Merry Christmas!

A long Heavy Ice out-take here, and a shorter one under the cut. Merry Christmas!

Seasonal heads-up

This year, due to house moving, there won’t be an original story up on the site for December 25th. There will, however, be a deleted scene from Heavy Ice. (Yes, amazingly, the book could have been even longer!). In the meantime, here’s another short out-take, which got replaced by the scene where Raj met Dante.

House hunting, review, and thoughts on new trends in publishing

Well, I’m back from looking for a new house, and we now at least have somewhere to rent while we look for somewhere more permanent to house two people, one cat (hopefully rising to more than one cat when we’re properly settled), a huge number of books and fewer old computers than we owned last […]

A few quick links

Tom Cox talks about his covers in The Long Road To Three Good Book Covers: A Timeline. About which all I can say is that cute as the ‘actor kittens’ are, putting them on the cover instead of The Bear is like putting a sixth-former who thinks he can act a bit into King Lear […]

Seasonal joys

Lulu has just sent me a 30% off code ‘for you and your friends, family and readers’ which I suppose means you lot, though it doesn’t mention ‘people with a burning need to know whether Palatino is the same as Palatino Linotype’ or ‘random spammers’, both of whom also occasionally drop by. The French rappers […]

December 1st Is Heavy Ice Day

Today my fourth book is officially launched. The paperbacks have arrived at Amazon, the last couple of last-minute spelling and grammar flubs have been corrected (though I bet there are at least a couple more hiding in there, and I apologise for that) and it’s ready to face the world. Many, many thanks are due […]