Up all night with a wild idea
One of my characters – one of the ones who I’ve always thought was fantastic, but just never wanted to fit into anything – has turned out to be female. I know that sounds a little odd – you’d think the...
View ArticleGay Australian Romance – now at 8300/15000. 6700 to go!
I’m chugging along at the gay Australian romance, which is a request for an anthology. I’d like to note that this is the first time I’ve ever written a gay Australian romance, and this may be why I’m...
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Contracts are eating my ass
I’m working on three contract-related stories: 1. Jasper and the Dead. A gay Australian romance novella, which is at 10500/15000. This thing is a monster that I’m very uninspired about – I’m just not...
View ArticleSky-pirate anthology: More things I have to do
I’ve finished Jasper and the Dead, the novella that’s been eating my ass and my brain for the past few months. I never connected with the characters or the plot, due possibly to the fact I...
View ArticleWIP: Six days in quarantine
I’ve got a Katya Sushi story that’s… percolating although I’ve not a clue where it’s going to wind up. Katya really is a pretty awful person, and I’m saying that as someone who writes about cannibals,...
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Open for business
Okay folk, I think I’m open again for commissioned fiction and/or anthology requests. I’ve currently got a novel and two short-stories on my commission list, plus a short-story for a charity anthology,...
View ArticleMizzenmast – plotting out the novel
Having completed the anthology (Signs over the Pacific) and the novella (Jasper and the Dead), I’ve got one last major project on my to-do list before I can start working on my own stuff. That project...
View ArticleExcerpt – Chapter 4, Mizzenmast
When Royal Ottoman was thirteen he found a funny lump in his chest, a tiny nodule shaped a bit like a jelly bean. At the time he didn’t think it was anything important. He’d had funny lumps before:...
View ArticleNew Book, New Sale, Usual whining
Recently (yesterday!) discovered that one of my books is going to be picked up, although I’m waiting to get the contract before I say too much! The book is a “writing challenge” I gave myself: write a...
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