Damien Walter

Bloody Hell

The mad typist in full. This will be me after week one of this years big push on the novel. Thanks to Nienke for reminding me about it.

It really is all the big guys fault. My Christmas break has become unexpectedly long. I’m at home shivering and coughing with the third cold of the season. Inbetween boiling the lemsip and sleeping I’ve been scratching a few notes for a short story and wondering how I ever got into this writing thing inContinue reading “PKD Made Me Do It”

Damn Xmas Again

Tis’ the season of mass animal slaughter. I tire of wishing festive cheer to the world so I’m just going to warn all and sundry not to gorge to deeply and hope to see you soon on the other side. Bah-humbug Damien G Walter

I am William Gibson!

I am: William Gibson The chief instigator of the “cyberpunk” wave of the 1980s, his razzle-dazzle futuristic intrigues were, for a while, the most imitated work in science fiction. Which science fiction writer are you?

Red Pen XXX

I’ve started on my first set of edits for the BBC. In all I have to slice a little over a thousand words out of Cthul-You and elimate all swearing. There is so much swearing in this story that my manuscript now looks like it was attacked by a red pen wielding maniac. I’m debatingContinue reading “Red Pen XXX”

Anita Blake – Vampire Hunter

Guilty Pleasures & The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K Hamilton I’m a virulent defender of genre fiction and the trash aesthetic. I’ve literally risked life and limb to advocate the cause of all things pulp against the literary establishment. Only last week I stood in a classroom full of A-Level English teachers and proclaimed AlanContinue reading “Anita Blake – Vampire Hunter”

The Beeb

A few weeks ago now I made a blind submission to the BBC. It was blind in that I wasn’t sure when I sent off the story exactly what I was submitting for. When I did track down the submission guidelines I realised the story I had e-mailed the day before was a little tooContinue reading “The Beeb”

Dusting Down

‘Dust’ is an online hypertext I wrote in 1999 towards the end of my BA. I had completely forgotten about it until Yahoo e-mailed me this morning to say that they were going to delete it from their server! You can read it here

NaNoWriMo Accepts My Official Surrender

NaNoWriMo comes to a close today and as the fog of war clears I’m in no way surprised to find myself on the casulaty list rather than the honour roll. I’d like to say I went out in a blaze of glory but the truth is it was more a case of being shot inContinue reading “NaNoWriMo Accepts My Official Surrender”

Momentum and Submission Anxiety

I’ve just got confirmation from John Klima, editor of Electric Velocipede magazine that my short story ‘Momentum’ will be published in issue 13, debuting in November 2007, just before World Fantasy Con. Waiting a year to see the story in print will probably try my patience but knowing that the magazine will be on saleContinue reading “Momentum and Submission Anxiety”

Tumbling Uphill

Well I’m back. The holiday was fantastic, not least getting to see the sea, which living in Leicester I had begun to believe was no more than an unsubstantiated rumour. Fantastic but surprisingly hard work. Hills. Rain. Darkness. No sooner had we awoken than it started to get dark. We then had to cycle upContinue reading “Tumbling Uphill”

Tumbling Downhill

Holiday time. Lydia and I are going to throw ourselves up and down mountains on bikes in Wales. Maybe I’ll break something but probably not. No posts until I return as the welsh hovel has no internet or even a phone. I’m told we will be washing in the crystal waters of a fast runningContinue reading “Tumbling Downhill”