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So, today marks the end of the Goodreads Giveaway for Throne Crone & Other Tawdry Tales. The result was pretty good by all accounts, given the relative unpopularity of short stories, and I just want to say congratulations to the winners—I hope you enjoy reading this collection as much as I enjoyed writing it, and I’d be very grateful if you could leave a review and/or rating—and commiserations to those who didn’t get lucky this time. There will be another when my next novella is finished, sometime around 2099  the way things are currently going.

Delighted to announce my second Goodreads Giveaway. Enter now for your chance to win a free copy of Throne Crone & Other Tawdry Tales.

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Giveaway ends July 18, 2025.

See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter Giveaway

I recently posted this on X, and it got a pretty good reception. Just shows the potential of a decent prologue, I reckon, so please, be my guest…

So, today marks the end of my very first Goodreads Giveaway. The result was pretty good by all accounts, with far more entrants than I expected, and I just want to say congratulations to the winners—I hope you enjoy reading Eyes Wide Open as much as I enjoyed writing it—and commiserations to those who didn’t get lucky this time. The good news is that I will be running another giveaway as soon as my next novella comes out. Not sure yet what it’s going to be about, but I’ve half a mind it will be some kind of backwoods horror fest.

Delighted to introduce my first Goodreads Giveaway. Enter now for your chance to win a free copy of Eyes Wide Open.
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Giveaway ends May 21, 2025.

See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter Giveaway

Several weeks ago, at something of a loose end, I sat down and started writing a little snippet of horror. Within an hour it became a prologue for something longer, within a day that something longer became the beginnings of a novella, and within thirteen days the entire first draft was written.

And though I’ve never compiled a bucket list, having a story fall out like that, no outlining, no discussion, no research, would certainly be on there. Twenty-thousand words in under two weeks is unheard of for someone as slow and deliberate as me.

So I’m thrilled to announce the pending arrival of Eyes Wide Open, a little horror tale set in the fictional seaside town of Hartmouth. I’ll sit on the draft for a month, then probably take another two to get the thing edited, proofread, and marketed.

And until then, watch this space…

Live every day as ifit were your last,they say:
a high-stakes game ofregret or abandon,stick or twist.
How about as ifit were yourfirst?

Well, I'm delighted to report that the ebook and paperback versions of my short story collection Throne Crone & Other Tawdry Tales have been approved and are now available on Amazon. Here is a universal store link.
For more information about the book, including trigger warnings, check out my Throne Crone page.

In the run up to releasing my new book, I’m taking the opportunity to revamp this site. Should be done by mid-November latest.

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