Category: published
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Self-isolating for charity
WASH YOUR HANDS!! Hello, I hope you’re all well in these difficult and frankly bizarre times. It is difficult to know how the next few months are going to pan out but it does look like it will be difficult for many people through illness or their employer’s being selfish bastards. To try to help…
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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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A face for radio
This writing thing has led to many odd things but, in what is probably the strangest, today I find myself on a podcast. Speculative Spaces Podcast. Local great person, Beth Faulds, has started doing a podcast where she chats to writers (local at present but she’d love to branch out so if you know anyone…
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2018: The Year of Distractions
Hello all and welcome to what was supposed to be an annual blog post, rounding up the year but, as it turns out, I’ve not posted anything since this time last year. Oops, I’ve been distracted. So, what have I been doing? First and foremost, I’ve had the joy of two stories being published. Just…
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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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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…