I Resolve Not to Make A New Year’s Resolution… just to look forward

What kind of year has 2014 been for you?  I hope it has been a good one.  Did you make any New Year Resolutions this time last year – and if you did, did you keep them, or flounder before the New Year had barely arrived?  I don’t make resolutions on New Year’s Eve anymore.

THEY MADE IT! ‘KOSMOS’ IS GO!

You might recall this post I made almost two weeks ago, about an exciting new sci-fi drama project from ‘Third Contact’ creator Simon Horrocks – ‘KOSMOS’, a six-part web series. I’m very happy to say that with just a few days to go before the deadline, the target of £30,000 was met and ‘KOSMOS’ will go into production

Looking Backwards to Christmas – writing Xmas cards needn’t be a chore!

Christmas can be a difficult time of year – I don’t think anyone would argue with that, would they? For wives and mothers and home organisers in general, the month (in plural if you are really organised, which I never am) leading up to December 25th can be hectic and stressful, as the Christmas Machine

LAST TRAIN TO BUDAPEST

Originally posted on msthomason:
Last Train to Budapest (2010 dir. Lee Deaville) was a short film documenting the life of one Hungarian trying to escape the oppressive regime during the Hungarian revolution in 1956. When composing this score I tried to use traditional Hungarian folk music as inspiration, for example in the piece “Variation on…

Create a Science – Fiction show

It’s often difficult to ask people for money – but when the reward is something this special – to be part of a science-fiction show from the very beginning- then it feels less like begging and more ‘hey, how would you like to be a part of something really special?’  So, with that in mind,

Why we should never give up on our dreams… why crowdfunding works

Originally posted on from here to infinity and beyond:
If someone had told my fifteen-year-old self that I would one day create an appreciation society for a favourite science-fiction show (a club which is still going strong thirty-four years later) or that I would be invited to visit the set, go to sci-fi conventions and meet authors,…