Progress on the WIP: #SciFi in the Making.
An offer and a request in one: Many of you have followed the progress of War Over Dust over the months it’s been under construction. I’m…
A Night Shift, by Joshua Scribner: #BookReview.
This short piece of dark fantasy puts a different spin on a popular theme, and carries it through with some dark humour. It’s a compact story,…
The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe: #BookReview.
It’s dangerous to review a much-loved and respected classic; even more so for an author. So I face this review with some trepidation. The story is,…
Progress on the WIP: #SciFi in the Making.
Blood Red Dust is on the shelves. War Over Dust has just appeared as a Kindle, available from your local Amazon. The launch for that…
Story in Literary Fiction, by William H. Coles: #BookReview.
Subtitled ‘A Manual for Writers’, this is a scholarly work that attempts to analyse what makes a story ‘literary’ rather than ‘genre’ and advises on how…
The Devil in the Belfry, by Edgar Allan Poe: #BookReview.
Until I read this short, I hadn’t realised how good Poe was at comic writing. This is a tongue-in-cheek dig at the horror genre that had…
The Solitude of Prime Numbers, by Paolo Giordano. #BookReview.
Translated from the original Italian, this melancholy novel captures the nuance and subtlety that can so strongly influence a young mind. The wrong thing said, the…
