The Scribbling Sea Serpent

Well last night was the Writers Circle AGM and I’ve been duly voted in as Chairman for another year. It’s certainly a role I enjoy. The grou...

My eagerly awaited contributer's copy of Ruins Metropolis has finally arrived, and it is a thing of beauty. I've only been able to r...

Today, while I was walking around Winfrith Heath at lunchtime, I spotted an adder - one of those young brick-red ones. I’ve never seen one t...

It's out! Just had an e-mail from the editor to let me know that Ruins Metropolis is now up at Amazon.com and should be available from ...

Most of the short fiction markets I submit to are pretty good with their response times, but sometimes they seem to take an age. At present ...

So much emphasis is put on getting the opening right, but a good ending is also important. Of course the point at which a short story ends i...

Plotting is something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently. It’s one of the hardest things to get right, and the hardest thing to get goo...