Category Archives: writing

Exciting News!

Posted on September 7, 2011 by

My short story, ‘The Will to Live’, has been short-listed for the Dark Fiction Magazine Epic Flash Fiction Contest. I am most excited about this and really hope to win, but I’ll be thrilled if this is as far as … Continue reading →

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Writing News: The Giant

Posted on July 31, 2011 by

After really helpful and insightful comments from the awesome Steve Cooper, N K Kingston, Paul Stephenson, and Derek Muir, who carefully read through all 25,000 words, I have now performed the final, pre-submission edits on my novella, The Giant. Credit … Continue reading →

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The Giant, redrafted

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

After reading through the whole thing again I have tightened the earlier chapters and was able to identify the point at which the Suck started. Surprisingly, it was only a couple of pages from the end, which was good. I … Continue reading →

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Genre For Japan

Posted on March 21, 2011 by

On Thursday, the amazing Amanda Rutter of Floor to Ceiling Books asked Twitter: ‘Can the spec fiction community not to do something like #AuthorsforJapan?’ I’d been wondering much the same thing, and so had several others. The upshot of the … Continue reading →

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We Are the Champions, My Friends…

Posted on February 21, 2011 by

So, I was totally planning on hacking away at the cliff-face of The Giant this evening anyway, but spurred on by my fiction publication, I decided to sit down, shut up, and get the bloody thing done. And it is. … Continue reading →

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The Twelfth Day – Christmas has risen from the grave…

Posted on February 21, 2011 by

I was just in the middle of composing a post about how we should all be giving a little love to our free genre podcasts and ezines, and on looking up the link for Hub, I saw that a new … Continue reading →

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Why sorting through old notes sucks

Posted on February 12, 2011 by

As you may be aware, if you’ve been following my twitter feed, I’ve recently had a damp catastrophe that’s attacked about 8 years worth of notes. Some of these matter more than others, but given that I’ve been through a … Continue reading →

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Names, Places, and Superheroes

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

So, I’ve got this superhero novel idea floating around in my head, and it’s a bit of a new territory for me. I’m an avid consumer of most types of superhero media, but I’ve never tried to write it before. … Continue reading →

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Year End Review, Part 3: the Writing

Posted on January 3, 2011 by

Is it indulgent to have three posts about the end of the year? Maybe, I don’t know. It was a long year, and I wanted to try and deal with it without my usual barely intelligible splurge where topics are … Continue reading →

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Editing Achieved!

Posted on December 13, 2010 by

So, you may recall that a few weeks ago I submitted to Dark Fiction Magazine’s The Twelve Days of Christmas anthology, and if you’re following me on Twitter, you probably know that I didn’t make the cut. But they gave … Continue reading →

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