Category: Articles

Somerset Celebration of Literature

Sometimes, after looking forward to something you’ve heard so much about, the reality can be a let down. The Somerset Celebration of Literature DEFINITELY wasn’t in that category. It lived up to my expectations, and more. I’ve just arrived home after three wonderful days (March 16 to 18) and...

The Joy of Steampunk

I’m reposting some articles I wrote a while ago. This one featured on the Random House blog in 2009. I love reading, and writing, steampunk. I’ve been fascinated by the whole Victorian/Edwardian era in fiction ever since reading Conan Doyle (the professor Challenger books as well as Sherlock Holmes)...

New website, blog!

Welcome to the new look Michael Pryor website – now with blog! Thanks to the very talented Angelo Dracoulis of AC&A, everything Michael Pryor related is now easily accessible in this one place, and looking good. The name? ‘Narrative Transport’ is the best description I’ve read of that wonderful...

Many and various

After having finished the draft of my top secret Work in Progress, I’ve been busying myself with: an article about YA literature for Queensland Writers’ Group a Short Story for a forthcoming Junior Secondary anthology a rewrite of a novelette about fishing and television going through proof pages of...