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...

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...

The Motel Whore is on a free run for a few days, ends Sunday, here's a link:...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

So, to begin, I am ill as fuck. It's May and I have a cold. I hate having cold. There's nothing I want more than to just go to bed, but I made a promise that I would write every day, not just for this year but for the foreseeable future, and that this week I would...