MIME – Coming 2018

Posted on 1st October 2017By Chrissey

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...

The Star Coin Prophecy

Posted on 24th April 2017By Chrissey

When local science reporter Ruth Anders gets invited to a national press conference for the Kepler project, she knows it’s going to be a memorable experience. But nothing could prepare | Read more...

The Dark Half of the Year

Posted on 24th April 2017By Chrissey

The North Bristol Writers return for a second anthology of tales, this time set in the spookier months and with a ghostly theme. With stories by several published and a | Read more...

Age of Savagery – NEW April 2018

Posted on 11th June 2018By Chrissey

The world of Genodd is a placed filled with mystery. The Eldar races have gone, leaving behind feuding barbarian tribes. Loosely affiliated into clans, they wander a world filled with | Read more...

Stop judging me and cut my damn hair!

Posted on22nd February 20172 Comments

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…

24 Books in 12 Months – A Reading Challenge for 2017

Posted on15th February 2017Leave a comment

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…

FILM REVIEW: “Arrival” – Simply outstanding 10/10

Posted on9th December 201625th April 2017Leave a comment

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 Tip on How to Handle Edits and Critiques

Posted on21st October 201624th April 2017Leave a comment

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…

On Author Voice vs Editors

Posted on19th October 201624th April 2017Leave a comment

What is your author voice? How do you develop it and bring it to the fore? It’s a tricky question and one many authors struggle with. I myself struggle to reconcile | Read more…

EU Referendum – Don’t Vote Leave in Anger

Posted on22nd June 201624th April 2017Leave a comment

I am not an expert on the UK-EU relationship. I don’t know whether we would be better of in or out in the long run. Most of the “facts” being | Read more…

Featured Flash Fiction and Short Stories

Flash Fiction: Proof

“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...

Microfiction: Colonist

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...

Microfiction: House Mouse

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...