Author name: John Allen

John is an award winning science fiction, horror and fantasy writer. He is also a public speaker and consultant and has worked with Time to Change - a campaign to end mental health stigma - and for Wellment - an organisation that delivers mental health at work training. He loves science fiction, fantasy and horror stories and novels. His work has appeared in Vector Magazine, Ink Pantry, Sci-Fi Bloggers, The Huffington Post and more. His short fantasy "Thanks for Applying" won an Honourable Mention Award in the Writers of the Future competition in 2017. HIs short horror "By the Boiler's Hand" was longlisted for the 2018 James White Award and won an Honourable Mention in the Writers of the Future competiton the same year. John has spoken at several events including the Nine Worlds Geekfest in London, Bristol Con 2018, and the Moorfields NHS Trust. He has delivered masterclasses on ending mental health stigma in the workplace for Time to Change. He lives with his wife and a pile of books in the UK.

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How Dating Inspired My First Book

Once upon a time a boy met a girl. They had a couple of really nice dates that ended pretty well.  Then she met up with her old boyfriend and all of a sudden boy becomes yesterday’s news.   Now at first glance you’d think boy would be upset at this.  But the truth is […]

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Ten Things Every Writer Should Know in 2014

My friend PP (Real name ‘Pritesh’ – we call him PP because it winds him up) was chatting about his pants earlier this week.  When he called, I couldn’t figure out why he kept banging on about pants and a poor mobile signal caused an odd moment where I wondered if he was going to

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NanoWrimo

It sounds like several words mangled together but in actual fact Nanowrimo stands for ‘National Novel Writing Month’.   Every November this incredibly nutty organisation runs a month long challenge.  The challenge itself is to write 50,000 words of a book within 1 month. Despite the slight inaccuracy of the title (there are writers participating

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Great advice on finishing a book

Being in the middle of writing a book at this moment, I find like most writers the material beginning to sour.  Characters start to become uninteresting, scenes make no sense and I end up going off on tangents all over the place.  On the worst days, I stop writing completely and allow my inner demon

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