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  • Listen to Dragonmeet’s Achtung! Cthulhu: Dark Tales From the Secret War panel in its entirety

    This year marks the release of my second short story, a horror piece appearing in Achtung! Cthulhu: Dark Tales from the Secret War in the coming months. Modiphius arranged a panel to promote the book at Dragonmeet in London just before Christmas. I was unable to attend, unfortunately, but fellow authors David J Rodger, Jonnie…

  • Achtung! Cthulhu: Dark Tales from the Secret War panel at Dragonmeet this Saturday

    If you’re in London this weekend, you should go along to the Achtung! Cthulhu: Dark Tales from the Secret War panel at Dragonmeet on Saturday. It starts at midday. Dark Tales from the Secret War is an anthology of short stories – including one of mine – based on P&P RPG Achtung! Cthulhu. Everyone in…

  • Don’t stop: 9 writing tips for aspiring authors

    I’ve read a lot of writing tips. Many of them are the same, and some of them don’t seem to mean anything at all. I’d like to offer some advice to those thinking of making a career from writing fiction. You’re going to need more than luck. 1 – Writing fiction is a fucking nightmare.…

  • Still going – my next book’s gone into editing

    Still going. I haven’t updated this for a while, but things are happening. Should blog more regularly, I guess. I’m now working on the second draft of my next book. The novel I completed in January is currently at agents. I’m sending it to the “everyone” list as my first choices all came back with rejections. I’ve been encouraged by…

  • I completed a novel

    I finished editing my novel today after completing a first draft in mid-October. This is the first time I’ve reached this point with a book. It’s final at 58,000 words. Agent queries will start in the next few weeks. The Ooning is no more. I made the decision to stop working on it in November…