Mark Lawrence

  Just to minimise the number of people taken by surprise: As has long been advertised on the official SPFBO page, this year's SPFBO is ...

At 15, this blog is now older than Prince Jorg Ancrath for the majority of my debut novel! Although I spent 23 years as a research scient...

I thought I'd close out 2025 with a helpful info-graphic. As a side note ... 2025 sounds like the space-age future to me. I used to watc...

  I do this every year, so you can step back for more than a decade should you so choose. Here's the link to  2024 . Hooray! I have beat...

I often speculate on mortality - it might be a writer's curse, or just 'my thing', but I can't walk through a graveyard with...

The fantasy iceberg is world, history, character. The greatest proponent of it is JRR Tolkien. He gave us a one fat book (in three volume...

I'm not sure who this might interest, but there are always a few people who ask the sorts of questions that are partly answered in the d...