Ziggy

Dear Ziggy, Happy birthday. I’m so sorry we can’t be together today and I can’t quite believe it has been a year since I held you. Sometimes, it feels like it was only a moment ago and if I step through the nearest door I will be back in that little hospital room with...

Defiance

Today I submitted a short story. It probably won’t get accepted, these things generally don’t first time, but that wasn’t really the point. As 2013 draws to a close, it was one of the ways I have of flipping this awful, dreadful, f***ing furnace of a year the bird....

Dusty

As I stare around the detritus in here, I wonder that it’s been allowed to get this bad: Honestly, there’s dust over everything, half moth-eaten flash fiction in the doorway, bad satire clogging up the pipes and the electrics are fluttering like the wiring in my...

Fantasycon

Just a quick note to say that I will be attending Fantasycon, in Brighton, this weekend. I’ll be there from Friday evening until Sunday morning but won’t be doing any panels. If you see me in the bar or out and about, please do say hello. If I seem quiet,...

State of the Writer: Not Perfect

I’m back. There are blog posts that are easy to write and those that feel like you are picking your way slowly, carefully, through a swamp that may or may not contain something you don’t want to meet. This is one of the latter. So: Open Door… I didn’t make the grade....