365 Shorts – second update

So, back on December 10th I posted this. In a nutshell, I set myself a challenge to read 365 short stories during 2013. And I expected to fail. I made a small change to the rules, deciding to start my year on December 1st, 2012 and run till November 30th, 2013, to...

A Killer Among Demons is now ‘e-vailable’

I stole that blog post title from Angela Slatter, who I share the table of contents with in this fantastic anthology. The antho is called A Killer Among Demons and it’s out now from Dark Prints Press. That table of contents is pretty awesome: Stephen M Irwin –...

Dreaming of Djinn in the house

Look at the pretty shiny. Those are my contributor copies of Dreaming of Djinn that arrived this morning. Edited by the brilliant Liz Grzyb and published by Ticonderoga Publications, this is an anthology of stories inspired by The Thousand and One Nights. Isobelle...

New publications like buses

It’s a funny old game, this writing business. High highs and crushing lows. Hours of toil for seemingly no return, wondering why we bother, then something happens that reminds us exactly why we bother. And I don’t know if this is the case for other...

Book day nerves and why they’re a good thing

I’m trepidatious. Kinda nerve-wracked. The novella I’ve co-authored with David Wood, Dark Rite, is due for release tomorrow. Hopefully it will become available then, or very soon after. I’ll be sure to let you know. And because of its imminent...