Speeding

It’s here! Published today:

It’s a very strange collection of stories about leaving, arriving, and the bit in the middle. The photo above shows it pulling up on my bookshelf. It’s been a journey.

A huge thank you to Ian Whates and Donna Scott for publishing it and getting it into aerodynamic shape. A wave to all the other Polestars; what a brilliant collection of work. Check out the NewCon Press website to see the authors involved.

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Drive or be Driven

It was a path from the place of stories, travelling nowhere and everywhere, as stories do. In one of my childhood night-time travels I found the sudden smoothness of it underfoot, and the trees shrank back, and I had the sense of being open, aware of their approach.

It wasn’t a sound. It was the smell – on the breeze – the smell of the turning of pages of old books. Age, and crumbling pages, from which the monsters had slipped free.

“There are no misfires here; readers will think they’ve hit the standout story of the collection, only to turn the page and find another contender. It’s a marvel.” – Publishers Weekly

“This latest collection stirs echoes of Franz Kafka, Angela Carter, Ursula LeGuin. I don’t know any higher praise that that.” M.R. Carey