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November 2, 2016
October recap – poetry & stories in the wild, a review, a new anthology, a conference
October was another fun and busy month for me. Here’s what happened: I spent a wonderful weekend at The Surrey International Writer’s Festival. Read my conference recap here. It really was an amazing event, and I hope to be able to attend next year too. I learned a whole lot about writing from amazing people […]
October 31, 2016
Read ‘The Demon’ – a story written for R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast
You can hear me read this story on episode #61 of R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast. The story prompt this time was quite simply to write something dark and twisted for the special Halloween edition of the podcast. This tale is pretty dark. It also starts off with a spiked drink and a date-rape scenario […]
October 30, 2016
11 wondrous speculative fiction short stories
Another month gone by, another leap into the wealth of excellent speculative short fiction available online. There are so many wonderful websites and zines that publish short fiction these days: support the ones you like. Subscribe, use Patreon, buy single issues… it makes a difference to the sites and zines, and it makes a difference for […]
October 28, 2016
Hear my new story ‘ The Demon’ and other twisted tales on the Word Count Podcast!
The Halloween edition of R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast is now live! My contribution this time is a story called ‘The Demon’, written to fit in with the dark and twisted theme for this particular episode. Note: my story starts off with a spiked drink and a possible date-rape scenario, but IS a twisted tale, […]
October 25, 2016
Book review – VIGIL, by Angela Slatter
The official blurb: Verity Fassbinder has her feet in two worlds. The daughter of one human and one Weyrd parent, she has very little power herself, but does claim unusual strength – and the ability to walk between us and the other – as a couple of her talents. As such a rarity, she […]
October 24, 2016
Recapping a great weekend at the Surrey International Writers’ Conference
I have had some busy and wonderful days since Thursday night last week, spending most of my time immersed in the world of writing at the Surrey International Writers’ Conference. It was my first time attending, and I loved it: the event was very well organized, it was easy for me to get to, the food was good, […]
October 17, 2016
Read my poem ‘Stories Beneath the Skylight’ in The Lorelei Signal
The new issue of The Lorelei Signal is hot off the internet-press, and my poem ‘Stories Beneath The Skylight’ is part of it! It’s been a while since I released some new poetry into the wild, so this is quite exciting for me. It’s accompanied by some beautiful artwork by Lee Ann Barlow! Thanks so […]
October 13, 2016
Read excerpts from my stories in ‘People Are Strange’
Here are two short, teaser excerpts for your reading pleasure, taken from the new anthology ‘People Are Strange’, the latest addition to the Mind’s Eye Series. Each anthology in this series features stories and poems inspired by photographs. When I was asked by fellow author Maria Savva to contribute to this anthology last year, it […]
October 4, 2016
Janis Joplin, Mama Cass & showing some love
It’s the anniversary of Janis Joplin’s death as I write this. I don’t much like to dwell on the stories of how people died: their lives were more important than how those lives ended. So this morning I went looking for a great Janis Joplin tune to listen to. That’s when I stumbled on a […]
September 30, 2016
13 most excellent speculative fiction short stories
This month, like every month, I read a lot of amazing speculative short fiction. This is also the month when I’ve decided to switch from calling the stories I list “fantasy and science fiction”, to calling them “speculative fiction”. Quite simply because I include stories that are horror, magical realism, and, well… whatever other kind of […]
