Edward Woodward RIP

Sad to relate, Edward Woodward has died, aged 79. Like most of my peers (born in the 50s, like) I first encountered him in the series, Callan, where he played the eponymous, hard-bitten intelligence agent. For me, though, his most outstanding role was that of Jim Kyle, dissident journalist in the BBC series, 1990, which depicted [...]

Orphaned Worlds: The Copy-Edit Two-Step

Got the  copyedit through from the litpixies at Orbit, and as always eye-openers come thick and fast. With emphasis on the word thick. Just goes to show – you really do need other eyes to look over that great mound of words and make sure that infelicities are hounded to their lairs and dragged out [...]

Set Phasers Tae Malky!

As some of you may know, the Humanitys Fire books feature (drum roll)….Scots In Space! Not that I would need any prompting to do such a thing, but the BBC Scotland comedy series, Chewin The Fat, certainly played its part with an inspired sketch from the 2002 Hogmanay special, which you can download from this page [...]

Blog Oddity

As you can see, this blog comes out courtesy of the WordPress outfit, and the controls and dashboard provide me, the blog owner, with interesting stats and figures. Including search engine terms that people use to find this blog. Among these is someone who just keys in my name – only they misspell it every time. Instead [...]