t is with great delight that I use this post to publicise the fact that I have another piece of fiction online! You can find it at The Tomlit Quarterly, in issue two. It’s available as a free PDF, which means not only do you get my short piece, Cold, you also get tons of […]
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Silver Blade – A Spot of Promotion
There are an awful lot of online magazines and anthologies out there in the cobwebby recesses of the Internet, and I thought I would take this opportunity to briefly swing my torch and shine its light onto one of my favourites, Silver Blade. Yes, it’s true, I am slightly biased towards them as they’ve published […]
I write, therefore I am…or something.
Receptionists will tell you they are receptionists. Solicitors will tell you they are solicitors. Yet writers will tell you they’re “trying to write”, or they’re “working on being a writer”. They rarely own up to what they actually are. If you write, then you’re a writer. It’s that simple. (For a better explanation of this […]
Why Photography and Writing are natural bedfellows
You hopefully won’t be surprised to learn that as well as writing, I like to indulge my creativity with a spot of photography. I took the photo on the left last night, from a spot outside County Hall (this was before I got moved by security since, for some odd reason, you’re not allowed to […]
Reasons why I write; Why…?
So I’m sitting at my laptop, chatting on MSN and mulling over a couple of story ideas, when I suddenly realise I can’t see properly out of the left lens of my spectacles. I take them off to find that a thumbprint has spontaneously appeared on the glass. It’s not my thumbprint as I’m not […]
Feeling Fear, aka Procrastination
I originally composed this entry while sat in a coffee shop just off Piccadilly Circus one rainy Monday evening. Yes, I wrote it with a purple fineliner, by hand, in a ringbound shorthand notebook. What can I say, it satisfies my inner Luddite. The purple ink was for my inner drag queen. Anyway, I follow […]
