Farewell, 2016

Philip HarrisChatter

Continuing my tradition of posting end of year wrap ups late… 2016 was a mixed year for me, personally. We lost a lot of great people including some of my … Read More

On Goals

Philip HarrisChatter

Happy New Year! So, it’s New Year’s Resolution time again. I’m not really a New Year’s Resolution kind of guy. I do set “resolutions” but I do it when the … Read More

An Unmitigated Disaster

Philip HarrisChatter, Writing

I’m now about 66,000 words into the final book in the Leah King trilogy, The Girl in the Machine, and I’ve reached the point where I’m convinced it’s an unmitigated disaster. … Read More

Sold! – The Ride

Philip HarrisChatter, Stories, Writing

So far this year, I’ve submitted short stories to magazines and anthologies fourteen times. Last weekend I got my second acceptance. My very short story, The Ride will be published at Dark Fuse … Read More

August Writing Update

Philip HarrisChatter, Writing

I’ve realised I haven’t posted any writing updates for a while so I thought I’d avoid working on my latest short story by giving an update instead. The last few months have been … Read More

April Update

Philip HarrisChatter, Metrics, Writing

I remember a time when I used to post here pretty much every day. Good times. Talking of good times, the last couple of months have been less than stellar – … Read More

Instability Stabilised

Philip HarrisChatter

And we’re back. Mostly. There’s still some tweaking to do with colours and few fonts on some of the pages but for the most part things seem to be okay. … Read More

Spatial Instability Detected

Philip HarrisChatter

I’m going to be reworking the website this weekend so expect pages to vanish, look terrible or just basically misbehave. Should be sorted by Monday.