The Pillow Knife: Advance Review Copies
Dear Readers, In only a few days, The Pillow Knife will be hitting the shelves. I am offering a limited number of Kindle advance review...
A delay and an apology
COVID related bother has forced me to postpone the publication date of The Pillow Knife until August. By way of apology, I've some...
Cleaning the Dark
Toilet humour in the most literal sense, Cleaning the Dark was a fantasy parody featured in “It’s A Living”, a 2018 anthology of fantasy...
It's A Living
Happy Valentine's day. I'm pleased to announce the inclusion of a new comedic short story in the upcoming anthology: 'It's A Living', a...
Hear Ye, Hear Ye.
Good news for audiobook fans: The Censor's Hand is out now on Audible. It's narrated by the brilliant Michael Troughton (Enigma, Poldark,...
Arrivals and departures
This first foray into straight horror ended up far more disturbing than anticipated. A visceral mix of Bret Easton Ellis and Dennis...
A fairy story: Random thoughts on literary fantasy
A couple of weeks ago, Agnes Meszaros posted a lovely blog on how she defines literary fantasy [1]. She approached the question in terms...
Thrice~Crossed News
Much like public transport, I have no news for ages, and then three things happen at all once... ~ The Pillow Knife's cover is done... ~...
Lundenwic, by Sergey Zabelin
Wildly ahead of schedule, Sergey has completed the frontispiece for The Pillow Knife. It offers a glimpse of the Brotherhood of Censors'...
Is Grimdark? Thoughts on a sub-genre, part one.
Genre tags have their uses, otherwise they wouldn’t exist. My suspicion has always been that they are born mainly of commerce, promoted...