Author: Mark

  • I’ve collected some of my fantasy stories in Dreams and Visions, available via Amazon    It’s got monsters from the sea, pens with a mind of their own and a shop selling dreams, amongst other things. It would be great to hear what you think about it and, if you like it, please leave a…

  • The fish and chip diaries

    I’ve been messing about with my wordpress sites and I tried to change the theme on one of them – something experimental I started last year reviewing the (many) fish and chip meals I’d had. Well the themes switch ended up effectively destroying the site but fortunately I didn’t lose the blog entries themselves. As…

  • I’ve just launched a writer’s facebook page, where I’ll be updating and posting from time to time. Why now? Well I’m about to publish a short story collection and, y’now, social media. For that reason, I’m likely to me more active here and on Twitter as well. Oh and I’ve now got an Author page…

  • K-Zine have kindly published my short story ‘Twins’ – out today (http://www.kzine.co.uk). Twins is a separated siblings tale speculating that their uncanny ability to communicate with each other (one person two bodies)  might extend even if they were separated by light years.

  • Currently at the procrastination stage on my novel – fortunately, though, that seems to push me towards previously unfinished short stories – two more done now, ready to go. On publications I’ve had two stories published since last I updated here – a piece in Strange Fictions and something in Zetetic: A Record of Unusual…

  • I have a story out in the latest issue of The Colored Lens

  • I’ve just sold ‘Twins’ to Kzine – to be published sometime next year.

  • I write book reviews for SF Concatenation and you can find them here.

  • Writing news and random thoughts from Mark Bilsborough