Impulse Buy

I don’t buy from Internet ads. I really don’t. I totally get that the commercial realities of modern life require, under the capitalist model, that to get things means you have to spend other things, so that the people who make the first things can take the things you give them and use them to […]

Words for sale – may contain ideas.

Hey! Hey you, c’mere. Want to buy some words? They’re fresh. More or less, and they’ve been put in an order that makes sense. More or less. The first hit is cheap, you’ll like it. And you can quit anytime. More or less.

Oh my gosh

I’m far more excited than I have any right to be after receiving notification of a piddling little electronic payment. My first ever royalties for my novel have just come through and while it will barely cover the cost of the new ICRPG core rulebook coming out today I am very happy indeed – Guess […]

Cold Artistry

They took him at wordpoint (the gun was not visible but had been mentioned) into the basement. It was cold and well lit and there were shelves on which the usual basement detritus lurked dustily. In the centre of the floor was a gurney on which lay a dead body. That did not shock him, […]

Sister, Waiting.

I start and end here on the timeless rocks, and the sea is endless. Here is the place where I rest, and feast, and rejoice, and mourn and where I wait, where I always wait. Here on the rocks where once I saw long low ships with bright sails, distant things with black winged birds […]

Product Recall – Sort of.

ARRGGGGTo anybody kind enough to have purchased a copy of my novel “A Step Beyond Context” – give it 24 hours and redownload it from Amazon (doesn’t cost you anything more – just go to “Manage Devices and Downloads”) as I’ve just spotted (and corrected) an egregious error in the last chapter where a character […]

A Step Beyond Context

My first novel A Step Beyond Context is now available to download from Amazon (.co.uk, .com and so on). It’s the tale of a woman who leads a variety of lives across a variety of different worlds and what happens when she walks away from the dystopian cyberpunk city where she makes her living as a […]