Reading Time: 8 minutesOne cold bright day in April, Margaret looked out onto her farm and saw the future in her pigs. Not ham nor bacon for them, she vowed, but something more befitting the fancy French names she’d given them in the little French she misunderstood. There went Hautain, the thinnest and snootiest of the lot, his…
Read An E-book Week
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs part of this year’s Read An E-Book Week, March 2nd to March 8th, get all of my books FREE* *not available at Amazon or Apple Enjoy!
Girl In Some Cafe, Dreaming
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe war was far enough away now that the two soldiers could pass their mornings inventing the lives of others. They sat at the rear of the café, feet up, hats down, whispering their inventions to each other upon the arrival of every new patron. “A great romantic,” Sasha said, as a big man with…
The Shadows That Grew On Blakely Close
Reading Time: 3 minutesAfterword to the novel, The Bennington Boy Writers keep lists. Lists of things to do, which quickly become lists of things not done. Lists of character names never to be christened on the page. In my case, I have lists of titles, hundreds of them. My latest novel, The Bennington Boy, began a long time…
Paint It White
Reading Time: 3 minutesAfterword to the novella, The Girl Who Dreamed a War Where do stories begin? Most of the time it’s hard to pinpoint, but in the case of my novella, The Girl Who Dreamed a War, I know exactly when the story began and how it would always have to end. It took me thirty years…
Dancing In the Dark
Reading Time: 3 minutesAfterword to the novella, Flowers of the Moon My fingers touched the home row. I saw Whitestone manor, glowing in the darkness of some lost English night; a grail to the lost soul that is Patrick Hill. His car dies in the darkness. He finds light, but it’s an unexpected light, and then… …from a…
Not So Stranger Things
Reading Time: 3 minutesFriday evening, three decades past. The internet is still science-fiction. Only 4 Channels exist on British TV, and if I want to play video games it’s the ZX Spectrum with all 3 of its glorious colours on the screen at a time. Fortunately, I’m a reader, and for me Friday night is the most special…