In a few hours , I’ll be flying to The Stanley Hotel in Colorado for a five day horror writing retreat. The Stanley is the hotel that inspired Stephen King … Read More
“Shape your image and we’ll all be greedy”
I seem to remember hating Daisy Chainsaw‘s Love Your Money when it came out (way back in 1991). It’s noisy and on the surface pretty dumb but I was also fascinated with it … Read More
Metrics Monday – 20th October 2014
A surprisingly good week… That’s 9,326 words – certainly one of my most productive weeks, despite the fact I wasn’t concentrating on word count. I made a big push over the … Read More
Five Reasons I Built My Own Ebooks
Over the past three weeks, I’ve released three short stories as Kindle ebooks – a science fiction story called Bottled Lightning, an urban fantasy story called Saviour and Curfew, a supernatural … Read More
Tusk Equalizing
Monday was a holiday here in Canada so my wife and I decided to spend the afternoon watching a couple of films. First up, Kevin Smith’s Tusk. This one is … Read More
“Happy, happy birthday in a hot bath”
Since today happens to be my birthday, there was only one choice for this week’s music video – a 1981 classic from Altered Images. From the album of the same … Read More
Metrics Monday – 13th October 2014
This is the last week I’ll be trying to maintain my 1,000 words a day average. I cranked out 7,020 words on The Zombie Book, which is good. But … Read More
It’s a Wrap
Today marks the release of my third and final-for-the-time-being indie release – Curfew. I lovingly hand-crafted all of these books and I’ll be posting a few lessons I’ve learned along the way but … Read More
Cover Reveal – Curfew
As promised, it’s cover reveal time, this time for my third-and-final-for-the-time-being release – Curfew. Curfew is a post-apocalyptic supernatural thriller featuring a photographer living in a war ravaged city. It’s a short story, slightly … Read More
“Faith for bricks and dreams for mortar”
The font used on the Saviour cover is very close to Caslon Antique which to me will always be “The Sisters of Mercy font” – it’s the typeface used in their logo … Read More