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Happy New Year and, blimey, is it 2026 already? I seem to have been (ahem) too distracted to update here for a while, but new year’s resolutions and all… What kind of new year will it be? Well hopefully for me a year full of creativity but also some personal non-writing challenges, like the Boston…
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I’ve a story in the works at Flash in a Flash – all about lurking darkness, Demon in the Basement is short but it’s one to linger. Look for it on May 6th.
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I have a new story out now in the fourth edition of Synthetic Reality magazine. Two Worlds is a story about life, death and choices. It’s fantasy, probably, though who’s to say what’s real and what isn’t? Certainly not the poor guy trapped in a world he barely recognises, where darkness encroaches… You can find…
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I’m pleased to say a couple of my short stories have just been published and both are available for free online. One’s a nice long piece of space opera (Rox) just out through Lost Colony and one’s a dimension bending flash piece (Shimmer) out now on the Theme of Absence site. Hope you like them…
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My fantasy collection, Dreams and Visions is available for free at Amazon US at the moment (also available in paperback). It’s packed with stories like Jennings’ dreams and Keepsakes, where you can buy someone else’s dreams or sell your own – but beware, you may find you’ve sold more than you bargained for, and no…
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After a hiatus I’m back with a rundown of my alphabetical fiction favourite authors. I’m going for P.D. James for J – largely because of her science fiction classic Children of Men, set in a near future world where fertility rates have plummeted and the remaining children are prized. Society begins to break down as…
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I’ve got a new story up at Every Day Fiction: Disorientation. It’s a body swapping mind menting slice of confusion and chaos. I’ve also sold stories recently to The Fifth Di… and Penumbric, though the first is behind a paywall and the second’s not out yet. I’ll post a link when it is.
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Futures A collection As the world heats we slowly retreat under domes and behind impenetrable walls, waiting for the end of days. But not everyone is ready to die. There are choices – abandon the world or rebuild it? But at what cost? That’s Valentine’s dilemma. What if you’re outside the domes, the planet frying…
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So, continuing my occasional trawl through my bookselves to find my A-Z favourites, H comes pummeling me over the head with countless options. Ask me tomorrow and I might go for Peter F Hamilton, because he’s so damn readable. But he’d be nowhere without Robert A Heinlein and this is certainly a case of giving…
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In my A-Z run through of my favourite writers on my bookshelves (real and virtual) G throws up a conundrum or two. The contenders: Neil Gaiman, William Gibson and Ursula LeGuin. Surely the mother of Earthsea and the father of cyberpunk deserve the shout? Well, yes, probably, but they’re sharing an initial with Neil Gaiman.…
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