Beautiful and haunting images from all three graphic novels - Starblood, Psychonaut, and Black Sun

Melissa Powell had been brought up to think she ws special; on what was supposed to be her night of triumph forty people were slaughtered...

When I started out, eleven years ago, I was a pantster. I started with a blank page and nothing beyond a vague idea I wanted to explore...

Last night I read a murder scene from my debut novel Starblood. I've been reading the book chapter by chapter and you can find chapters 1...

8,600 words into my new novel, "The Secret Lives of Melissa Powell", other possible title include "The Witch of Witchwood" and "The Witch...

31.587 recorded COVID-19 deaths in the UK so far, and 215,260 confirmed cases, but the actual number might be much higher due to lack of...

Lee Franklin, writer of this short story, has been an avid reader from a young age and discovered a penchant for the dark. She is...

We've had the odd meltdown this week, inevitable perhaps with two teenagers stuck in the same house as us. But on the plus side, I've...

What would our vital organs say if they had voices, and how would we react if we overheard their complaints? Colourless Green Ideas Sleep...

I missed a few weeks of blog updates because of a hectic schedule of a book release, my daughter’s birthday and submitting assignments...

This was the third of Woolf's published novels and an experiment in finding her own, modernist, style. In it she considers the difficulty...

This week we were learning about rhetoric and style. It’s a subject that fascinates me so I have done some wider reading, a summary of...

At this point we left drama and learned how to apply the techniques from stage play, radio play and film to pieces of fiction. Exercises...

Elements of Horror was released earlier this month, and I am honoured to have one of my stories “High Tide” in the collection. I am...

This week’s subject was film structure. We learned how films are broken down into acts, which can be broken down into scenes, which can...

This week’s subject was film making and scripts. It’s been a tough week for me. My elderly cat went missing for a day and a half. He’s...

This weekend through Cyber-Monday the following books are available for 99c. Some like Starblood, Psychonuat, and The Ballerina and the...

New London, 2067, and a diminished Britain struggles to preserve what remains after the Great Flood. Whether this planned city is a...

This week’s subject was radio drama. We studied a radio play – Smooth Apparatus and how sound effects might be weaponised in drama. The...

I'm currently working on a radio play based on my Vampire novella Basement Beauty. I don't know whether anything will come of it, but it...