by Neil | Sep 4, 2019 | Writing
Well, here we are: one week on from the launch of The Scarred God – that’s my first novel. I asked a quick question of my twitter followers on whether they would be interested in me posting about my Indie publishing adventure so far and I was quite surprised at the...
by Neil | Sep 25, 2018 | Fantasy, Fiction, free fiction, Free Online Fiction, Writing
As promised, having raised more than £500 for SANDS in August, the audio version of Dragonstar is embedded below. Dragon Star is the story I wrote in the week after we lost our son, scribbled in a notebook, sat at my mother-in-laws and trying to chain the grief in the...
by Neil | Aug 27, 2018 | flash fiction, Writing
Over on my wife’s corner of the internet she has revealed that her next project is a short comic. The comic is an adaption of a flash fiction piece I wrote a scary amount of time ago now and that I have since adapted into a comic script. The story features a cat...
by Neil | Apr 22, 2017 | Grief, Writing
Someone, I think it was Stephen King, once said their muse was a basement guy. Mine’s different, as it should be, preferring the high, quiet, places. The idea lodged in my head years ago, proving a handy analogue for when, for whatever reason, I have *had* to close or...
by Neil | Sep 18, 2016 | Conventions, Writing
I will be attending FantasyCon By The Sea, in Scarborough, from Friday, 23rd September until Sunday, 25th September. I’ll be reading on Sunday 25th, at 10am (along with Bill Webb) in the cocktail bar of the Grand Hotel – I haven’t decided what to read yet but it’s...
by Neil | Sep 5, 2016 | Art, poetry, Writing
Never-day Echo By Neil Beynon Words hide in the witching hour. Rainbows sleep, Stars gone far away. Footsteps echo on empty streets To locked gates of a never-day. Trains roar against the dawn As the jukebox plays 3AM. The glass is full of yellow-brick road. The bone...
