I walk along the street towards the next house. Fake cobwebs drape across the porch, and several grinning pumpkins light my way up the path. Further down the street, giggling children run from house to house. They stop to compare candy collections on the sidewalk. I chuckle to myself, a deep rumble inside my hood. […]
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The Five Year Plan
Indie author Kait Nolan was talking about Five Year Plans over on her blog the other day, and it got me thinking. You see, I’ve never been big on five year plans. I’m the type of person who’d go to an interview, and when asked where I saw myself in five years time, would say “I […]
[Review] Beginnings, Middles and Ends
At first glance, writing a book specifically about beginnings, middles and ends might seem a bit odd. After all, a story contains all three, so surely that’s just a book about, well, books? Well yes, and no. Despite the fact I was familiar with the three act structure from my academic work in film studies, […]
Eighty Nine Launch Day
Today is Launch Day for the latest Literary Mix Tapes anthology, Eighty Nine. My story, Thirty Years in the Bathroom, is online now, but only for the next 24 hours. This is the third LMT anthology I’ve been in, having also had stories appear in the first Deck the Halls collection in 2010, and the […]
Photo Prompt 56
New prompt available! If you want to use the prompt, all I ask is that you include a link to this entry and a credit to me for the photograph, and that you post a link to your story in the comments box below so I can see what you’ve come up with! If you […]
The Guns of Retribution launch!
Thursday night saw the first launch party for The Guns of Retribution! I hired the back room of Bob Trollop’s, a small pub on Newcastle’s Quayside, a room I chose based on the preferences of Grey O’Donnell, the protagonist of Guns. I know that probably sounds extremely weird, but Grey does make his presence felt […]
