There's just over a week to go until things go bump in the night in Watford with my Watford Fringe Festival performance of Tales in the Key of Terror. It's the perfect way to start your countdown to Halloween... two chilling horror stories brought vividly to life on stage. There will be fun, there will be fear, and the ghosts of the entertainment are just dying to meet you (or they would be if they hadn't already passed on). Tickets for the show are on sale now, but selling fast here.

For a free preview, stop by the Atria Shopping Centre at 12.30 pm this Saturday (23rd September 2023). This preview performance is part of a packed bill of Watford Fringe Festival entertainment starting at 11.00am, all of which I would heartily recommend. If you can't make it on Saturday, there is some footage of my 2023 Isle of Wight show available here.

Tickets are also on sale now for my Faversham Fringe Festival slot, which is at 11.30am on 21st October 2023 in the atmospheric surroundings of the Guildhall. The tickets for this one are available here. For information about all the great acts appearing at the Faversham festival, check out their stall, which will be outside the Alexander Centre on the 23rd September 2023, and outside Faversham Visitor Information Centre on 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th October 2023.

In other news, I'm excited to announce that I have scored an honourable mention in the third quarter of the 2023 Writers and Illustrators of the Future contest with my steampunk story Skysteamer to Athens 😊. Packed full of top hats, corsets and fantastical technology, the story is about a young woman who has a supernatural encounter while travelling to Athens on a luxury steam powered airship and is set in a fictionalised version of Victorian Europe. It lends itself well to performed readings and plans are afoot to take it on the road in 2024. Watch this space for updates. For the full Writers and Illustrators of the Future third quarter results, click here.