Taking flight

21 Mar 2021

The Library of Rejected Beauty is one of those wonderful ideas that only comes along occasionally, but once it does you wonder that nobody thought of it before. Basically, it's…

Wings Over the Battlefield

22 Feb 202124 Feb 2021

Crowhurst, R.; The Angel of Mons, c.1914; National Army Museum; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-angel-of-mons-c-1914-182603 A few days ago my friend and fellow author A L Lester posted a link to a fascinating article…

Early Valentine’s Day pressie

12 Feb 202112 Feb 2021

In spite of lockdown and not being allowed to go anywhere or do anything to celebrate Valentine's Day, I was determined to mark the occasion. So I've dug out an…

New fiction archive

1 Feb 2021

I've been thinking about ways to share some of my fiction online for some time. Not so much the published works - the books, or the stories in anthologies and…

Heat Haze – new free story

3 Aug 2020

Today sees the release of my short story Heat Haze. Those of you with really long memories might remember that it first appeared in Velvet Mafia, which was a wonderful…

Vampires, coffins and… dustbins?

9 Mar 20209 Mar 2020

Just popping in to mention that I've added my vampire flash fiction This Life Sucks to the Free Stuff page on my website. The story, which was originally published by…

Can’t Fool Me

8 Dec 2019

Just what would happen if a cynical special effects expert took on the Greystones ghosts? Could she be the first to win the £1,000 prize on offer for staying overnight…

Something a bit fishy…

26 Aug 201826 Aug 2018

  Dashing in to say that my new 75-word story Things That Go Bump is up at specialist flash fiction website Paragraph Planet today. It's a flippant little piece about…

Being Me review

29 Nov 201716 Dec 2017

There's a smashing new review of the 'Being Me' charity anthology over at Kimmer's Erotic Book Banter. (If you're put off by that word 'erotic', by the way, don't worry…

The Huntsman

14 Nov 201716 Dec 2017

Today I have a brand new 75-word story appearing at Paragraph Planet. The Huntsman is based on those old northern European 'swan maiden' fairy tales by Hans Christian Anderson and…