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We are one step closer to the world’s first unauthorized but completely legal James Bond anthology today: here is the table of contents for LICENCE EXPIRED: The Unauthorized James Bond. There are 19 stories altogether from fantastic writers. My co-editor and partner Madeline Ashby has written more about the road we’ve traversed so far at […]

Lawrence Nickle, 1931-2014, photo by Liz Lott It’s funny the things that pre-occupy one on Father’s Day. In the best of worlds, the day would be spent talking, hanging out, maybe a bit of tippling with the old man. But that is not the world we inhabit today. My father, Lawrence, died just a few

You thought we were just monologuing when we said we’d be doing an anthology of unauthorized James Bond stories? Hah. Not so. LICENCE EXPIRED: The Unauthorized James Bond is open for unsolicited submissions, until the end of May. Madeline Ashby, my co-editor and other things too, have already got a couple of stories in the

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”-Terry Pratchett I did meet Sir Terry Pratchett–a very long time ago, in 1990 at a science fiction convention in Toronto. I was doing arts journalism at the time, and had hooked in with the publicist at H.B. Fenn,  who was

We are still waiting on stories. But in the meantime, we have a cover for LICENCE EXPIRED: THE UNAUTHORIZED JAMES BOND. As is the case with all the very best covers, it is by ChiZine wunderkind Erik Mohr.

 “The bitch is dead now.” -From Casino Royale by Ian Fleming So here’s a funny story: in 2015, and only in Canada and a few other countries, James Bond entered the public domain. Not the constantly morphing fellow from the movies, now.  That’s firmly in the possession of Eon for the forseeable future. But the

The turning of the calendar turned out to be a good thing for Knife Fight and Other Struggles, at least in terms of reviews. In the days leading up to, and the days following, my second story collection released in November showed up in a lovely cluster of review outlets, with some very good reception.

Big news: this week, my first novel (co-written with Karl Schroeder), The Claus Effect is available for the first time in e-book form. It’s a new version from ChiZine Publications, with a fantastic new cover (see below), and a never-before-seen epilogue.  You can purchase and download it here. The Claus Effect is an old book—to the

In less than two weeks now, Knife Fight and Other Struggles is coming out, on October 28–a week later than the originally-planned October 21 drop date, and a day after I spend the evening writing non-fiction about the results of the 2014 Toronto mayoral race. One way or another, it will mark the end of

A week ago now, I was in Ottawa along with Madeline Ashby, to read at the ChiSeries Ottawa September reading. Silver Stag Entertainment was also there, and made a very good video recording of my reading of “Drakeela Must Die”, one of the thirteen stories in the new collection, Knife Fight and Other Struggles.   I