Fantasy and Science Fiction Author

02/08/2026

For my recent readings, I had the phone set up to one side recording another angle, so I could cut between it and the camcorder that was looking straight on. When I got the footage into the editing program, I realised the colour balance was completely different between the two.

I could've graded the phone's output to make it match the camera's, but that felt too much like hard work. This is a still frame from the phone, to give you some idea of what it might've looked like.

I still have a couple of readings from those sessions to edit, so I might give it a go after all.

02/08/2026

A reading of "...apart from all the others", which appears in my sci-fi collection Racing the Storm and Other Stories.

I can neither confirm nor deny that I have a specific programming language in mind as the worst (or third worst) ever invented.

01/08/2026

Seaside Shuffle: A Blackpool Anthology is on sale today! Over 50 stories, poems and memoirs about Blackpool, that famous seaside place. Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered. If you haven't go your copy yet, you can order it at your favourite online retailer.

My contribution, The Misadventure of the Lion's Ear, is on page 76. If you're familiar with my work, you might be surprised to learn that it's one of the shorter stories in the book :-)

31/07/2026

What I did in July, hurrah!

The anthology that I mentioned a while back goes on sale on Saturday 1st August. It's called Seaside Shuffle, and is a collection of stories, poems a...

29/07/2026

I just sent the August edition of my newsletter to subscribers. No short story this month, but lots of other goodies. Subscribe and see for yourself what all the fuss is about -

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19/07/2026

A reading of Blame the Cat, from my sci-fi collection Racing the Storm and Other Stories. A quantum cryptographer rewrites history to turn evil into good.

I've posted readings of this one before, but they've been in noisy environments. I had the place to myself this time.

18/07/2026

A reading of part of chapter 3 of The Last Dragonrider, in which Rider Neeru discovers something that will change her life.

14/07/2026

And now for something much less serious... this is Albert's Return, a sequel to The Lion and Albert, the famous tale of young Albert Ramsbottom and his nasty mishap with a lion in Blackpool.

13/07/2026

A reading of chapter 1 of my latest novel, The Last Dragonrider.

12/07/2026

Are you sitting comfortably? About to record some more readings from my books.