Month: June 2011

Bub, from Day Of The DeadI heard a programme on Radio 4 the other day called Vampires vs Zombies. Colon-stompingly awesome, you might think...but bear in mind that this was Radio 4, so there was less of the relentless visceral blood-spattered cerebellum chewing and more of the psychological investigation of the relative sociocultural evolutions of… Continue reading Vampires vs Zombies

A recent post by C. J. Hall (well, relatively recent) is about how independent high-street bookshops are dwindling away and dying, leaving only the homogenised W.H. Borderstones Etc or the write-by-numbers horrors of the supermarket aisle as the last repository of actual physical books that we can leaf through and sniff and rub against ourselves… Continue reading Obscure books

A friend of mine recently e-mailed me the logo that he's designed for his new business - Cuculo, an Italian delicatessen, which unfortunately I can only parse as a Spanish person with a stutter trying to say the word "arse" - and although the design was great, the choice of colours made me pause: he'd… Continue reading The colour and the shape

Anaspides photography Iain D Williams I've just found out that the Extinct Doesn't Mean Forever short story anthology (containing my short piece The Restoration Man) will be supporting the Save The Tasmanian Devil Program.It looks as though proceeds from sales of the anthology will go to the charity throughout the month of July, so if… Continue reading Extinct supports Tasmanian devils

The Tunbridge Wells Writers group continues to evolve, so now seems like a good time to introduce some of the other writers from the group:Chris Hall - fiction - writer of The Laurel Harvest, a novel, as well as an excellent trilogy of short stories built around the theme of famous historical figures visiting the… Continue reading The other Tunbridge Wells writers