A Thrilling Announcement My story “The Cowherd,” starring Occult Investigator Simon Wake, and set in Edwardian England, is in the excellent magazine Occult Detective Quarterly (issue 3). Buy it here from Amazon. Above, you can see my own concept of what Simon Wake looks like (and, as usual, that’s me… Continue reading
A Thrilling Announcement! A story of mine is available now in the July 2017 issue of Mystery Weekly Magazine! And the kind editors of this excellent publication decided to give my story top billing, too. I didn’t know they were going to do that until I saw the cover. As… Continue reading
A story of mine will be appearing in an upcoming issue of Occult Detective Quarterly. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the story features an Occult Detective (one Simon Wake). My piece will probably be in issue 3 or 4. About ODQ Occult Detective Quarterly #1 is lots of fun. I recommend it highly… Continue reading
We (and by ‘we,’ what I mean is ‘I’) at Atherton’s Magic Vapour do occasionally venture out of our cozy digital manor in order to pay little social calls upon neighbors. Hearing a rumour that one of our acquaintances had actually Written a Book, we, pausing only to don gloves,… Continue reading
The remarkable Hannah Givens, comic-book savant and all-round awesome person, has done me the honor of including me in a Freestyle Writing Challenge. The rules are below. My prompt was as follows: Write a scene of inconvenient emotion Here is my response: Mirth In Funeral It was perfect funeral weather.… Continue reading
First, a doleful announcement: I have failed to attain the dizzy heights of Round 2 of the NYC Midnight Short Story Competition. Jack And The Banshee-Bird was, in the judge’s opinion, pretty good, but not quite good enough. Alas! But, gentle reader, do not repine! I have a piece of… Continue reading
Ahem. Hello! Below is my story for Round 2 of the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Contest (For an explanation of the contest, click on the link!). My assignment this time was: Genre: Horror (yes!) Location: A Foreclosed Home Object: A Rabbit’s Foot Word limit was 1000 words. I think my… Continue reading
Hey! So, I like writing contests. In fact, I love them. There is something about them that really gets my creativity flowing. It might be the pressure, or the deadline, or the distant possibility of fabulous prizes; whatever it is, I love it. So, I have paid my money in… Continue reading
I don’t generally like thrillers. There are, of course, some exceptions to this rule; for example, Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris, is a both a damn fine book and a thriller. However, most thrillers I have attempted to read are both dull and alarming. They seem to lack whimsy and… Continue reading
Hey there! So, sometimes I submit stories to various people, in the hope that I will receive money and Increased Visibility by so doing. It may sound sordid, but it is actually quite good fun, and I now recommend it as a health-tonic to those in my circle of acquaintances… Continue reading
