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February 8, 2024
Review: A Stir of Echoes
For me, one of the best haunting novels ever written. It's short, fast, and packs a real punch.
February 7, 2024
A Reading: The Yule Log
A wee ghost story of mine... or is it? You decide.
February 6, 2024
Book Review: Under the Dome
All in all I enjoyed it. It's another King blockbuster, and while not up to the standard of his other big books like The Stand or It, well... what is?
February 5, 2024
A real life horror story...
I'm back...
Late last summer I didn't feel well, took myself to the docs... and later that day found myself in hospital. I had a gall stone, a big, nasty one.
But that's not the subject of this horror story...
While treating me for the stone, they also discovered I had liver cancer... a tumor, a huge tumor, on over half of my liver. I had an op to try to remove the gall stone. That failed. Another op a few days later also failed so they decided the stone would have to stay where it was and I needed a bile duct bypass. I also needed something done about the liver...
Three weeks after being admitted I was sent home with a bile-drain in to wait for a date for the big surgery...
Finally got that arranged and on 16th November went in for surgery.
I was on the table for over ten hours (the surgeon was knackered by the end of it). They cut me open from between my nipples down to above my right hip and got to work. They cut out fifty percent of my liver and bypassed my bile duct. When I came to I had a lot of pain and an enormous scar, but was told I was on the mend. After a week recovering I was sent home.
Ten days later I felt ill again. Back to the docs, and got rushed to ER...the surgical wound had got infected. They drained 3 pints of noxious puss out of my body, pumped me full of antibiotics, left a drain in to keep the puss from building up... and again I started recovering.
Another week later I got home, in time for a quiet Xmas.
It's been slow going since then but I'm now a lot better. Had a chat with the surgeon last week, the puss-drain finally came out, and a CAT Scan showed they I'm all clear... they got all the tumor and my liver is healing nicely.
All of which is a long winded way of saying I haven't been doing any writing for the past six months, but this week I got back in the chair.
The only way is up...
Late last summer I didn't feel well, took myself to the docs... and later that day found myself in hospital. I had a gall stone, a big, nasty one.
But that's not the subject of this horror story...
While treating me for the stone, they also discovered I had liver cancer... a tumor, a huge tumor, on over half of my liver. I had an op to try to remove the gall stone. That failed. Another op a few days later also failed so they decided the stone would have to stay where it was and I needed a bile duct bypass. I also needed something done about the liver...
Three weeks after being admitted I was sent home with a bile-drain in to wait for a date for the big surgery...
Finally got that arranged and on 16th November went in for surgery.
I was on the table for over ten hours (the surgeon was knackered by the end of it). They cut me open from between my nipples down to above my right hip and got to work. They cut out fifty percent of my liver and bypassed my bile duct. When I came to I had a lot of pain and an enormous scar, but was told I was on the mend. After a week recovering I was sent home.
Ten days later I felt ill again. Back to the docs, and got rushed to ER...the surgical wound had got infected. They drained 3 pints of noxious puss out of my body, pumped me full of antibiotics, left a drain in to keep the puss from building up... and again I started recovering.
Another week later I got home, in time for a quiet Xmas.
It's been slow going since then but I'm now a lot better. Had a chat with the surgeon last week, the puss-drain finally came out, and a CAT Scan showed they I'm all clear... they got all the tumor and my liver is healing nicely.
All of which is a long winded way of saying I haven't been doing any writing for the past six months, but this week I got back in the chair.
The only way is up...
A Writer’s Mantra
The single necessary bit of advice that comes out of all my years of writing (30 years plus of it now) is a very simple one.
February 3, 2024
Video review: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Video review: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradburyhttps://www.goodreads.com/videos/2083...
February 2, 2024
New videos on profile
Added some new videos to my author profile
- a wee introduction to me and my writing
- a short story reading of Supply and Demand
- a book review of Willaim Hjortsberg's Falling Angel
- some thoughts on my writing process
- a wee introduction to me and my writing
- a short story reading of Supply and Demand
- a book review of Willaim Hjortsberg's Falling Angel
- some thoughts on my writing process
January 29, 2024
Relaunching Youtube
I've restarted the YouTube channel with a wee introduction to me, some book reviews, and an overhaul of the channel to produce a consistent look and feel.
December 20, 2023
Coming Soon
A Scottish supernatural fiction collection from Weird House Press in hardcover, paperback and ebook
August 7, 2023
SUPPLY AND DEMAND
SUPPLY AND DEMAND - a short story, read by me on my YouTube channel. Feel free to subscribe for more
https://youtu.be/OR6zpkMbQ2U
https://youtu.be/OR6zpkMbQ2U
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