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August 22, 2019
Hard Lines – zine out now!
[image error] I’ve made another mini zine and it’s called Hard Lines.
It follows on from Matchbook and Flashcard Riot.
Each tiny A7 zine contains 20-odd six word flash stories written by me. Each page is fully illustrated by me. I assemble every one by hand – fold, staple, razor cut, and block print the colour on the covers with ink stamps I’ve custom made for the project.
I love writing stories and I love every project I do, but there’s something particularly satisfying about these zines for me. Getting...
July 26, 2019
Queer Sci-Fi – I won!
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Once a year, Queer Sci Fi runs a flash fiction contest around a one-word theme. In their own words, “We receive hundreds of entries with almost as many possible interpretations, and we choose some of the best for this annual anthology.” And this year, I was the overall winner!
The 2019 contest theme was ‘Migration’ and I am absolutely honoured that my story ‘Mettle’ was selected as the overall contest winner.
The anthology of 120 flash stories is available to buy now, and from what I’ve rea...
July 3, 2019
Rendez-Vous issue one – exciting free fiction
I’m so excited to have a new flash fiction out with Short Édition. It’s part of the first ‘Rendez-Vous’ collection of stories they’ve published, and I’m honoured that my story was the inspiration behind the graphic design for the first collection!
If you’re near to one of their Short Story Dispensers (you can find your nearest one worldwide on their website – and trust me, they are a seriously cool idea) you might get my story ‘Cracks in The Wall’ dispensed to you for free if you push the ‘3...
January 8, 2019
Gingernuts of Horror LGBTQ+ month
To prove how truly rubbish I am at keeping up this blog, this blog post is pretty much just going to link to a couple of blog posts I wrote for another website!
I’m delighted to have an article and an interview with me included as part of Gingernuts of Horror’s LGBTQ+ focus month, which is running for the whole of January 2019 and aims to spotlight LGBTQ+ horror writers, who are so often underrepresented in the genre (as in writing in general).
It’s really great to see such a popular and resp...
October 20, 2016
The Creative Artist -new documentary series
Yesterday I was fortunate enough to take part in the filming of a new documentary series ‘The Creative Artist’. Photographer and director Adam Pestridge of Portrait Films Ltd is producing this six-part mini-series to explore the creative arts in the Flintshire and Cheshire area – from writing, to music, to art and everything in between.
I’d like to thank Adam again for giving me the opportunity to be involved in this fascinating project. I’d never been filmed for an interview before, so the w...
October 4, 2016
Get Gothic for free this October!
Just a quick reminder that as part of the Chester Literature Festival, I’ll be reading a story from My Glass is Runn in the splendid gothic surroundings ofChesterTown Hall on Friday 14 October 2016.
The event is ‘Gothic’ – readings from Chester Writers exploringthe dark recessesof the genre – and it’s from 4pm til 6pm (but as I understand it, I’m first in the running order, if you want to hear me read.)
It’s a free eventbut places are limited so if you’d like to come along then please book yo...
August 15, 2016
Pssst… wanna know the secret password?
Here’s a little Monday pressie for you – if you’re interested in my brand new short story collection ‘My Glass is Runn’ but not quite sure if you want to commit to buying a copy, you can now read my story ‘This is the Life’ for free – but only if you visit the right page and enter the password… OK, I’ll make it easy for you:
Visit ‘This is the Life‘ and enter password ‘Okapi’ to read a story from ‘My Glass is Runn’ that might hopefully make your Monday not seem quite so bad..!
And if you enjo...
August 13, 2016
My Glass is Runn – NOW AVAILABLE!
It’s finally launch day! You can now buyMy Glass is Runn online, exclusively from Lulu, via the links below.
Buy paperback– 5.99 plus postage Buy Epub – 2.99 (Can be read on Kobo, Blackberry, Nook, iBooks, Kindle Fire, and more) Buy PDF – 2.99 (Can be read on most e-readers but best for laptops and tablets)If you’re teetering on the fence as to whether to give My Glass is Runn a go, I’ve already had a lovely review (thank you so much, Lucy!) for the collection from one of my advance reader...
July 21, 2016
My Glass is Runn – table of contents sneak peek!
For anyone who’s interested, this is the table of contents for My Glass is Runn, which will be available to buy online from August 13th:
The Audsley Chimera Hearts of Gold This is the Life The Dust Bunnies To be Heard Play Ball Waifs The Ghost Bride Sphere Music Life Skills Don’t be Afraid of the Lights Twice a Day with Water Maketh the Man The Fourth ApeThese are all previously published stories, but this is the first time they’ll be available together as a single author collection.
June 30, 2016
Things the Sea Brings Us – for FREE!
So, the lovely people over at Firewords Quarterly have asked to use my story Things the Sea Brings Us (which featured in Issue 5 of Firewords) for a free sampler newsletter that they’re putting out. I really can’t recommend this magazine highly enough – the compelling writing and full-colour illustration is a thing of beauty and I’m chuffed to be part of such a wonderful publication. If you’d like to read my story (and others!) for free, all you have to do is subscribe to the Firewords newsle...
