A selection of images including the cover to Titanic Terastructures, A Quiet Afternoon 2, Thirty Years of Rain, New Maps, Shoreline of Infinity, K-Zine, Flotation Device and Magical Crime Scene Investigation. In the centre are two painted images, one of a frazzled ginger haired woman drinking tea and one of a Sikh gentleman holding a bucket and sword and facing pink tentacles

Brian M. Milton, SF&F writing and nonsense

Category: editing

  • The Circle and I: A haver

    Hello all. As you may be aware, I am once again working on an anthology of short stories for the Glasgow SF Writer’s Circle. Two years ago I was a junior part of the team who produced Gallus, a collection released to coincide with the Worldcon being in Glasgow. And it did, if I may…

  • 2024: The Year of the Editor

    Hello all, it’s December and so time for the annual roundup of my writing year, be it thick or thin. And this year has a hefty thickness. I have had three stories published, one about an old gnome, one about a shepherd and one about a talking cat. I also have a fourth due soon.…

  • Revelling in the editor’s power

    For ten years and more I’ve been writing stories, getting them critted by my local group, the Glasgow SF (where SF stands for Speculative Fiction, although it did start out as Science Fiction) Writers’ Circle and pinging them out willy-nilly into the universe and hoping that an editor will like them and publish them. To…

  • The Purple Patch Continues

    I’ve been oddly hanging back on announcing this one (damn weirdy paranoia) but last weekend I had another acceptance, this time from some lovely people at Crossed Genres. They are putting together a superhero anthology and I felt it needed some mention of Nitshill Bowling Club. It appears to be another step along my educational…