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Reprint news for ‘Long As I Can See the Light’!

Very excited to share the news that my science fiction story ‘Long As I Can See The Light’, originally published in ‘People Are Strange’, has made the cut and will be included in Flame Tree Publishing’s Alien Invasion anthology! These anthologies look gorgeous, and I can’t wait to hold a copy of this in my […]

My 2017 suggested reading list in all its flawed & limited glory

’tis the season to nominate and vote for your favourite speculative fiction published in 2017. I’ve read so much stunning, wonderful, crazy-good fiction this year, and (sadly) there are even more stories I never got around to reading at all. The list below is a suggested reading list based on my own limited reading this […]

My 2017 award eligibility post *toots own horn*

It’s the season of award eligibility posts. Here’s mine. This year, several of my short stories were published in zines I consider “dream markets”, and I present them to you here without further ado. If you think any of my stories are worthy of consideration for an award…well, thank you, from the bottom of my […]

DARK FLASH 2 is now available for pre-order!

After a weekend of formatting, Dark Flash 2 is now available for pre-order from Amazon and Smashwords! All ten of the stories I wrote for The Word Count Podcast this year are included in this collection of flash-fiction, and it will be published on December 4th. (It’s my birthday, so it’s the supreme way to make […]

19 freakishly good short stories I read in October

Another month full of wonderful stories. This month, I was absorbed by a wonderful new issue of LampLight, and at the end of the month, Syntax & Salt snuck in a wonderful issue that I will probably come back to next month as well. Here are 19 of the many excellent stories I read this […]

Read ‘Angel’s Heart’, written for R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast

You can hear me read ‘Angel’s Heart’ on the Halloween episode (#71) of R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast. The prompts for this episode were “October/Halloween”, and this photo of the abandoned Pilgrim State Psychiatric hospital: Listen to episode 71 This was a difficult prompt for me. The photo is very evocative, but it took me a […]

Recapping my weekend at Surrey International Writers’ Conference

This was my second year attending the wonderful Surrey International Writers’ Conference (SIWC) at the Sheraton in Guildford. I love this event because a) it’s so close to home that I can go home every night, and b) because the workshops and the atmosphere are fantastic. Check out SIWC’s website if you want to find […]

A cover-reveal for ‘Dark Flash 2’

Some small-ish self-publication news: later this year (probably in December or thereabouts), I’ll be self-publishing all my 2017 stories for the Word Count Podcast in Dark Flash 2. I did the same with the eight stories I published on the podcast in 2016 (available from Amazon and Smashwords), and I thought I might as well make […]

Listen to my new story ‘Angel’s Heart’ on R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast

The brand new Halloween episode of R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast has just gone live. It’s episode #71, and this month, the theme was Halloween, October, and this photo of the abandoned Pilgrim State Psychiatric hospital: Listen to episode 71 It took me a few tries to come up with a story I liked for this […]

Extended story notes for ‘Hare’s Breath’

‘Hare’s Breath‘, now available in Shimmer, was a difficult story to write. All stories are difficult to write on some level, but this one was hard for me to get a grip on, partly because I couldn’t figure out the point of view I needed to tell it from. Spoiler alert / trigger warning: This […]