Month: August 2024

Silence Before Thunder

“Rocks are no sharper in the dark.” HOUSE OF LIGHT is done*, and anyone who’s ever worked on anything creative will instinctively know what that asterisk means. Done* means I have a task list of about sixty items from my own testing and that of our invaluable beta testers, some of them as trivial as […]

Written by on August 29, 2024

The Secret Colours of the Sun

“Facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, they generally run away.” — Mervyn Bunter, Clouds of Witness (1926)   Facts are the bricks of life, but they need a few licks of paint before you want to look at them. Mr Gradgrind of Hard Times said: “Now, what I […]

Written by on August 23, 2024

BOOK OF YEARS

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY… On August 17th 2023, just before six o’clock in the evening, nervous glasses of wine in our trembling hands, cats winding demandingly round our trembling ankles, Lottie and I clicked the big green LAUNCH button for BOOK OF HOURS. (I believe we placed both our hands on the mouse.) In the […]

Written by on August 17, 2024

Lovecraftday 2024

UPDATE 20/08/2024: the giveaway is OVER and winners have been randomly selected! This year’s winners are: Grand prize: August MK Runners-up: Kristen B, Christopher G, Anthony H, Cat, Jason M Wildcards: Will E, Paul H, Elegiant, Andrew H, Julián, Matthew L, Sebastian-Benjamin T, Marco I, Agahnim, Matt F All winners have been emailed. Thanks to […]

Written by on August 13, 2024