March / April Roundup

I only do this once every couple of months and it's not comprehensive, but for those of you who don't browse our archives here is a bit of a roundup of articles and highlights from the last two months.

Interviews
Andrew Newbound author of Demon Strike
Seanan McGuire author of the Toby Daye urban fantasy series and possibly invincible.
Steven Savile about writing Fantastic Tv and generally being a geeky fanboy
Stevie Watson who is a performance poet in the east midlands
Dan Wells chatted to me at World Horror and the audio is posted in full
Helen Burke is a performance poet from York

Events
In the last two months I attended the Writing Industries Conference and did a round up of other posts.
I also went to the World Horror Convention is Brighton so there are a series of posts covering that and again rounding up coverage.

Ravenous Romance
Isabel Roman talked about the hook
Elizabeth Coldwell looked at familiar faces sneaking into novels
Lisa Lane considered sexy writing
Trinity Blacio discusses diversity

The non ravenous wednesday's are now also all about writing as we welcomed a new member on board the team.
Check out Crouching Tiger, Hidden Meaning and A Tale of Psychopathic Chocolate Bunnies (looking at the when to show and when to tell in writing)
Vince is also providing a little visual humour on a Wednesday evening with the UnCovered series. Vince is seeking suggestions of covers he can mess with so drop us a line if you have any thoughts.

A full list of our features and articles can be found here but over the last two months a few of the general articles have been
A little OCD? - where I consider my obsessive emotional involvement with the success of certain books.
Chris interviewing regular reader and contest winner Jack C Young about his title for the little bit of fun contest.
Chris also asked us about our comfort reads
and Gav at nextread and I pitted ourselves against the SFX top 25 to see if we could do better.

Writers Reading
We love poking around bookshelves and in the last couple of months we have invaded the homes of
Kate Laity , Jon Mayhew , Michael Calvillo , MD Lachlan , Booksmugglers & James K Walker

Reviews:
Obviously reviews are what we are here for and there have been a reasonable number although, due to a serious case of post con blues my reading suffered for a couple of weeks.
MangaCat reviewed One Piece & Suzuka , Bletchley People
I covered Wintercraft , A local habitation , Eagle Rising , Old Man Scratch, Fantastic TV
Harbinger read The Drawing of Three ,
Chris looked at Horns , The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't tell
and plenty more.
You can check out full review lists by genre or by author's name. Updated regularly.