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November 21, 2018
My top Scottish authors, part 2
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Following on from yesterday’s post, here’s the next part of my list of favourite Scottish authors in celebration of Book Week Scotland. (Not in order of preference.)
[image error]Robert Louis Stevenson – Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, name a more iconic duo, I’ll wait. There’s not an English literature student in the land that can’t tell you all about the duality of man and Stevenson’s Strange Case. Borrowed and repurposed many times over, including for a kids’ TV show in the mid-90s called Julia Jekyll and Ha...
November 20, 2018
My top Scottish authors, part 1
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As it’s Book Week Scotland, I thought I’d post some words on my favourite Scottish authors. (In no particular order.)
[image error]James Kelman – Kelman’s novel How Late it Was, How Late earned him a Booker Prize in 1994 (the first and only time the prize has been won by a Scottish author) and earned me my first ever ‘1’ on an English lit essay in 2011. I’ve forgotten a lot of what I wrote about Scots dialect, free indirect third person narration and its political connotations, but I do remember just how...
November 16, 2018
Book Week Scotland ebook giveaway
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To celebrate Book Week Scotland this year I’m giving away free Kindle copies of my Beaten to a Pulp! series of short stories.
From Monday 19th Nov to Friday 23rd Nov you can get both Beaten to a Pulp! and Beaten to a Pulp 2: Fresh Blood Orange on your Kindle for the low, low price of £Nothing.
Run by the Scottish Book Trust, Book Week Scotland is a yearly celebration of all things literary. You can check out all the wonderful events here.
Starting Monday, you can claim your free books on Ama...
October 30, 2018
Happy Hallowe’en!
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To celebrate Hallowe’en this year I made the ebook of my first novel Dead in Autumn, Buried in Winter free until the witching holiday is over.
Dead in Autumn begins on Hallowe’en, when a family of trick-or-treaters find an empty house and decide to take more than just a few sweeties. (Click here for your free copy!)
As well as dressing up and stuffing your face with chocolate and fruit filled with razor blades, Hallowe’en is about scaring yourself silly, and the best way to do so is by indul...
October 23, 2018
Hallowe’en eBook Giveaway!
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To celebrate Michael Myers’s yearly return to cause havoc – a festival called Hallowe’en – I’ll be giving away ebook copies of my novel Dead in Autumn, Buried in Winter for free!
Beginning on 25th October, you’ll have five days to grab yourself a freebie, with the deal closing on Hallowe’en itself.
The story of Dead in Autumn begins on Hallowe’en night when a family of Trick or Treaters break in to an empty house.
Click here to get your free copy (starting 25/10/18).
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October 18, 2018
Read Pamphleteers in Typehouse Literary Magazine
You can now read my short story Pamphleteers in the new issue of Typehouse Literary Magazine!
Budapest, 1957. Once-famous writer Jozsef Novak is part of a conspiracy to publish subversive pamphlets. However, his new romance with student Lazlow is threatening his resolve and the secret police are closing in. For fans of spies, romance, and deep-fried langos.
I’m really psyched and honoured to be included in this issue of Typehouse along wi...
October 17, 2018
Read Hello! Housekeeping! in The Dark City Mystery Magazine
[image error]The Dark City Crime & Mystery Magazine, Volume 4 Issue 1, October 2018
You can now read my new short story Hello! Housekeeping! in The Dark City Crime & Mystery Magazine!
College Man is a college drop out, cleaning rooms in a city hotel for spare change. It’s not too bad a job – he gets to work alone and management are all right. His coasting comes to an end when he opens up a room one day to find a dead body and a bag of drugs. A big bag of drugs… (Read more.)
As I scrubbed the toilet I t...
October 4, 2018
Read ‘There’s a Joab Oan’ in the Glasgow Review of Books
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You can now read my short story ‘There’s a Joab Oan‘ over on the Glasgow Review of Books website!
Deek can see ghosts. Deek lives in a house haunted by its former occupier, Stan. Deek can’t be fucked doing the housework, or doing his job – helping Stan hunt other ghosts for cash – or doing anything really. He just wants to watch telly in peace. Fat chance.
“Christ, forgive me fir thinkin a fuckin ghost might huv a bit ae insight intae the eftirlife. Patrick fuckin Swayze oer here.”
It’s...
October 1, 2018
The Dark City
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I’m on a bit of a spree at the moment, having a run of good luck.
My short story ‘Hello! Housekeeping!’ has been accepted by The Dark City Crime & Mystery Magazine and will be published in its October issue!
A hotel cleaner finds a dead body in the bathroom along with a bag full of drugs. What to do, what to do?
(Teaser below)
Aside from the actual crime elements, this story is close to home for me. I was working as a housekeeper in a hostel when I wrote it, and you’ll find it contains a l...
September 24, 2018
The Glasgow Review of Books
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When it rains it pours. I’m thrilled to say I’ve had a short story accepted by the awesome Glasgow Review of Books!
Due to be published on 3rd October, ‘There’s a Joab Oan’ is like The Sixth Sense only set in Glasgow, and Haley Joel Osment is replaced by a middle-aged rip-off merchant called Deek who can’t be arsed with all the ghosts in his life, and Bruce Willis by a tradesman who had a wee accident. Oh, and they hate each other. But they live together. And attempt to solve ghostly cri...
