The Spoons That Are My Ears!

Since I returned to writing plays seven years ago, I have often wondered if any of them would ever be performed. Well, two of them have now,...

The premiere of two of my plays will take place this coming Saturday (11th October) and I am delighted by the fact. The venue is Volcano The...

My most recent book is collection of tribute stories to Daniil Kharms . Eighty linked flash fictions that attempt to express and reflect the...

My new book is a short novel, a comedic fantasy full of strange characters and stranger incidents. It is the first book in the "Knick K...

It appears that my book Tangents has finally been published. It's a novella that is actually a framed series of flash fictions. It was ...

This book took a long time to come together. I never intended to write a linked series of fictions themed on Egypt. It just happened. The ...

Three years after I wrote it (fifteen years after I first had the idea) my science fiction novella, ROBOTS IN LOVE , is a reality. In other...

I rarely write poetry these days. I haven't stopped but my production rate has dropped. I now average maybe five or six new poems every ...

The publishers of my recent book, THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT , have been a dream to work with. They interviewed me for a podcast and that inte...

My new book has just been published and I am delighted with it. My delight isn't surprising really, as I tend to be delighted with most ...

The third and final Gibbon Moon poetry anthology has just been published. Last August, for no good reason, I took a photo of my washing hang...

Four months ago I asked: Which is the better title for a collection of quirky poems? (1) Romantic Onion Antics . (2) Amorous Onion Antics . ...

My best fantasy novel (in my view) is a subterranean pilgrim's progress. It's also an eschatological epic, a paranormal picaresque, ...

I think I can safely say that after today I never need to think about drabbles again. DABBLER IN DRABBLES is done and dusted: the Omnibus e...

Writing In 2024 I wrote 55 stories. Most were very short and can be found in my SECOND HAND HANDS collection. But I did manage a few more s...

I have finished writing the fourth volume of my Dabbler in Drabbles project. Together, all four volumes contain exactly 1000 drabbles. The ...

My new story collection features fifty stories, the vast majority of which have never been published before (47 are new). These are mostly b...

My novel Growl at the Moon was recently published by Telos Publishing . It's a Weird Western, not the first I have written but (in my o...

The second anthology in the TRIPLE OBSCURA series has been published. TRIPLE OBSCURA #2 is available as a paperback and ebook. The TRIPLE ...

My first book to be published in Britain under a non-Tory government is a poetry collection that I happen to regard as my best poetry book s...

My new book is here... It should have been published four years ago by an independent publisher based in India (with a unique typographical ...

The third volume of my Dabbler in Drabbles project has been published. As I have said elsewhere, this is a four volume work. There will be ...

Last year I wrote a weird Western called The Sunset Suite . It's actually a set of flash fictions linked by a framing device. The novel...

I have written 1104 stories in the past thirty-three years, but if I had to choose only one to survive an unspecified disaster, I would sele...

My second book of the year is the second volume of my Dabbler in Drabbles project, a four volume extravaganza. There will be one thousand d...

My first book of the year 2024 is in fact only the first volume of a four volume project. Dabbler in Drabbles will consist of exactly one-t...

I was supposed to give up writing short-stories last year, when I finally wrote my 1000th, but I kept going (as some people said I would). A...

The chapbook that was recently published by Mount Abraxas Press (see one of the blog posts below) has now been turned into a book with paper...

A new anthology series has just been launched. TRIPLE OBSCURA #1 is available as a paperback and ebook. The TRIPLE OBSCURA anthologies will...

My massive book of fairy tales has just been published, MY BIG GLIB BOOK OF FLIPPANT FAIRY TALES . Hundreds and hundreds of pages of fiction...

There is a website devoted to books that I am very fond of. It is called Shepherd and it acts as a refreshing alternative to Goodreads. It ...

I am retiring Gloomy Seahorse Press, which was my first small-press venture. Ten years is long enough for a small-press imprint. Any future ...

A chapbook of four of my ghost tales has been published. These stories are more Gothicky and less whimsical than most of my Weird fiction. I...

My new book, Adventures With Immortality , has recently been published in the USA by Oddness. It is a collection featuring stories all conce...

I am now a married man. We went for our honeymoon to a remote part of the Western Ghats, staying on a coffee plantation. The day before we l...

No more self-published poetry books from me, at least for the time being, unless something happens to make me change my mind, which is not b...