Lockdown: Tokyo Drift #2 – GCSE to Grimdark

I had a new short story published this week. It's called 'The Only Cure', and it's a nice dark piece about a plague doctor in a pseudo-medieval world, generally having a miserable time of things. I wrote the story while in Edinburgh last year on a nice little writing retreat (back in one of those …

‘The Only Cure’ – Grimdark Magazine #25

I've mentioned this a couple of times recently, but it's finally here for real: my new story in Grimdark Magazine #25! Grimdark Magazine presents the darker, grittier side of fantasy and science fiction. Each quarterly issue features established and new authors to take you through their hard-bitten worlds alongside articles, reviews and interviews. Our stories …

Lockdown: Tokyo Drift #1 – Short Stories and Long Games

Well, here we go again. Again. Getting a little bored of these lockdowns now, but at least there might be some kind of hope on the horizon this time... In somewhat more positive news, I should have another short story out very soon (as in next week!) - and my own copy of the latest …

2021: Stuff To Do (To Start With)

Now I'm not going to make a massive list of resolutions and promises that spans the entire year, because like most of us I've got no bloody clue what's going to happen in the next few months, let alone the whole year. But as a new year dawns, I have a few things on my …

Christmas Time-Warp

Forgot it was Sunday. Oops. Time flows even more weirdly at Christmas time than in... well, 2020. I would love to write a proper update, but in truth I've spent the last week doing as little as physically possible: eating a lot of food, reading some books, and building a bloody massive Lego set. Thanks, …

Instantaneous Photograms – General Update

Well, Christmas will be weird, it seems. Thankfully I intended to spend my time off playing videogames and eating food regardless of circumstances, so not that much has actually changed. Still a bit frazzled by it all, though, so forgive me for a short update-y post this week. Perhaps unwisely, I have decided to venture …

Review – The Short Story Teller

A very comprehensive review of Ad Luna has been posted by Ethan Haines over at The Short Story Teller. He and I might disagree over how we define science-fiction, but given how much he liked the book ("one of the rising stars of indie fantasy and science fiction"!) I'm not going to complain at all! …

Festive Reading List: Not Actually That Festive

My to-be-read pile has grown significantly over the last month or two - partly because of people giving me a few books for my birthday, and partly because I also have a Kindle and no literary impulse control. But I'll try and get through a chunk of my 'Unread' folder and my physical pile before …

Suddenly I’m In Stuff

I don't know. You spend months slogging away at your keyboard, writing and submitting short stories and novels and all manner of writings that never see the light of day... and then suddenly two of them get accepted at once. I posted last week about being published in the latest issue of Shoreline of Infinity …

Lockdown 2: Isolation Boogaloo #4 – Everyone Keeps Dying

David Prowse died last night. He was 85, so it was a good run, in fairness, but still. It seems like a lot of good people have been getting old lately. But the rest of those people weren't Darth Vader. Image from Wookiepedia Ok, so Prowse wasn't all of Vader. He was the man in …