Better late than never, right? The endless cheese fog has lifted and I'm gearing up to returning to work tomorrow - the same day my eldest leaves us to return to university. Normal life will resume, which is depressing enough, and I'm doing dry-ish January. What the hell is 'dry-ish' January? Well, I have set... Continue Reading →
Fantasycon 2024
I love Fantasycon. It's an amazing experience, full of friendly faces and like minded people where I go to recharge my writer battery. I haven't written much in the last year. Firstly, work has been kicking my arse and secondly, I've been editing The Original's Rage (out 15th November! Preorders available here). After a weekend... Continue Reading →
My month!
I'm far too sporadic a poster to keep a blog up to date, as there's always something else I should be doing. However, talking about what I'm reading, watching and listening to should be pretty easy to do, right? Right? Anyway, without any further ado: Reading I'm bouncing between two books at the moment -... Continue Reading →
A Song For The End by Kit Power
I may as well start this with a disclaimer: I am a big fan of Kit Power's writing. If you read my best of 2020, you'll have seen My Life In Horror on there, which was a series of articles originally written for Gingernuts of Horror. It is an absolutely superb collection of essays on... Continue Reading →
My best of a shit year
Compiling any ‘best of’ list is always tricky and usually scorn inducing; how can he put that on there as this is so much better? If that’s you when you finish reading this, well, you can always make your own damn list.
Review of My Life in Horror by Kit Power
I'll save some time here straight away: this is an excellent book, and is worth a place on any horror fan's shelf. Kit takes us through his childhood memories and significant events all in terms of horror. We learn his favourite film is Robocop in an hilarious but heartfelt essay (I think he's wrong, it's... Continue Reading →
David Watkins 