My science fiction novella, The Girl in the City, is now available for pre-order from Amazon (Amazon US, Amazon UK). Here’s the description… With the oppressive Transport Authority controlling every aspect of … Read More
A Couple of Books
I finished a couple of books this week. Both were kindly sent to me by the authors for review prior to their release, and both of them are worth a … Read More
“A sickly kind of orange”
Another of my top three Cure songs – Wrong Number from 1997. Wrong Number is taken from the “Singles” album – Galore. [“A sickly kind of orange” by Philip Harris first appeared on Solitary Mindset on … Read More
Coming Soon – The Girl in the City
My novella, Leah, now has a proper title – The Girl in the City – and a superb Jason Gurley cover. The Girl in the City is a science fiction … Read More
First New Story of the Year
I’m really planning on spending the first three months of this year finishing up stories that already exist but one of my “bucket list” publishers has an open call for … Read More
“Come over here and kiss me”
Back to musical Wednesdays with some shaky-cam footage of the final song from The Cure gig we attended in London last year – Hey You. I was particularly happy at this … Read More
Best…Typo…Ever
I know it’s only January 6th but this may well be the funniest thing I see on the Internet this year. It’s from Reddit and I’ve been laughing about it for … Read More
A Year in Books – 2014
Goodreads claims I read 84 books last year – including 3 of my own. I read 44 in 2013 so that’s pretty good. Lots of short stories in there, which accounts … Read More
Indie Publishing Update – January 2015
I finally decided to give indie publishing a try last year – starting with three short stories. Bottled Lightning (available on Amazon US UK Canada) was officially released on 29th September. Saviour (available … Read More
A Year in Writing – 2014
As is traditional, it’s time for a few end of year posts, and as is traditional (for me), I’ve left them until the beginning of January when the year is actually … Read More