Neomythologist

[...] Alan Moore @ Cultural Exchanges Festival, Leicester, March 4th 2011 Alan Moore, subversive author of genre-defying and ground-breaking tales such as Watchmen, V for Vendetta, [...]

[...] I'm very happy to have won the Dead of Night Award 2009 for Best Author, courtesy of Screaming Dreams. Screaming Dreams are an excellent independent outfit, delivering quality fiction and art [...]

[...] a dash of homoerotica. I'll let you know when they're available to read. The kind editor at Screaming Dreams has nominated my short story Fibs for a Dead of Night Award 2008. More info can be found on [...]

[...] . I was chuffed to find myself nominated this week for another Dead of Night award by Screaming Dreams. Last year I had two stories published in Estronomicon, Bordering Sunset and A Sword [...]

[...] to read. The kind editor at Screaming Dreams has nominated my short story Fibs for a Dead of Night Award 2008. More info can be found on their website www.screamingdreams.com Ok, that's about it for [...]

[...] of the angelic variety. I was chuffed to find myself nominated this week for another Dead of Night award by Screaming Dreams. Last year I had two stories published in Estronomicon, Bordering Sunset [...]

[...] I'm very happy to have won the Dead of Night Award 2009 for Best Author, courtesy of Screaming Dreams. Screaming Dreams are an excellent [...]

[...] can only be a good thing, right? Also, I'm really happy to have a new short story out Bordering Sunset which you can find and read for free here: http://www.screamingdreams.com/ezine/ [...]

[...] to have a new short story out in the Feb issue of the fabulous Estronomicon e-zine called Bordering Sunset and I have a rough ETA for the publication of my new e-book The Vampire Narcissus (more of a [...]

[...] of Night award by Screaming Dreams. Last year I had two stories published in Estronomicon, Bordering Sunset and A Sword of Ice-Brook Temper and it's nice to know they were appreciated. Anyone wanting [...]

[...] the family felt long overdue and has set me back up for a whole new journey. My short ghost story Fibs has been included in a special edition of the fabulous Estronomicon magazine. It& [...]

[...] to try one... ;) The fabulous Fiction Special of Estronomicon is now out, featuring my short ghost story Fibs (see link in previous post if you fancy reading it – it’s free!). In other [...]

[...] read John Brunner’s The Compleat Traveller in Black and also the Swords series by Fritz Leiber. Returning to Lankhmar after so many years has been a real treat! So, two chapters off [...]

[...] . ©Boris Vallejo The innocence of these early stories starts to give way under the wit of Fritz Leiber. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser first appeared in 1939 and their published adventures span five [...]

[...] that seemed to do the trick. I'm very pleased to see that my upcoming mini-novella The Vampire Narcissus has appeared in the 'Coming Soon' section on the Screaming Dreams website. I'll [...]

[...] Bordering Sunset and I have a rough ETA for the publication of my new e-book The Vampire Narcissus (more of a long short story really) in March. Both stories deal with the vampire myth, [...]

[...] , something I never do. In fact, in writing this book I think my whole approach has changed. Dialogue tags are becoming rarer, I’m getting a bit crispier, and I can feel the last dregs of purple [...]

[...] comes without a struggle. I’ve learnt loads about dialogue and more importantly dialogue tags. I’ve learnt that you don’t always know your own story as well as you think [...]

[...] to be a little flowery, but hey, let’s hope readers forgive me that! It is Fantasy with a capital F after all! I’ll leave you with a new poem: Speed of Dark Can you trace the speed of dark [...]

[...] and partly because I wanted to get back in touch with my influences. If you like Fantasy with a capital F and you haven’t already, you should read John Brunner’s The Compleat Traveller in [...]