Fannish Obsessions and Feelgood Fiction

I’ve written about fandom a lot, and I’m sure I write at least one blog post a year where I explain just how much an impact falling in love with books, films, TV shows and plays has had on my writing life, but since it’s happened again after I saw The Force Awakens and The Last […]

Le Geek, c’est chic (and so the Force Awakens)

**CAUTION! ONE SPOILER FOR STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI AT THE END OF THIS POST** OK, I admit it. And I’m sure this will come as a total surprise (not). I have always been a bit of a fangirl. Back from the time I first encountered the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon as an eight year old, to journeys […]

John Wick – review and fanfiction.

As usual, I watched a film and thought about it a lot. I liked both John Wick 1 and 2, and not just because Keanu Reeves is extraordinarily good to watch, and still criminally underrated. There was a scene in the first film that got me thinking, and a short piece of fanfiction was the […]

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy…again.

The more I obsess think about this film, the more I am tempted to get all fannish about it. I haven’t made a proper fanvid in ages (probably since I started writing the novel), but this film wouldn’t leave me alone, and now I’ve started to read the book, I find myself thinking even more […]