I was reading an issue of Amazing Spider-Man last night and unexpectedly stumbled across a rather nifty definition of what it means to be a patriot, written by Mr Mark Twain. I quote: In a republic, who is ‘the country‘? Is it the government which is for the moment in Read more…
I’ve added links to a few more recent short stories I’ve written. Most of these are literally 10-minute jobs written as exercises for the creative writing course we’re on at the moment and are tests of style/character/POV etc. Next up is to write the final 1500 word piece for the Read more…
I’ve just put links up on the right to a couple of stories I’ve written as part of the Sci-Fi & Fantasy Creative Writing unit we’ve been doing for the last 8-or-so weeks. They’re pretty short, so take a peek! Please do let me know what you think, feedback is Read more…
After neglecting our little website for many a month, I’ve finally got round to rejiggling it a bit. The first step being to remove just about everything except this blog. Now that I’ve finally detached myself from 90s-style websites, hopefully this should prove much easier to update on a more Read more…
I forgot we had this, and now I remembered I figure I may as well post on it! First things first, I am now officially thirty two years old. How old is that? How grey am I? And how have things been these past thirty two years I know you Read more…
That I’ve been blogging on here? If that is the correct term. I’ve been ruminating on whether to go down to London to get a book signed on the 17th March, as I have the 16th off work anyway, and it would be great to meet some people from the Read more…
I thought I’d update the journal seeing as I am home, sick and bored. I’ve been off work for days now with a bad head cold – Simon’s man flu seems to have affected me more:( and am going stir crazy. Topics of interest lately have been: Slavery, as it Read more…
James Bond, to be exact. Not a man I either like or am interested in except to have an apoplectic fit whenever he is mentioned. But Casino Royale was actually ok. Just the right mix of action, irony, poker and lithe male and female bodies to appeal to a wider Read more…
Now that all the festivities are done, I’ve finally had time to update the website properly. I’ve rejiggled most of the pages so that they can cope with more content. The Artwork section now works via the rather nifty Picasa web albums service – nice and free! With a bit Read more…
Some of you may already be aware that I’m working on a novel (aren’t we all…?), currently going by the title of Evinden. As may be apparent from its meaningless and concocted title, it sits firmly in the fantasy genre, although I should probably point out that there are no Read more…