11:25am, 9th August 2019
It's August, and I've made zero new posts so far this year. Ouch.
In my defence, it has been a year. As was 2018. As was 2017. Hmm. But it'll let up at some point, right?
Right?
Herewith, then, a few overdue updates collected together as briefly as I can manage (he says, laughing)
TAGS: Dublin2019, interview, new story
2:04pm, 25th January 2016
C Stuart Hardwick was a Writers of the Future winner for Volume 30 (UK) and has a tradition of interviewing each year's group of winners.
His interview with me just went up on his blog. Go read it, and find out which fandom I used to write fan fiction in.
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TAGS: interview
Matt Dovey is a writer of short speculative fiction. He is very tall, very British, and probably drinking a cup of tea right now. His surname rhymes with “Dopey”, but any other similarities to the dwarf are purely coincidental. More →
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