I’ve long been a fan of Carrie Clevenger’s Xan Marcelles, and in this novella, the bassist vampire is marched out of Pale Rider, in Pinecliffe, Colorado, and into a hellish house of mysteries. He’s not the only one – Ashton Kennedy, written by Nerine Dorman, is a being known as an Inkarna (essentially a body […]
Books
Short Stack Anthology Out NOW!
I’m pleased to announce that I have a short story in a brand new anthology! I submitted One Woman Cure as part of a joint competition between For Books Sake and Pulp Press last year (many thanks to Adam Byatt, Maria Kelly and Michael Shean for their beta reading input) and the anthology, named Short […]
New Facebook page
As of this morning, my pulp Western, The Guns of Retribution has its own Facebook page! You can ‘like’ it here, and I’ll be using the page to try and promote the book a bit more while I’m working on the sequel. The sequel is coming along nicely, but I’ll be writing a post tomorrow […]
[Book Review] The Little Stranger
I picked up The Little Stranger by chance, since it was only £2 in HMV. The fact it’s a ghost story naturally caught my eye, and the fact it’s set in a crumbling old house in the 1940s was a bonus. Written by Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger was published in 2009, and shortlisted for […]
Friday Flash – A Different New Year’s Eve
My New Year themed Friday Flash can be found over at my Fowlis Westerby blog – simply click here to read A Different New Year’s Eve! In the event you’d like to read a more vintage Icy New Year flash, then New Year’s Dance, my story from last year, starring Captain Scarlight and Methuselah, can […]
National Novel Reading Month
John Wiswell has been discussing National Novel Reading Month over on his blog. January is the designated month, with the intention being that participants will finally dust over one of those classic novels they’ve had lurking on their shelves, and delve into literature the way it used to be. I suppose the definition of ‘classic’ […]
