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Pandora opened her box and let out all the evils that afflict mankind and the last thing left inside the box was hope. Hope – a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen Hope can be a cruel master and something all writers must struggle with. You hope your writing isContinue reading “The last evil is hope”

  So my story “Masks,” from The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors volume 1 has been chosen by Ellen Datlow for The best Horror of the Year volume 11 which I’m blown away by. It’s like going to a party and being surrounded by beautiful, famous people and wondering why you’re there, why you were invited. I meanContinue reading “Success and Failure”

In June i’ll be in Edinburgh for the inaugral Cymera festival where I’ll be interviewing Richard Morgan about his new book and also Anna Stephens and Cameron Johnston It looks like a great festival and they’re doing a writing competition with Shoreline of Infinity which is a great opportunity for new writers to get noticed.    

So this week I’ve mostly been busy doing a blog tour which included some extracts, and interview and a couole of reviews: PainPals here Ramblings of a writer here I also had a #smallpressbighstories review over on Fantasy Faction

I have submitted a new short story for an anthology (fingers crossed on that). Am working through the edits on another (which means it’s been accepted) and there has been a “things are happening” update on a third anthology. So the short story machine is still occasionally spitting out writing despite the fact the novelContinue reading “What passes for news”

After the Fesival of Literature came a vacation and after the vacation came Christmas and New Year and my birthday and suddenly it’s 2019 and I haven’t updated the blog for almost 4 months! I’m busy reading through all the stories we got for Forgotten Sidekicks (a little patience is required from submitters but we’llContinue reading “What’s the point of a blog if you never add to it?”

The Fantasycon programme has been published. I’ll be on two panels on the Friday: 4.30pm – The Role of Class in Science Fiction and Fantasy Kevin McVeigh (m), Rosanne Rabinowitz, Peter Sutton, Laura Mauro, Alison Baker 9.30pm – Occult and Supernatural Adventures Peter Sutton (m), Mike Chinn, Sue Tingey, Sara Jayne Townsend, Georgina Bruce SadlyContinue reading “FantasyCon 2018”

Timon Singh loves action films, specifically 1980’s action films. He loves the vilains in those action films. So he set out to interview as many as he could – from Superman 2 to Die Hard, from Time Bandits to Indiana Jones Singh has tracked down a host of bad guys, and 1 gal. The bookContinue reading “Born to be Bad – Review”

If you’ve been following my blog for a while you’ll know that a couple of years ago I had a copyright battle with someone who wanted to use my work for his profit without my permission, without attributing the work as mine and without paying me a penny. After a long and acrimonious battle, inContinue reading “Copyright Directive”