A selection of images including the cover to Titanic Terastructures, A Quiet Afternoon 2, Thirty Years of Rain, New Maps, Shoreline of Infinity, K-Zine, Flotation Device and Magical Crime Scene Investigation. In the centre are two painted images, one of a frazzled ginger haired woman drinking tea and one of a Sikh gentleman holding a bucket and sword and facing pink tentacles

Brian M. Milton, SF&F writing and nonsense

Munchkin’s Mind

  • World Fantasy Con, or How To Drink Your Way To Fame

    I’m on the train leaving Brighton and World Fantasy Con. This is my first Fantasy Con and the po-faced nature of some of the publicity had made me worry it was a bit staid. I could not have been more wrong. I had a brilliant time. Every day was busy and every night long and…

  • 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…

  • The Return of the Pulp-O-Mizer

    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’;

  • Caledonia Dreamin’

    Not posted here in a while due to mucking about with a novel length piece of nonsense and so not much happening. (Actually, I’ve been watching too much Doctor Who in the run up to the 50th anniversary but I like to fool myself I have a reason for not writing so much short fiction…

  • Mud, mud, glorious mud

    Well lummee! The purple patch is now looking like a small purple lawn as the fine people in charge of an anthology called Caledonia Dreamin have accepted my story. Excitingly, the last plan I heard featured launching the anthology at World Fantasy Con, which I will be at, so I may get the chance to…

  • Stolen ideas

    So, I have had an idea knocking round my head for years. Imagine a city as a train, thundering round the world. Then imagine how the class system would develop. Several years back I wrote a short story set on that train. It was suggested I might want to lengthen the story. So I turned…

  • The Art of Cake Baking

    Do you like cake? Then you should go to Unspoken Water right now and buy issue four. They have very kindly published a short by me on the subject of cake baking. I would tell you the title, but I have changed it so often I can’t remember what it is now. Sharon tells me…

  • The Purple Patch Continues

    I’ve been oddly hanging back on announcing this one (damn weirdy paranoia) but last weekend I had another acceptance, this time from some lovely people at Crossed Genres. They are putting together a superhero anthology and I felt it needed some mention of Nitshill Bowling Club. It appears to be another step along my educational…

  • Paid! Paid I tells you. I’ve been paid! I had this down as my “Thing to aim for before I am 40.” Will have to think of something else to aim for in the next year now.

  • Morpheus Tales cover

    Morpheus Tales cover

    The cracking cover for Morpheus Tales Apocalypse Special Read the first couple of stories so far and I’ve really enjoyed them. By the way, they have a discount on today should you feel like purchasing. But no matter how good that cover is, it won’t stop me Pulp-O-Mizing my own one.

Got a burning desire to tell me something? Currently the best place to find me is on Mastodon. See the icon below.