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True Detective

this song. This song right here. It's been stuck in my head. I had to come in out of the sunshine to listen to it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbd4h1kaFlY Anyway, True Detective season 2. I loved season one, it was my TV highlight of last year and I've since waited...

Radio Silence

I realised that, with it being July now (whuuuuuuuuut??) I made only one blog post during the month of June. That's pretty poor going. I did keep busy, I've written every day so far this year and I finished something up which is (first draft) over 50,000 words, so...

The Dancers

I had a new story published yesterday in issue 50 of Yellow Mama online, the link is below: http://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/yellowmama/id1302.html A while back I was watching BBC Breakfast news and they did a piece on the murder of a male Russian ballet dancer, and...

Comic Books

Since I finished The Incal last week I've gotten back into reading comic books in a big way. I've got quite a big pile of them to read, I've been building them up for a while but been trying to work my way through the to-read pile of novels I've got too (which I...

The Boy

Ahoy! There's a girl I work with always uses that as a greeting, I felt like doing it myself. It sounds particularly jubilant, and I am in an especially jubilant mood - The Boy is available for purchase! Here's the cover art: Once again it was designed by the...

Initiation

I've had a new story published today at Spelk fiction, my second time there: http://spelkfiction.com Check it out, it's a great site, and my story The Dancing Girl is there too. Initiation came to me one morning as I drove to work listening to Raekwon the Chef of the...

Vasili

Just an update to the Child 44 post the other day - Vasili isn't played by Vincent Cassell in the movie, he's played by Joel Kinnaman. Which makes me think Cassell is playing the leader of the militia where Leo has been demoted to in the book, that's where I'm up to....

Child 44

Last week I had to take my partner to her college in Ashington so she could hand in some work or get some work signed or something. It's not the first time I've had to do so, but I don't mind because I take a book with me. I went last week with The Colour of Magic by...

Harry Crews

That's my collection of Harry Crews so far, and I'm very pleased with it. His work is pretty hard to come by, and it ain't cheap. I think he's mostly out of print these days. The Gospel Singer especially I'm pleased with as it took a very long time to find a copy that...