The latest #craftblogclub challenge has been to upcycle an item, giving something old some love. The challenge said furniture or homeware but I’m not allowed to touch the furniture in here and I don’t really have any homeware of my own. I did consider buying something small, so I trawled the secondhand shops in Heaton […]
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Free eBook Week
It’s Free eBook Week on Smashwords until Saturday 8 March, so I’m making two of my titles available. You can grab Checkmate & Other Stories, a collection of fifteen short tales, spanning fantasy, horror, sci fi and speculative fiction. Among other things, ‘Bleed Them Dry’ puts a new spin on vampires, talking corpses tell their […]
New Crocheted Handwarmers
I haven’t posted about crafting in a while so I thought I’d address that with this post, particularly since I’ve finally made myself something decent to wear using crochet. I sort of taught myself the basics of crochet a while ago but so far I’ve restricted myself to amigurumi (including a cute Cthulu I made […]
#FridayFlash – The Dead-house
This story has been taken down as it is now out for submission!
#FridayFlash – Charger
I don’t want to be out in the boat, on this lake, but Olly thought it would be romantic. He’s sitting back, enjoying the sun. I try not to look at the water, but it seizes my gaze and forces me to look. I see flashes of something below – it can’t be, but it […]
#BookReview – Lupa Bella
Of all the ‘traditional’ monsters, I’ve always liked mummies the most, but I’ve often felt werewolves had potential that wasn’t always used. Many of the books I’ve read have tried to turn werewolves into super creatures, imbued with powers and abilities that put them on the same playing field as vampires – but this, in […]
