If you’re a regular here and in the habit of reading the fine print you may have noticed my arrival and sudden burst of posting. This is because I am now the ‘person who puts stuff on the CI fiction blog’. It’s a snappy job title. I came up with it myself.

I could write you a small epic about the human connections, modest events and rather lacklustre coincidences that underpin my being here, but it might suffice to say there was some of that. I have written a novel for Top Hat – Intelligent Designing for Amateurs, and I’m very involved with Moon Books, having written a few books for them and interviewed lots of people for that blog. I also have my own blog – www.druidlife.wordpress.com which has a startling number of people following it. Those numbers may well be what made me attractive to the CI folk.

I like blogging – I do it every day on my own blog, plus regular showings on a site local to me and innately political. I write monthly for Sage Woman and irregularly for Patheos. I could stop any time, obviously. If I wanted to. I really could. I’m not in the least bit addicted.

I am however passionate about bringing you (whoever you are...) interesting, content laden posts to delight you. I’m also enthusiastic about promoting good stuff. The world’s marketing budgets seem largely devoted to pedalling the bland, the overblown, the too familiar, the mind-numbing. The things famous enough not to need much advertising, get all the air time. Right across the board in the creative industries, we hear too little about new, original and innovative stuff and far too much about the tedious re-boots of things which are so last century that we should be ashamed of them.

Yes, I do have a large, well padded prejudice in favour of all the things you won’t find in a bargain bin at your local supermarket. Yes, I am an evangelist for creativity. Yes, I am a bit of a zealot when it comes to supporting niche work that defies expectation. I also hate it when I can read the blurb for a book and work out most of the plot. I want fiction written with love and imagination, not because the marketing department reckons wizards are this year’s big thing. I want books that have soul, and insight and richness, not yet another rip off of last year’s new big thing.

If you feel the same way, stick around, there is going to be awesomeness.

 

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