I usually try, as much as I can, to keep real life off this blog, but not today. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one transfixed by the live news feed covering the London riots. Please, let’s get one thing straight. This is NOT civil unrest. This is wanton violence. Gangs of thugs are waging […]
Photo Prompt 45
Latest prompt, ready and waiting. If you want to use the prompt, all I ask is that you include a link to this entry and a credit to me for the photograph, and that you post a link to your story in the comments box below so I can see what you’ve come up with! […]
Friday Flash – A Hero Comes Along
I’ve taken this story down as it’s now out for submission!
Are digital magazine subscriptions the future?
I came across this post on the io9 blog, and actually went “SQUEE!” when I read the announcement. It seems that the seminal fiction magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, is going digital. It’ll be available for the Kindle, with both a stripped down free option, or a subscription to all of the […]
Western Whodunnit Dust and Death available now
Do you remember those Choose Your Own Adventures books from when you were a kid? You were dropped into a narrative scenario, and the choices you made at the end of each page determined the course of the story. Well, they’re back. Sort of. Here we have the online version! Read the story, and click […]
Review Policy
You may have noticed that I’ve reviewed a fair few works of fiction lately. Most of them are by writers that I talk to online, and whose work I want to champion. Sometimes I’ll review books by writers I don’t know, and sometimes I review books about writing – I’m tricksy like that. Now, I […]
