As a follow up from the Daisy Chainsaw video from a couple of weeks ago, here’s a track by Queen Adreena (or Queenadreena if you prefer). A pretty representative track … Read More
Metrics Monday – 3rd November 2014
Two updates this week as I missed last week due to my trip to The Stanley Hotel. First up, October 20th-26th A slow start to the week and then the … Read More
Thoughts on a Writing Retreat (2014)
The first Stanley Hotel Writers Retreat was fantastic. Lots of friendly people, good food, a great location and a nice selection of trips and events for anyone who wanted time … Read More
“Back to life, back to reality”
‘Nuff said [“Back to life, back to reality” by Philip Harris first appeared on Solitary Mindset on 29th October 2014]
The Stanley Hotel Writers Retreat
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