Category: hurrah
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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…
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Two posts in a year? By jingo!
No, I’m as surprised as you that I have something to say more than once in a year. Anyhoo, first things first. Come the 28th of May, point your Kindles and other electronic reading doohickeys at Kzine where you will find me getting a story published in their Issue 15. I am deeply pleased that…
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The Past Does Not Watch Over Us
It is with great delight that I can point to my latest published short story, now available in e-book format in The Speculative Book It’s a story on education, black holes and fighting your parents. It also mentions pakora and features REAL SCIENCE. (I know, I must be mad) as I originally wrote it to…
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Agnes, a Fairy
I’ve just spoted that Hysterical Realms, the latest Alternate Hilarities anthology containing my story, is available for buying on the internets here If you chipped in to the Kickstarter for this then thank you very much but if not and you fancy giving it a look then it is available in both Kindle and the…
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The Eastercon Of Doing Things
It has been a while since I last posted and, with Eastercon fast gambolling towards me I felt I really ought to do an update. Not much to say on the writing front. Much writing is ongoing but no new acceptances. I am building up a nice pile of stories which are either out for…
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Happiness personified
Me with my copies of Caledonia Dreamin’ and Oomph. Mostly posting this so I can look back, remind myself that publication is a joyous thing and then get on with some tedious editing. They’re dead good books though, you should buy them.
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Dreamin’
UPDATE: Now listed on Eibonvale’s website here. Now that I am almost recovered from the World Fantasy Hangover let me talk to you of cabbages and kings. Or possibly the single greatest thing that occurred to me there. The release of Caledonia Dreamin’. Caledonia Dreamin’ is an anthology of Strange Fiction based on Scots words…
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The Writing Is On The Wall
Oomph, the anthology from Crossed Genres is released today. Available in both eBook and real, physical, smells funny and gathers dust, paper formats. You can find it here and I look forward to reading some excellent stuff on the lower end of the super hero spectrum. Also, by way of a small plugette for the…
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The Return of the Pulp-O-Mizer
It turns out that anthologies are like buses. You wait for ages and then two turn up at once. Today the TOC for Oomph got announced and so, by way of celebration, I’ve been farting around on the Pulp-O-Mizer site again. So, coming soon in Oomph is; and in Caledonia Dreamin’;