Novel Update
I got the revised proof back yesterday. Apart from the slight ‘indent’ problem on the dedications page as seen above, it was bloody gorgeous! Except… when I gave the okay … Continue reading
Love, Death and the Crucial Three Update.
The proof arrived, and I wasn’t happy. Word was being weird (who’d’ve thunk), and although everything looked fine on the doc. There were enormous gaps in the text and often … Continue reading
Is this thing on?
So…my last post was back in April. That’s… not great. In my defence, I got post-PhD fatigue and could not bear the idea of writing. I had a couple of … Continue reading
Weird and Eerie (2) The Phantom Hitch-Hiker
Part Two – The Phantom Hitch Hiker. i. Thumbs It is 1981, and my friend Mark had just bought his first car. We would go for night drives, searching for … Continue reading
Weird and Eerie (1) – Last Train To London Dark – Part Two.
xiii. Rik Rack Recumbent On a bench outside the main gate of King’s Cross Station, I see a familiar face. Rik Rack has poured himself into a solid wooden bench … Continue reading
Melancholia and the Janus Hue – Part Two
vi ‘Since the Saturnine temperament is slow, prone to indecisiveness, sometimes one has to cut one’s way through with a knife. Sometimes one ends by turning the knife against oneself.’ … Continue reading
Melancholia and the Janus Hue – Part One
i ‘To attempt to write a guide to such an amorphous concept as melancholy is overwhelmingly impossible, such is the breadth and depth of the topic, the disciplinary territories, the … Continue reading
Lunar Module and the Call of The Sea (Part Two)
V My parents did not like or approve of Science Fiction. It seemed odd to shun a single genre like that, especially as I was also a horror fan, but … Continue reading
Lunar Module and the Call of the Sea (Part One)
I On Monday mornings at infant school, we did something called ‘News and Stories.’ These days it is known as ‘Show and Tell’ but ‘News and Stories’ had an additional … Continue reading
All this and Soft Play, too… (On Self Editing)
I’ve been asked to illustrate a point about ‘self-editing,’ in terms of agoraphobia. The answer is that I can’t. Not directly, anyway. The problem with agoraphobia, as I mention in … Continue reading
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