Crow-Girl book

If you missed my last newsletter, the news is that I’ve released another book, Crow-Girl. This collects all of the online comic strips into one print volume, along with some experiments on style and character drawings. Available on Amazon.

Game Writing Talk

Next week – Friday 25th Jan – I’ve giving a talk on game writing at Hull University. Apparently, it’s now fully booked. While this is a good thing from my point of view, those of you who might have wanted to attend won’t be able to do so. I’m always happy to give talks – …

Bottom of Garden

Like Mother, Like Daughter

Nicola Jane hated everything about the countryside, but particularly the weird creatures that lived in it.  When she and Mum first moved here, to the middle of nowhere, she’d made those feelings as clear as humanly possible without actually printing them out and taping them to the bathroom mirror.  Her complaining, though, had done no …

Developing Thoughts Updated – Part 1

Oh Lucky Man… Still It’s been twelve years since I wrote the first of the original Developing Thoughts pieces, shortly after I turned freelance following eleven years with Revolution Software.  The time feels right to revisit the pieces I wrote at the time and either bring them up to date or reflect on how things …

Writers’ Guild press release

Following my new position as Chair of the Videogames Committee within the Writers’ Guild, I sent out a press release earlier: July 14th 2014 Re: Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, Videogames committee chair. Following the Guild’s AGM on Friday 4th July 2014, games writer Steve Ince has now taken up the position of chair of …

Game Writing Podcast

I took part in a game writing podcast recorded at this year’s London Screenwriters’ Festival, which has just been released.  Although I’m obviously biased, Tim, Tony, Rudolf and myself covered a lot of valuable points.  40 minutes of fun and insight.