I’ve been quite excited about this for some time, but I’ve finally pleased to announce that I’ve got a story in the new Bloody Parchment collection, The Root Cellar and Other Stories! Isn’t that a fabulous cover? I’m proud to be associated with anything that looks like the Bride of Frankenstein. Edited by Nerine Dorman, […]
#FridayFlash – The Oldest Trick
Emascula the Great prowled around the stage, brandishing the first sword for the audience. Stella climbed into the ornate lacquered box, smiling and waving as she settled herself in. Only her head and feet were visible, her body replaced by the black cabinet. Emascula thrust the first sword into the box. Stella pulled an expression […]
How to Write Something New
There would appear to be three major ‘versus’ debates going on in publishing these days. You’ve got Self-publishing versus Traditional Models, there’s Work for Free versus Alternate Income Stream, and Pants versus Plotting. I’m not going into the first two, but the third is one with which I’ve wrestled for some time. The key pros […]
The Guns of Retribution available again!
I blogged last week about the fact that I’m selling the last of the print run for my pulp Western, The Guns of Retribution. These were the books published back in September 2011 when Pulp Press put the book out, and I would love for them to go to good homes. The last of the […]
Flowers on the Sill (Free Short Story)
Natasha had kept flowers on the windowsill in the front room for as long as I’d known her. She’d move the flowers around the house to suit her mood, but it was always the ones on the front room sill that gave the clues – yellow carnation for disappointment, or begonias for dark thoughts. She […]
Buy The Guns of Retribution as a paperback
Back in September 2011, my first novella was published by Pulp Press as both a paperback and a Kindle e-book. The Guns of Retribution has since been described as “a fun read”, an “an easily digestible page-turner”, and “a joy, containing all the action and adventure of an old school western”, while readers were warned […]
