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A ghost footballerImagine the unlikely situation in which I have been signed by a Premiership football team. Let's call that team Livtottenchestersea Citynited. Imagine now that instead of actually playing for the oily badgers (which is of course the nickname given to Livtottenchestersea Citynited, who of course play in wet-look black and white stripes), I… Continue reading Ghost Football, With Steven Gerrard

Not like this.Not at quarter past three, with a full crowd and your lads out there like animals, vicious and spitting and ready to run through  walls for you. Not on the last day. Not when you’re top of the bloody league and one point ahead of United.The chairman still can’t believe it, even though… Continue reading Flash Fiction: "By Default"

I saw an advert for some kind of stock cube yesterday, and part of the messaging for it was the idea that it "really brings out the flavour of beef", which reminded me of the way people talk about salt."Ooh," they say, "I always add salt," they say, "It really brings out the flavour [of… Continue reading Salt adds the flavour of salt, of course

Eight MagpiesThere were eight magpies in the field behind the house. One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told. That's how the rhyme goes. So what did eight magpies mean? It could be a girl… Continue reading Flash Fiction: "Eight Magpies"

The day is finally here - the Kindle All Stars anthology has been released into the wild!It's now available as an ebook on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, and I'm reliably informed that it will be available on Barnes & Noble and in hardcopy soon...Buy it! Read it! Love it!Or hate it!But still buy it!

As the title of this blog post says, the cover art for the inaugural Kindle All Stars anthology, Resistance Front, has now been finalised, and I have to say it looks fantastic. Really smart. And it certainly captures the "revolutionary" vibe that Bernard has been aiming for in this most indie of indie publishing endeavours.Take… Continue reading Kindle All Stars cover art finalised

I am today's featured Kindle All Stars author interview on Fringe Scientist! Click here to read it. I have to say that Tony has kindly written a glowing and extremely generous intro for me, and I feel very flattered by it.  In terms of the anthology itself, the manuscript has been finalised and is being… Continue reading Fringe Scientist Kindle All Stars author interview

Within Blogger, the platform that I use to publish this site, there is a rather neat statistics function that allows you to monitor how many visitors are coming to your site, where they are coming from and, in the even that they are coming from a search engine, what key words and phrases they have… Continue reading A tale of two tails

The other day C. J. Hall and I were talking about writing a piece of fiction about Margaret Thatcher once she'd died. We came up with two completely different ways of approaching it, each of which would be fun in different ways. The first approach involved doing careful research and portraying her sympathetically as a… Continue reading Riding roughshod over Margaret Thatcher’s still-warm corpse