Crazy. Feb­ru­ary, already? Where the hell did Jan­u­ary go? Ah, yes… <– that way.

Well, mov­ing on. I thought I’d toss out a block of text filled with updates. So here we go.

And The Stars Ran Red is about to be gone over. I’m work­ing up my appetite to make a final sweep over the FINAL draft before get­ting it onto the eBook shelves. All this build up, and it seems so ridicu­lous now. It’s not going to win any awards, I know that much — I still like it, don’t get me wrong, but it feels like… well, a lot of time spent on some­thing that many will sim­ply not care about. Which is fine, if I hadn’t cared for it for soooo long. Ha!

May 5 & The Assas­sin sales, we’ll see. It hasn’t been a rol­lick­ing suc­cess (not even friends and fam­ily seem that keen on buy­ing it and pre­tend­ing to read it — I know the jig, ain’t no secret!) but it’s out there, it’s a pub­lished book and I’m proud. It’s my first, so I don’t expect the world (maybe a moon though). I just enrolled it in Amazon’s KDP Select, so it’s free for Prime mem­bers to down­load and read, and 99c for the rest of you lot.

Only Shad­ows Ahead is bat­tling it out with my short story col­lec­tion. Nei­ther is win­ning, as I keep wan­der­ing off and writ­ing other short sto­ries… I guess that’s good though, eh? For a short story col­lec­tion I guess I’m mak­ing head­way. The Wendigo Hunt, August McCrae, and oth­ers will go into it. You could call it putting tasters out there, with writ­ing these shorts, post­ing them, and even­tu­ally tak­ing them down. FREE for now, I guess is the case. But not for­ever. So, I guess the short story col­lec­tion is win­ning after all.

Talk­ing of The Wendigo Hunt, I’ve put it up for the Fan­tasy Fac­tion Jan­u­ary Writ­ing Com­pe­ti­tion. Please visit, read and VOTE (top of page). I love the story as it gave me scope to try out some new (and old) ways of writ­ing I haven’t done for a while. For­got how fun it was to dance with poetry in your prose. It’s kind of west­ern meets super­nat­ural / fan­tasy, some­thing I enjoyed writ­ing in August McCrae.

Been read­ing Peter Newman’s The Vagrant over on his site. Great ser­ial — VERY imag­i­na­tive and rich in detail. Give it a poke (and let it poke you back).

I think I’m good at this junc­ture. Things are mov­ing for­ward and I’m not going to com­plain, because they could be stand­ing still!

(Also watched Home­land — which I keep call­ing Homi­cide. Not bad, not fan­tas­tic. But… enjoyable.)