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Read Cutting Teeth in Schlock! Webzine

 

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I am really stoked to have made it into the front cover of Schlock! Webzine!! (Exclamation marks 2 & 3 my own.)

This week only (Sun 16 – Sat 22 Sep) you can read my short story Cutting Teeth for free on the Schlock! website here.

This one’s an out-there urban fantasy piece involving stolen gold, hippy criminals, a man being eaten by a snake that comes up out the toilet, and a pair of new gold teeth that have itchy predictions about the futur...

Typehouse Literary Magazine

 

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Excited to announce a short story of mine has been sold to Typehouse Literary Magazine, and will appear in print in the magazine’s forthcoming September issue.

Set in 1957 in Budapest under Soviet rule, ‘Pamphleteers’ tells the tale of a once-lauded writer who has become part of a conspiracy to attack the ideology of the regime. (Teaser below.)

Love, spies, and deep-fried lángos – sound like your thing? Look out for this month’s issue of Typehouse.

Typehouse Literary Magazine is based in P...

Schlock! Webzine

 

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I’m really excited to have a short story included in the next issue of Schlock! Webzine.

Cutting Gold Teeth – an urban fantasy tale about a bank heist that goes wrong, kicking off a surreal trip through some unsavoury parts of San Francisco –  will be published on 16th September and available to read for free on the Schlock! website.

As well as a great collection of pulp sci-fi and fantasy stories, Schlock! offers book reviews, comic strips, and artwork.

Check it out here, and read a tease...

Ramen Recipes and Japanese Fiction

[image error]Since I visited Japan three years ago, I’ve been obsessed with ramen – the famous soupy noodle dish found everywhere in the country with many regional variations.

Ramen shops are ubiquitous in Japan’s cities – the little restaurants are crowded underground in railway stations and shopping malls. You make your selection from the machine outside – pork, veggie, spicy, etc. – put on your bib, then slurp away as fast as you can before getting on your way.

Historically, ramen became popular in the...

New Gothic Anthology by FunDead

I’ve been sitting on this news for a while, so it’s with much excitement that I can say I have a short story appearing in a new Gothic horror anthology by FunDead Publications!

FunDead is an amazing indie horror publisher based in the Witch City – Salem, Massachusetts. Back in December 2016 it released a Christmas horror book – ‘O Horrid Night’ – I had the pleasure of appearing in, with a story called ‘The Sixpence in the Pudding’ (republished in Fresh Blood Orange last year).

Now, coming in...

New Hardboiled anthology – the return of Dead Guns Press

A couple of years ago, my short story Queen of Junkyard Dogs appeared in an anthology called Hardboiled: Dames & Sin by Dead Guns Press. (I have since self-published this one in my own latest collection, Fresh Blood Orange.)

Shortly after, DGP went on hiatus, its future uncertain.

I’m pleased to say in 2018 DGP has returned, bigger and better, and is putting together a new Hardboiled anthology.

I’m even more pleased to say a short story of mine – Sherry Sherry (teaser below) – has been accept...

Holiday Reading in Rome and Sorrento

 

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Buongiorno!

 

Last week I came home from my summer holidays in Italy, and I thought I’d shared a few thoughts about the books I read while I was sunbathing in Sorrento – plus share some of my snaps, which are mostly of random animals I saw, and the occasional UNESCO World Heritage landmark.

The first four days were spent in Rome, eating thin pizza, classic pastas covered – and I mean covered – in parmesan, and suppli (rice baws). Although most of my time was spent walking and ga...

Summer Book Giveaway Day Five

Last call at the bar! This is it, the end as we know it. Or rather, the end of my free book giveaway.

You have tonight and tonight only to get your free downloads of all my self-published stories, after that, you may have to pay a whopping 99p for them, or even as much as £2.19 for my newest collection of short stories.

In the past week of blogging I’ve said my piece about each my four books, so as I’ve run out I thought today I would simply thank everyone who has picked up a copy this week,...

Summer Book Giveaway Day Four

Ah Thursday, home of the Throwback Thursday. That’s kind of what this whole week has been like on here. (If you’ve been reading, thank you very much! Feel free to skip to the second paragraph. If not, read on…) The Kindle editions of my books are all free this week, ending tomorrow, and for each one I’m writing an accompanying blog post.

Today: ‘Something was Stirring’, my collection of Christmas horror stories.

Okay, this one is out of season, and so, rightly, not as many people have been ta...

Summer Book Giveaway Day Three

The usual opening credits:

I’m giving away my Kindle books for free this week for a summer promo, yak, yak, you’ve got until Friday 1st June to get your free downloads, and so on, I’ll be writing a piece about each book on the blog, etc.

Today, Day Three, it’s the turn of ‘Beaten to a Pulp 2: Fresh Blood Orange’.

This is a continuation of my first book, a collection of genre short stories in the pulp paperback tradition. With the second in the series I tried to diversify my cast of characters...