Category: hurrah
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Ogres in the Mist
All hail the wonderful Canadians and especially those involved with On Spec, the Alberta based spec fic magazine for they have published a story of mine! Behold the glorious cover. Details of how to acquire this, should you wish to, can be found on their site at: https://onspec.ca/2024/03/20/on-spec-127-is-released-into-the-wild/ My tale is one of a wee,…
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Life in the big House
I’ve got a new story out, yay! This one is in an anthology, Titanic Terastructures that can be found here, that is a set of stories all in some way related to ginormous SF thingumies of a Ringworld stylee. I am very much looking forward to reading this and seeing what huge and wondrous…
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Recurring dreams and dusty attics
Proving that story publications are like busses, I’ve another new one for your perusal. This time it is a story of old childhood memories and how market forces affects them. Or something. Anywho, you can find it in Kzine issue 30 and it is called Gentrification and the Dream House. This one had an odd gestation in…
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Low risk reading for the win!
I have a new story coming out soon in a wee Canadian anthology called A Quiet Afternoon 2 and they’ve just opened their site for pre-orders. You can find it here The anthology is a collection of relaxed stories ideal for a restful afternoon, something we could all do with these days. Apparently they had volume…
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Sacrificial Gasoline
It’s a new story! I’m very pleased to report that my story, Sacrificial Gasoline, has appeared in this wonderful publication, New Maps. You can find them here New Maps showcases ‘de-industrial’ fiction and if you want more information on what that is, they have a great editorial all about it in the issue. Basically it’s…
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Delinquent, intergalactic starfish
A new story for a new decade I’ve a new story out but a slight delay on my blogging about this as, in a fit of anger over having my European citizenship removed at the end of this month, I went to Rome at the weekend instead. Where my wife was photographed crocheting inside the…
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2017: The Year of the Step Up
Hello all and Happy Holidays. Firstly, I have a new story out. Yay! Normally at this time of year I do a review of the year and post up an old story for you. But today I happen to have a new story out from the wonderful people at Fireside Fiction. It’s called Rab the…
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Writing on the shoulders of giants
I’ve sold a story! Very pleased to be able to say that Fireside Fiction have bought a story from me called Rab the giant versus the witch of the waterfall. They have an announcement here It’s a modern fairy tale featuring giants and witches (obvs) and is silly. I hope you like it when they…
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It’s always colder in your memory
Hello dear people. In this time of strife and upheaval let me ignore all that for a moment and tell you of an incident that happened to me when I was but a wee child and growing up in Ayrshire, the land of Burns, cows and decayed towns. But not here, oh no. Rather, why…
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Thirty Years of Glaswegian Story Building
UPDATE: Now available from here; Lulu shop page and Amazon print edition and Kindle edition Did you know that the Glasgow Science Fiction Writers Circle was started thirty years ago? Well now you do. Off the back of a writing course run by Duncan Lunan a small group began to meet regularly to critique each other’s work and encourage one…