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New Story: The Chrysalis

I have a new story up over at Little Blue Marble. It’s a very short piece, written from the perspective of a young child, so it makes for a quick and easy read, although worth noting the subject matter isn’t necessarily light! There is a double meaning to the title – a bit of a […]Read Post ›

Reading Roundup 2022

Partly inspired by a grim realization about the finite number of books I’ve got left to read given an average life expectancy – it’s been a good year for reading for me, both in terms of quantity and quality. The Stand by Stephen King Started the year by finishing off a book that had taken […]Read Post ›

The Long Shot

I made some interactive fiction! Check it out here. It’s less Adventure Call and more of a financial management game embedded in a couple of sci-fi concepts. Maximum play through length comes in less than 4,000 words so I guess average playing time would be 15-20 minutes. I made it using Choice Script, which was […]Read Post ›

Book Review: Queen of Clouds by Neil Williamson

This book is nothing at all like Kiki’s Delivery Service, but for a novel unlike anything I’ve experienced before, it’s as good a jumping off point as any. A naïve villager in a big city. A quasi love interest. A lushly realized world. Extreme weather. Talking cats. A tense, airship centric finale. I’m choosing my […]Read Post ›

New Story: Rock Hard Place

I have a new story up at Daily Science Fiction! It’s my third publication there, and the first with a conventional narrative structure. It’s a good example of the short stories I like to write these days – very short, psychological sci-fi in the vein of Philip K Dick. I have a few others like […]Read Post ›

Inktober 2021

My writing buddies at GSFWC wrote a prompt list for Inktober, to be used as inspiration for drawings, writings or whatever creative itch they set a-tingling in one’s skin. I started off in a fairly impulsive, tongue in cheek direction, but things evolved into a bigger narrative (still with tongue firmly in cheek) Drawing’s clearly […]Read Post ›

2020 roundup

Well, obviously 2020 has been a relentless waking nightmare of a year, but on a personal level it’s been a relatively good one. As a ‘key worker’ I’ve had the advantage of a steady income and routine, and the bairn has been a source of beautiful variety in the monotony of life in lockdown. Writing […]Read Post ›

New story: Checksum

Checksum (n): a digit representing the sum of the correct digits in a piece of stored or transmitted digital data, against which later comparisons can be made to detect errors in the data. Merriam-Webster, 2019 I spent a lot of writing energy last year trying to learn how to write stories that would sell. As […]Read Post ›

2017 round up

I’ve not blogged as an author before, so I’ve not done a year-end round-up before. Now here I am, rounding up a year of many things I’ve done this year that I’ve never done before. I’ve been writing seriously (writing with sincerity anyway) for the last 10 years. Its been a largely introverted pursuit. I […]Read Post ›

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