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Whilst living as my alter-ego of a deluded martial arts wannabe I recently wrote an article for Vision TKD about the ITF Taekwon-Do pattern Juche. The article is called The Dilemma Of Juche, and it explores my hypothesis that the removal of the pattern Ko-Dang and its replacement by the pattern Juche was done by… Continue reading The Dilemma Of Juche

When I first started writing, when I was young and stupid and naive (or at least younger and more stupid and more naive), I wrote about big things.I wrote about life and death, I wrote about the nature of existence, I wrote about the individuality of human perception. I wrote an entire novel that will… Continue reading Narrowing the lens

I am an adultI'm not ashamed to admit that I play video games. I'm similarly not ashamed to admit that I'm old enough that I call them computer games, because I first started playing them on the ZX Spectrum in about 1983. I enjoy the escapism of them, and the sense of challenge and accomplishment,… Continue reading Narrative in video games

Throughout the month of November, ahead of the impending launch of Resistance Front, Tony Healey will be interviewing authors involved in the Kindle All Stars project at his website, Fringe Scientist. This will include interviews with Harlan Ellison and Alan Dean Foster! I've provided him with an interview, which I think is scheduled for week… Continue reading Fringe Scientist Interviews

I heard someone on the radio the other day extolling the death of the print publishing industry.This isn't new, and it isn't necessarily something that I would normally take issue with. The analogy that he used to describe it, however, did make me think. He said that he thought that within twenty years there would… Continue reading As dead as the horse

Yesterday I downloaded a short story from one of the other authors involved in the Kindle All-Stars project - Frank by Tony Healey. I really enjoyed it. It is very much an action adventure story, and it is firmly plot-driven, but it doesn't sacrifice character for plot. The protagonist - craggy anti-hero Frank - certainly… Continue reading Frank by Tony Healey

What are the mysterious images on Channel Six? What do they mean? Who is the man in the hospital bed? Find out in the macabre triptych Totentanz! US: http://amzn.to/tentanzUK: http://amzn.to/tentanzukDo not adjust your set!

See life (or rather death) through the eyes of a zombie - only in the macabre triptych Totentanz!US: http://amzn.to/tentanzUK: http://amzn.to/tentanzukDiscover how the shambling hordes of the undead really feel! Experience for yourself their lust for blood! Feel for yourself their vicious hunger for human flesh! All from the safety of your Kindle!

My horror short story collection is now available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.It's called Totentanz: A Macabre Triptych and I gave it that title because a) "Totentanz" is German for "dance of death" (what I knew as the French "Danse Macabre"), ii) it contains three short stories, and 3) I'm a pretentious git.The first story is… Continue reading Totentanz

Without really setting out to, I've started recycling in my writing.I'm not talking about simple copy-and-paste replication of sentences or paragraphs, though; that would be lazy and creatively bankrupt. No; I'm talking about responsible recycling. At its most basic level it is simply incorporating names, places or entities into multiple pieces of writing. Things like… Continue reading Literary recycling