I just received my complimentary copy of the “Music For Another World” anthology in the post the other day, as one of the contributing authors. It is beautifully produced. Mark Harding, the founder of the small press Mutation Press, has done a wonderful job and it proves what can be done outside the large publishing [...]
Hello dear readers – hope you are enjoying the fading embers of a lovely weekend! I have some news of publications coming out and thought I might share. Next week, my story “Stay Special” should feature in Nature magazine, in their science fiction Futures section. To those who are coming here from Nature – I [...]
Gosh, I am tired. I have not moved from the couch for the last hour except to bring back a cup of tea and half-listen to Gok Wan telling people how good they look naked. After a surge of energy the wave inevitably crashes back on the beach. See, even my metaphors are as tired [...]
Just reading this book today. Got it on recommendation, plus was intrigued after the author’s comments on an earlier entry. I have to say it’s a real find. Marjorie Quarton delivers a brief but illuminating guide about starting to write in a real-time environment and all the fundamentals you need to deliver good prose. Marjorie, [...]
Main page here. I’m glad. I had writing withdrawal symptoms. David Rice is the judge, there is a reasonable entry fee (payable by cheque). Important note: the word limit appears to be 600. That is very tonsured flash fiction right there. But the first prize is €500 – not bad for 600 words!
Haven’t been posting for a while. Social and professional obligations are mostly why, with the addition of considerable amounts of writing (well I didn’t call this blog “The Joy of Golf”, did I?) Funny, sometimes the more engaged I am the less I feel like talking about engagement. One of those paradoxes of life, I [...]
over at her blog, The Creative Identity, discussing the entries for her recent competition. Her wrath is truly awe-inspiring, but do pay attention because as she says, “I won’t bin your story for this, but agents and publishers WILL”. The bit about the printer had me in stitches. So, don’t do any of this stuff [...]
Dear friends and readers, it has been a while. A while which I have spent moving house, continuing with my job and even doing some writing to the background chant of the vuvuzelas (I believe their note is B flat) and the white-haired football experts. Now I am established in a lovely house with wide [...]
Passing stranger or long-time follower, whichever you be – pause in your journey, make a little stay here, sit down and tell me your joys. Lurkers, back-button-hitters, accidental surfers, from Ireland and England, Denmark and Bangladesh, California and Arabia. I see such fascinating little sepia-toned vignettes on my stat-counter: “the hopeless joy”, “the difficult joy” [...]
An interesting novel. It’s like the Pompidou centre; he declares the structure up front as he narrates. “And now as one character fades, a new character enters the scene” he announces before dragging in an Englishman who tells a story, fills up a chapter and then vanishes. I’m learning quite a lot about novel-writing just [...]
Click on logo to view more and sign up
Gothic-style darkly comic novella set in small town Ireland - "A Trifle" available for download now in all E-book formats - 50 percent free sample
"Writes men very well...a nightmarish scenario, with a twist I genuinely didn't see coming."
Download now
Web header modified by Adam Buckeridge
Recent Comments