FTW.

For my next act, I need to transfer the word document of Tame the Ocean (book 2) into a Scrivener file then get... dare I say it... kraken. Here be pirates. And stuff. Arrrrrr.

I can't wait to show this to you.

It is done. I've just handed in the revisions for Call the Fire. This book has broken me in all the right places.

This makes me happy. And yes, this one is available internationally – TWD meets GoT but sans the gratuitous schmexxors.

I've had a long day. I am comforted by my current view.

The Art & Making of Highlander Features Never-Before-Seen Photos of Movie SuperHeroHype is debuting an exclusive look at The Art & Making of Highlander, a first-of-its-kind coffee table book.

Welp. I am gonna be $50 poorer soon.

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Garyn has perfected the Resting Inquisitor Face.

These two...