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Merging genres - Horror and Science Fiction with Colin F Barnes

This week we have a Christmas treat as writer and publisher Colin F Barnes is at the helm. He tells us about mashing two genres together and why horror and science fiction are good bed-fellows. You wait until I release The Ghost Hunters Return, where I hope to mix chick-lit with a dash of mild erotica and horror. Think Fifty Shades of Grey vs The Exorcist. Yes, I do believe that can work!

What happens when you take two iconic genres and mash them together like a peanut butter and jam sandwich?...

Jingle Bells

This week, L K Jay remembers when Christmas meant you got proper presents and she suddenly starts becoming nice.  Oh yes, it’s that time of year again when we demand to have our Christmas stockings well and truly filled.
I’m sure Christmas has become more rubbish since I was a child in the 70s.  For one thing, Christmas doesn’t start a couple of weeks before December anymore.  I’m sure last time I checked, it was on the 25th December but no, according to the retail outlets of th...

Pass Me the Stress Ball....

This week, I've been blowing my gasket. I've had steam coming out of my ears and I’m ready to kick some backside.

In my last post, I mentioned something about my issues with British Gas. They are on my list, up there with Premier Travel Inn and crap dates. I'm supposed to be keeping my blood pressure down, the kindly nurse told me that I should eat less salt, which is not fun when I have a serious crisp addiction. But I think it has more to do with my inner rage,...

Tax Needn't Be Taxing!

This week I've been trying to talk to the Inland Revenue Service of that great nation, America, as it appears I'm paying their tax.  They are not in my good books. In fact, they are up there with that other great institution, British Gas, which is a blog for another day.
Well that’s what we’re told every year when the adverts from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs service advertise on telly to remind people to get their tax returns in.  Now I'm sure that...

The Next Big Thing - Blog Tag!

This week, I've been blog tagged.  Unfortunately this didn't involve playing kiss chase but I was nominated to answer some questions about my work in progress, which happens to be ‘The Ghost Hunters Return.’  So many thanks to Julia Hughes for nominating me and if you want to follow progress of my new novel, then please like (that’s like, not lick) my Ghost Hunters Club Facebook page. 

What is the working title of your book? 
The working title of my book...

Naughty Sandwiches with Anya Breton

It's the end of the working week (for most anyway) and we have the second of this week's guest posts.  We've had posts from Wales, Scotland and now we're going international - and I don't mean Ireland!  Yes, we have a post from America - the land of greater Kindle choice.  (I really want a Kindle Paperwhite...)  Today, Anya released her new erotic novel 'Alpha Exposed' and for those that don't understand the word 'erotic' - it means there's lots of shagging in it.  Move...

Asylum Seekers

This week, we've got not one, but two guest posts! First of all, regular contributors C L Raven have dropped by to tell us about their new novel 'Soul Asylum' and the time that they tried to break into an abandoned mental asylum. It involves a mini, a ghost tour and a German shepherd.... Later on this week, Anya Breton and her new novel 'Alpha Exposed'.

We’re so excited to be back on L K Jay’s blog. We might stay awhile, drink some Red Bull and watch Great British Ghosts until we remember why...

Dropping the C Bomb

I've been having a debate with myself, not out loud of course, that would be considered strange.  Even in the Fens.  It’s about swearing.  I’m sure the words you sound out when you stub your toe is, “Oh damn and blast!  That flipping sofa!”  Because you are a polite and God fearing person who wouldn’t dream of using naughty words; even when experiencing the excruciating pain of a broken limb, giving birth or even worse, a paper cut.
The other day, I got to a point...

Olympic Cold Turkey

This week, I suffer from a bad case of Olympic withdrawal.  But never fear!  I’ve got a new short story out.
On Sunday, I have to go through the five stages of grief.  First there is denial; then there is anger, fear, depression and then acceptance.  By Monday morning, I think I’ll already be in anger and by the end of the day, fear.  Why am I having to experience the cycle of grief?  Because it will be the end of our Olympic summer.
And the Paralympics is just ext...

The Grass is Always Greener

I've been to both Paris and London in the past couple of weeks and now it's time to sit down and get on with some serious writing.  Well, as serious as The Ghost Hunters Return can be!  More on my adventures next week...
A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting in a bar in Paris with my pal from uni, watching the Olympic opening ceremony that was taking place in London.  Ohh, get me!  A bar in Paris!  I went to university in London, many years ago when it was still possibl...