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Hi everyone! May is turning out to be a big month for my writing. It sees the release of my novella, The Hand of God, as the first in Nomadic Delirium Press’s range of “Nomadic Novellas,” and there’s more to come! We’ll start with the novella and get to the other pieces of news in a moment. I was so thrilled when J at Nomadic accepted my novella. It had been previously accepted by another…

Yet again, in a spirit of boundless (and unfounded) optimism, here is this year’s Awards Eligibility list. As always, this list is intended to help people nominating short stories for science fiction, horror, and fantasy awards. Ones in previous years certainly haven’t helped my chances, but hope springs eternal. So, here is the list of what I had published in 2025. I have 6 original science…

I guess it’s been a while since I last posted about my writing ups and downs, and here we are in March already. I suddenly realize I have so much to talk about! I don’t know what could be going on in the world that has distracted me so much. Let’s start with the three stories of mine that have been released recently. Two are ones I’ve mentioned before as scheduled to come out soon – and so they…

It’s getting close to that time of the year when we think about how things went over the last twelve months and how things might go in the coming year. You know me, I’m not one to buck a cliché. Now, my previous post listed what I had published during 2025, so a retrospective is already covered. Well, for the most part. That post did omit that I had an interview published. Yes, an interview with…

Yet again, in a spirit of boundless (and unfounded) optimism, here is this year’s Awards Eligibility list. As always, this list is intended to help people nominating short stories for science fiction, horror, and fantasy awards. Ones in previous years certainly haven’t helped my chances, but hope springs eternal. So, here is the list of what I had published in 2025. I have 6 original science…

October was a busy month: not only Halloween, but lots going on at work, and more school performances to go watch than seemed possible (if it wasn’t band, it was choir or drama or something else – sometimes two events on a single night), and then my wife had a minor surgery (don’t worry – she’s fine now, even if she is in a bit of pain)… somehow, amid all that, I still sold two short…

September sees the release of my latest science fiction short story, Fear the Human, in the new collection from Samak Press, Ripples in Space. My story sees first contact between a human exploratory team and peaceful, five-legged aliens. The humans believe they understand what they’re seeing, but their confidence is misplaced. As far as the aliens are concerned, they should never have trusted the…

The wonderful Jeff Georgeson at Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine has kindly included my story Censors of Titan in the magazine’s August issue. You can read the online magazine, and my story, for free here. This short science fiction tale is a mixture of some of my personal immigrant experiences together with a dash of humor. The plot revolves around the difficulties of having freedom of…

Lots of news to share this month! Let’s start with a new book of fan reviews and articles celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Gerry Anderson live-action TV programme, Space: 1999! This book, What The Fans Think – Space: 1999, is the latest in the series from Pencil Tip Publishing, edited by Bob Furnell. It comes with a great cover by John Swogger. I was pleased to contribute two reviews and…

The end of the month sees a couple of updates on the writing front. First, I have another short story out! Following fast on the heels of fantasy tale Jealous Is the Truth in In Another Time Magazine, I am thrilled to say that Morbid is also now available in the online, free-to-read Merganser Magazine Issue 6. Morbid is a flash-length supernatural-speculative-fiction piece, and you can read it…

It feels like forever since I last posted on my blog. That’s probably because things on the writing front have slowed to a crawl. I’m still writing, but publishers don’t seem to be buying. Maybe there’s something happening in the world, or maybe I’ve suddenly lost the ability to string words together. Who knows, eh? Still, this month did bring good news in the form of my short fantasy story,…

I haven’t posted for a while, so I’m a little behind on sharing news about my writing. I guess I’d better catch up now, while I have the opportunity. First up, this week sees the publication of a science fiction “novelette” of mine (that’s book-speak for “longer than a typical short story but shorter than a novella”). This Far and No Further is included as the final story in JayHenge Press’s…

Merry Christmas everybody! Just in time for the festive season, I have another short story out. This time, it’s a short sci-fi/body horror tale called Implantation, and it’s included in the second issue of Fiction Fans’ magazine, Solstitia. You can purchase the magazine here. The excellent cover art is by Daniel Wekellis, by the way. So, what’s my story about? The story follows Nathan, a…

Yet again, in a spirit of boundless optimism, here is this year’s Awards Eligibility list. As always, this list is intended to help people nominating short stories for science fiction, horror, and fantasy awards. Ones in previous years haven’t helped, but hope springs eternal. So, here is the list of what I had published in 2024. I have 1 original novel, 14 original science fiction, horror, and…

Hi everyone! I’m going to start this blog post with a piece of wonderful news. My first ever short story collection is now available, published by Nomadic Delirium Press. We Are Not All Right contains 10 science fiction tales of varying lengths. Nine are reprints from various books and magazines, and one is a brand-new epic story of future warfare and giant tombs. The collection is already doing…

This week sees the long-anticipated release of the next two volumes in the adventures of Air and Nothingness Press’s series, The Librarian. Inter Librarian Loan is a 2-book extravaganza, featuring – shall we say – reprints of author-favorite stories from previous books in the series, but with a twist. The stories are not… quite how you’ve seen them before… They all start the way they did the…