3rd January, 2008

Ladies and Gentlemen I trust you had a wonderful holiday season, happy Christmas, merry New Year or whatever passes for December in your neck of the woods and as a post-new year present I have added a new podcast.

It is, of course 'The Night Before The Christmas Before I Was Married' which will either make you think Thank God my Christmas wasn't as bad as that or alternatively Thank God someone out there had as bad a Christmas as I did.

Subscribe.

Enjoy.

Welcome to 2008.

20th December, 2007

Most people I think are heading full tilt towards Christmas holiday time with thoughts turning to goodwill to all men and... err... presents. It has become something of a semi-tradition for me to post a short Christmas story at this corresponding time of year and this year is to be no exception so without further ado I present:

The Night Before The Christmas Before I Was Married

As anyone worth their salt knows, becoming accidentally engaged to your ex can be problematic. Especially if your fiancee is coming home for Christmas and this is a tale of such an event.

Warning - contains extreme Santa-punching.

Merry Christmas!

11th December, 2007

Some sad news, today I heard that Chrissie Glazebrook died at the end of last week. Chrissie was a tutor of mine when I attended the Creative Writing Masters Degree at Northumbria University and was a great author, having written two black comedy novels 'The Madolescents' and 'Blue Spark Sisters' before - as she put it - the evil demon cancer sank its teeth into her.

Chrissie was a wonderfully random person with a wide-eyed fascination for the insanity of the world at large and a great ability to find humour in it. Even after she was diagnosed she started a blog entitled 'Shuffling Off' which was as funny and candid as she always was.

Go there if you like...

Or read the obituary on The Guardian website.

11th December, 2007

Skive Magazine - the short story quarterly have published my short short story 'Perfect Gluttony' in their December edition.

It is available to download as a PDF and also to buy in book-form from the Skive Magazine website. 

So what are you waiting for? 

29th November, 2007

Once again I am happy to announce that another story of mine has been accepted for publication. This time it's the turn of 'Like They Used to Do In The Movies' - a tumultuous tale of smoking meerkats and love in a zoo (not mucky love though - people love...). It is being published online by Monkeybicycle, an excellent site which you should check out even before my story appears.

I also thought it might be worth reminding everyone that 'So What Exactly is Flash Fiction?' is a brief explanation of short stories, flash fiction and the like (as the title suggests). It has been up for a few weeks and is definitely worth a look.