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April 1, 2013
Forever Famine – A Dystopian Zombie Tale
I’ve just published my first zombie story called “Forever Famine”. It’s a zombie literary tale, wherein the zombies are real, because we as humans have turned upon ourselves because of a fourteen year famine. If you like zombie tales and dystopian stories, I think you’ll like this one. It’s got a fresh take on zombies [...]
March 16, 2013
Ta.X.I. – A New Action Adventure Story Published In The Lineage Of Jason Bourne Meets The A-Team
I’ve published a novella called “Ta.X.I. to Angola” which is an action adventure/thriller. TaXI is a team of the finest ex-military specialists that enter into despotic and war torn regions to try and bring peace by any means necessary. TaXI stands for Tactical eXtreme Insurgency. They’re a group of four men who are deft at [...]
February 21, 2013
My Son and I – A New Short Story Just Published
I’ve just published my latest literary short story titled “My Son and I”. It was inspired by my son. During the summer months we take an almost daily walk around a loop in ourneighbourhoodthat offers great vistas. My son will be off to university soon and on one of these walks I started imagining taking [...]
February 12, 2013
Heartless – A New Lady Marmalade Mystery Now Available
The wizened and erudite Lady Frances Marmalade is back at it with another mystery. Heartless is Lady Marmalade’s third mystery. They are not a series, rather they are standalone mysteries featuring the old biddy Lady Marmalade cut very much from the same cloth as Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. Heartless, deals with a murder upon the [...]
February 5, 2013
Livid Blue – A New Novel of the Triumph of Hope and the Human Spirit
I’ve just published my latest novel, titled Livid Blue. It’s a beast, at over 165k words. I never meant it to take that long to write, but there are reasons for it. The first is that this novel is two person first person narrative if you can understand that. It is written from the perspective [...]
November 9, 2012
Free Short Story – Six Words Only – A Very Quick Read
No voice. Mouth open. Blood trickling. The above short story was inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s classic six word short story: For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
November 5, 2012
All Royalties On Sales Of My Books In November Support Hurricane Sandy Relief
I’ve been really moved by the devastation that Hurricane Sandy meted out to much of the North Eastern United States. I wondered how I could help, and then I saw a news article about musicians coming together for the Hurricane Sandy Coming Together telethon. As an artist, it dawned on me that I could help [...]
November 1, 2012
My Brother the Shark – A Flash Fiction Short Story
I recently released a new short story titled “My Brother the Shark”. This short story was inspired by the most excellent Chuck Wendig. He had a competition a while back where he asked his visitors to write a piece of flash fiction, 1,000 words long based on any one of the following three sentences. The [...]
December 12, 2011
100 Best Books – My Quest To Read The Top 100 Novels Of All Time Or The Classic Books Everyone Should Read
As an early Christmas gift from my parents I received the Kobo. It is an ereader much like the Kindle and comes from the now defunct Barnes & Noble or if you are in Canada then it is still available at Chapters. The version I got is the basic model without a touch screen. So [...]
November 9, 2011
Fellow Writers – Please Stop Allowing Book Review Sites to Rape you Blind
This might be a bit of a controversial post but I it's important to write about this topic. I've written before about writer's selling themselves too cheaply to try and drum up sales and I suppose that to an extent it does work. However, what that encourages is readers who devalue the work that writers [...]
