Death is no less scary when you can’t see it coming. My first novel, Mime will be out next year. Book one in the Weird News series it follows Elliot | Read more...

For the last two or three years I have been in a kind of progress limbo. Various time and financial commitments have forced me to side line my own personal | Read more…
Earlier this year, having been unscrupulously recruited into producing a story for their second anthology “The Dark Half of the Year”, I moved from the tentative fringe to being a | Read more…
A little rant about why I hate going to the hairdresser Four months after my last trip to a hairdresser, I still find myself replaying the memory whenever I wash | Read more…
I really wanted to take on a reading challenge this year, to try to add diversity to what I read. I looked at several I found online but none of | Read more…
Arrival is sci-fi tale told with an air of intense realism. Alien objects appear around the world and humans are “invited” to check them out and try to figure out | Read more…
A little bit of potted “wisdom” based on my own experience of receiving edits and critiques When confronted with edits, you invariably won’t like what the editor has suggested. They | Read more…
“I can’t die.” Even before I say it I know you’ll never believe me, but it’s true. “I can prove it.” I turn the knife over in my hand and | Read more...
Between the pale green, silver-spined fronds, round stems probe the air with tiny explorers at their tips. It’s pointless. The plant sits on top of a filing cabinet in an | Read more...
The food was at the back of a small, white box. Mushkin put her foot on the smooth surface and tested it. Nothing bad happened. She sniffed and felt with | Read more...