Fiction

  • The Particular Salinity Of Tears

    The Particular Salinity Of Tears

    Thalia walks the beach each day. She goes at dawn when the sun pinks the sky behind the hills and dew pearls the grass along the roadside. The beach is small and narrow, nestled between two outcrops of rock where seals bask with their pups. Low tide doesn’t add much to the beach’s depth. It…

  • My Top 5 Horror Books

    Do you like to be scared? Not the oh-my-gawd-there’s-a-madman-with-an-axe-chasing-me-down-the-corridor type of scared, but the ‘safe’ scare of a good horror film or book, the type of scare where the monster stays safely inside the cinema or the pages of your book? I do. While you’d never catch me on a rollercoaster, the thrill ride of…

  • I Don’t Know What to Write!

    I’m a terrible procrastinator. I could represent Scotland in the Avoiding What You Should Be Doing olympics, such is my talent for being busy with anything except writing. And does this proficiency make me happy? No. So why do I do it? I was chatting about my low word count to Gary Parkin yesterday evening.…

  • Carniepunk by Various

    I have always found carnivals and traveling fairs very sinister places; places where the ‘freaks’ and dispossessed gather together and, at least in my imagination, seduce the unaware into the underworld, never to be seen again. It seems I’m not alone in my madness as Carniepunk, an anthology of urban fantasy stories set in and…

  • The Cover

    My short story collection is a whole mix of genres: it may even shock you to know that there’s a couple of romance stories in there too. I know! But most of what I write tends towards the dark and humorous and I felt the cover should reflect this. I didn’t want to have an…

  • An Interview with Laurence MacNaughton

    Following my review of Conspiracy of Angels yesterday, I was lucky enough to secure an interview with the talented Mr. MacNaughton himself. I hope you enjoy it and if you read on to the bottom you’ll find out how you can win a digital copy of Conspiracy of Angels for yourself. Hi Laurence! Can you share…

  • The Rabbi In The Attic by Eileen Pollack

    The Rabbi In The Attic is a collection of short stories written by Eileen Pollack who covers a wide range of topics . In The Rabbi In The Attic, Eileen Pollack has brought together a

  • Kissing Frankenstein & Other Stories

    As part of this year’s National Flash Fiction Day celebrations, the lovely and talented Rachel Carter set up a blog to find the best flash fiction written by the people of the West Country. As a result of this brilliant project, Kissing Frankenstein & Other Stories, an anthology of the best stories submitted, was produced.…

  • The Detour by Andromeda Romano-Lax

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] Ernst Vogler is a young man who has been tasked with bringing an ancient statue, The Discus Thrower, to Germany in 1938, where is will be added to Hitler’s collection. He travels to Rome by train only to find that instead of returning the statue to Germany by rail as he was…

  • The Devil’s Music by Jane Rusbridge

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I had heard nothing but praise for The Devil’s Music and was keen to read it for myself so I nudged it up the TBR pile. And I am very glad I did. Jane Rusbridge has written a book so full of heartbreak and longing using the simplest of language, yet has…