Today’s internet is a wild frontier where new ways of doing harm are being invented every day. If crime fiction is to keep pace with the world, it needs to embrace technology, not shy from it.
VERIFY: ‘Do you know who I am?’ in The Independent
The government's launch of an online identity management system echoes the ill-fated 'Digital Citizen' project from my novel Sockpuppet. I wrote a piece about this for The Independent.
BOT: ‘Je Suis Tay’ on Pornokitsch
I couldn't resist writing something about the very public meltdown of Microsoft's chatbot, Tay. It's just too close to the events in my novel, Sockpuppet. You can read my piece, 'Je Suis Tay', on Pornokitsch.
BACON: An engineer of the silver screen
PULP: Why I still love paper
Each time I finished a draft of my first novel, Sockpuppet, I went onto the self-publishing site lulu.com and ordered a physical paperback copy. A limited edition of one, in a plain white cover, with me its only reader.