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Flash news (sorry)
I'm delighted to have a story, Living With Cancer in the April edition of Eclectic Flash. Delighted on two fronts: firstly, because it's a beautifully produced magazine, available either as a PDF or print edition, which has evidently been the product of much care, effort, and no little flair by people who want to make … Continue reading Flash news (sorry)
Saints alive and kicking in Dundee
A story of mine, The Mute Saint, is included in the fifth annual New Writing Dundee anthology, to be published next month. I posted this on Facebook and The Write Idea forum a few weeks ago, but wanted to hold off here until the link was up (and set up a gratuitous second plug into … Continue reading Saints alive and kicking in Dundee
Bad apples
All writers know that deflating feeling when reality turns out to be more warped and twisted than anything their imaginations can cook up. Yesterday I wrote a detailed entry about the violation of the word experience. Then this morning I went shopping in Marks & Spencer and found this on a pack of shrink-wrapped apples: … Continue reading Bad apples
The Willesden Herald
The shortlist for the Willesden Herald's short story competition is up and I'm not on it. Not a surprise, really, when the likes of Toby Litt are among the competition. The Willesden, you may remember, was at the centre of that minor ruckus a few years back when Zadie Smith withheld the top prize, complaining … Continue reading The Willesden Herald
First things first
The Little Blog of Words I Hate has been launched for real, and I make no apologies for the first entry. Nor for its lateness - you should have reckoned with the double New Year Holiday in Scotland. Take a look, all the same. Next week's will go up on Monday morning, I promise.
The Rhinoceros and His Thoughts
Once More Around the Loganberry Bush is one of my more leftfield offerings which breaks a string of Rules of Fiction Writing. Does it get away with it? Just a handful of pounds will yield you the answer...
It’s about time…
Finally I have got this website thingy started... this, just to make clear, is my fiction website. Everything posted here is wholly, or at least mostly, or at any rate essentially made up, by me. Any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental (Well, it is for the living ones. The … Continue reading It’s about time…