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If you’re at a loose end this coming Sunday November 23rd 2025, then you can always log on to your choice of social media and listen to a bunch of authors (including me!) read from our Darkness Most Fowl stories and have a chat.

This is the ‘Euro author’ time zone session, so it begins at 6pm GMT/ 1pm EDT.

I’ll be on first, so get there early if you’d like to hear me read from ‘Little Gibbet’! Our awesome editor Elaine Pascale will be hosting. Line-up is – me, Zac, Leen, Selah, Kristy and Rob, f...

I’m a bit late, but still want to wish everyone reading this a happy Halloween! 

I was honoured to have a little guest article published on the almighty Ginger Nuts of Horror website on Halloween, discussing why The Lost Boys is my enduring favourite Halloween film, and why it’s still so relevant today.

Halloween also saw the official release of Darkness Most Fowl, a new anthology of dark, bird-themed stories edited by Elaine Pascale and conceived by Kristi Peter...

Just in time for Halloween season, two new anthologies are out!

Mmeory, the upcoming anthology from Air and Nothingness Press features my story ‘A Moment on the Lips.’

This is a limited edition release of only 250 numbered copies, so if you’d like one, don’t sleep on it!

Mmeory is “An anthology of memory manipulation stories: magic spells, cyborg memory edits, very unreliable narrators, time travel gone horribly wrong. (AaNP)” and my little folk horror story o...

I’m going through one of those (loooong) patches where I’m struggling to read, but it’s not through lack of wanting to, so short stories are a great way to read new authors when I’m low on time.

I’ve also been meaning to read some Matt Neil Hill for a while, and he’s got a few stories online that you can read for free, so I’ve started with those and written up a little review for them.

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Mmeory, the upcoming anthology from Air and Nothingness Press featuring my story ‘A Moment on the Lips’ is now available to pre-order on their website.

This is a limited edition release of only 250 numbered copies, so if you’d like one, don’t sleep on it!

Mmeory is “An anthology of memory manipulation stories: magic spells, cyborg memory edits, very unreliable narrators, time travel gone horribly wrong. (AaNP)” and my little folk horror story of haunted snow.

It should be o...

Some presses just produce the most beautiful books. One of these, for me, is Air and Nothingness Press. I’ve been submitting work to them for years in the hope of one day becoming part of one of their wonderful limited edition anthologies, and I am delighted to say that today is the day!

I’m especially pleased because I’ve been accepted into their upcoming anthology ‘Mmeory’ with one of my personal favourite stories I’ve ever written. Yeah, I know I say this about a lot of my stories (c’mon, it’...

Ever feel like you’re working and working and never getting anything actually finished?

Well, I’m feeling like that a lot lately, so it’s really great that I can now finally share a brand new zine I’ve been working on since January!

My last tiny story zine before this was Hard Lines in 2019, so I’m delighted to introduce Forget Me Not. This is another handmade 16-page zine featuring 10 fully-illustrated tiny stories (not six word ones this time, these are full tiny tales) focusing around the fol...

I hope everyone is well and enjoying the sunshine!

A few bits of news from me.

Firstly, my short story Warning: Cats Eyes Removed that features in the June 2025 issue of ‘Worlds of Possibility’ is now available on Julia Rios’s website – you can now listen and read FREE here, read an interview with me here, and you can even buy your own cats eye talisman handmade by me here on my Kofi.

If magic talismans are your thing, then also now available on my Kofi are the very last four garnet Mars Talisma...

Yep, nobody wants to have to do this, but the cost of living is getting us all now.

Lulu have just announced another price rise in their printing costs, so they are, quite understandably, increasing their prices by 5%. When this has happened in the past, I’ve just swallowed the increase and accepted a lower profit margin, but I can’t do that indefinitely, so sadly this time I’m going to let Lulu adjust the sales price of my print books in order to keep my current profit margin.

So, from August 1...

If you answered ‘yes’ then you’re in luck, because the latest issue of Worlds of Possibility is out now. Julia Rios has compiled another set of lovely, hopeful speculative tales for the June 2025 issue of their beautiful magazine Worlds of Possibility. This issue features my short story ‘Warning: Cats Eyes Removed’, which is a gentle tale of enduring queer friendship set in a post-apocalyptic near-future where rebuilding is already well underway. 

You can purchase the issue via Julia’s site here...