all things keith brooke and infinity plus

Available now: Hindsights: a collection of the final seven collaborations between Eric Brown and Keith Brooke.

Over on his excellent blog, Tony Ballantyne recently explained why he’s dumping Microsoft Office, and I started to write a comment, but it became a bit too long, so now it’s here, down below this opening paragraph.

To the Stars and Back: Stories in Honour of Eric Brown: published on 24th May, what would have been Eric’s 64th birthday.

To mark publication day for Wormhole, written with Eric Brown, here’s a piece I wrote for the Crime Writers’ Association: * There’s a long tradition of mash-ups between the genres of crime and science fiction, going right back to the early days of SF, with

A lovely write-up of some Brooke & Brown projects in the latest PS Publishing newsletter.

“Brooke and Brown have crafted a thriller threaded with the complexities that are only possible in Science Fiction.”

A nice start to the new year: a new crime story in the January 2022 issue of Mystery Magazine, available now on Amazon in a paperback edition: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09P8KJTSJ?

One of the most often-repeated pieces of advice to writers is that you should write the book you would want to read, rather than chasing some idea of what readers might be looking for.

[Guest post by Stephen Palmer] What makes a man go out into his local wood to take photographs of fungi?