The Scribbling Sea Serpent

Or the thrill of the first draft. I’ve been throwing myself back into WRRW. The poor novel has been languishing on my hard drive for long en...

My short story 'Symbionts' has just gone up at The Absent Willow Review in their February issue. You can read it here . Do pop over...

We drove to the Alps last week to go skiing, and as we drove through the mountains I stared up at their snow clad slopes and dark forests an...

Editing that is, not writing in general But when do you decide to stop tweaking and changing things as sit back and say to yourself ‘enough’...

One of my regular blog readers e-mailed me a few days ago to point out that he could name a number of short stories that actually made the ‘...

I have both written a read a fair number of short stories in my time, and I thought it might be timely – (what with the ongoing flash fictio...

There’s a bit of an easterly swell coming in today. Fresh and ever so cold. A good day for walking along the beach and trying to untangle al...