Hello, Goodreads and Social Media Friends!
Just a quick blog post to say hi to my friends on Goodreads and social media, new and old. As a little thank you for your friendship, I’m running a free Kindle promo on one of my books. The most popular will be free to download for 24 hours when the poll closes, so go…
News Update
A quick round-up of latest news about the books: The British Library I’m pleased to announce that nearly all of my recent publications have now been requested by The British Library, GREY NOISE and THE KNIGHTS OF SNOWDONIA being the most recent. SEPPUKU Launch My latest collection of short stories was published in May and…
Grey Noise Now Available in Paperback
Buy UK readers buy GREY NOISE HERE US readers buy GREY NOISE HERE What is the Grey Noise? Grey noise is random noise whose frequency spectrum follows a psychoacoustic equal loudness curve. In other examples, we can find pink noise, brown noise and the most familiar one, white noise. For our protagonist, Patrick McDonagh, it’s…
The Horseman’s Dream Tops Amazon Bestseller Chart
In an entirely unexpected turn of events, the paperback version of The Horseman’s Dream recently smashed its way to the #1 spot in Amazon’s Religious and Spiritual Fantasy Bestseller chart! This was most welcome news after working on the novel for nearly 20 years. Beating luminaries such as H. G. Wells, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman…
Hashtag Junket Wins Writing Magazine Short Story/Flash Fiction Competition
2020 is off to a flying start with another writing competition win, this time for a 500 word story called “Hashtag Junket”. It takes place on an island to which an actor has been invited to promote their latest film.Or so they think. Writing Magazine hope to publish the results in an upcoming Competition Special:…
Short Story “Chop Chop” Wins Writing Magazine Competition
Pleased to announce that “Chop Chop” has won 1st place in Writing Magazine‘s Single Character short story competition. Writing Magazine described the story as “chilling” and will publish it in the March issue. The idea came from a 5 a.m. walk in the snow, at which time the local butcher was the only other person…
Short Story Do Not Disturb Wins Second Place in Writing Magazine Competition
Thrilled to announce that my short story about a suicide in a hotel room has won second place in Writing Magazine’s competition. The judges gave it a lovely review, which you can read alongside the story itself here. Or you can read about a dystopian near-future in which celebrities are cloned for prostitution here. Or…
“Feuilles Mortes” Shortlisted in Writing Magazine’s Poetry Competition
Delighted to have made the shortlist for this one, being the first poetry competition I’ve entered in a few years. Thanks to Writing Magazine. It will be available to read in a collection called The Crystal Barrel, which I am compiling for 2020. You can read “Feuilles Mortes” for yourself here. Find more poetry here.…
The Horseman’s Dream: A Tale of Conspiracy, Corruption, Cruelty and Conditioning in Post-Disaster Britain
It’s taken me nearly 20 years to write The Horseman’s Dream: its origins lying somewhere in the ashes of the Twin Towers and the ensuing maelstrom of disinformation. It’s about something good that still exists in a bad world. This is the best story I can come up with to frame the notion of a…
The Horseman’s Dream Update
It’s taken me years of drafts, scraps and rewrites to get to this point. Since I was (and still am) no scientist, I read psychology books and articles daily during those years for the sole purpose of writing The Horseman’s Dream. I studied other fields of science, met with psychologists, military veterans and brushed up on my theology, or divinity,…
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