Kim Deal concert

Kim Deal, who seemed to be having so much fun, Wolverhampton June 2025

Am sitting outside the office, why is it so… so… pleasant? Don’t make me go in there! I want to stay! Don’t make me!

A weyr full!

Wyldblood #17 Finally pulled my finger out to review the latest Wyldblood, which is, as ever, a mixture of strange and interesting stories.    

Alan reviews Wyldblood 16 @wyldblood.bsky.social and asks why you're not subscribing to this excellent publication! Standout story this time from
@robgillham.bsky.social but they're all great!

The Best of All Possible Planets Hilarious space opera comedy for the fans of Futurama and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Cozy science fiction humor, and corgis!

We're live and the campaign is taking off faster than a space corgi!

Listen to LEWIS BLACK read from the book here:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufo...

While I've been busy writing a novella set in my fictional seaside town of Seaforth, Alan kept the Supernova burning and here reviews a horror edition of Mythaxis - do check it out, a free to read zine full of quality fiction @mythaxis.bsky.social

A cyberpunk cityscape in shades of blue, pink, and grey with the text 'Trans in the Machine: Chronicling the New Cyberpunk Canon. Insight // Analysis // Experience From Trans+ Community'

Trans in the Machine: Chronicling the new Cyberpunk Canon is now live!

The crowdfund runs all month.

Accessible pricing and a portion of funds go to good causes.

Let’s make this happen together!

🔗 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Fellow writers! I can’t make it to Halifax this May but maybe you can?

I would share a picture of him except he's.... in the other room, obviously.

I have flu and the cat refuses to give me cuddles... He views the enforced distancing from my partner as a clear sign of the end times and he's making it clear who he's moving in with....

I knew that @rickandwrite.bsky.social and @tinybookcase.bsky.social would be a match made in heaven when in introduced them to each other at World Fantasy in Brighton! Give this a listen people!

Read "Bone and Acid and Rushing Waves," from Addison Smith / @addi.social: Nova carries her captain’s head into battle. Read for free in Bullet Points: zurl.co/gBV5V

What do you mean you don't have an ebook of Last Dragoners, get it now from the Subterranean site!

It's true, I'm busy talking puffins with the corpse-dredger, the murderer, and PC Beak in Seaforth. But I did take the time to read this issue of Parsec and it's fabulous, as Alan says in his review. Why aren't you subscribing to Parsec? pspublishing.co.uk/parsec-79-c....

A wonderful read, and a beautifully presented book too!

Filling my current story with em-dashes (or en-dashes, I'm entirely unsure at this point) because that's the way the prose wants to be. If it was good enough for Sterne in Tristram Shandy (subject of my long abandoned attempt to become a Dr) then it's good enough for me!

Bystanding (2018)

First published at Factor Four magazine 2018 Dave sits on the roof of the old Ford out by the farm gate with a beer. It hasn’t been a working farm for nearly a decade, but the yard and outbuildings were why he bought the place, and they’re filled with the broken-down vehicles he…

Shoreline of Infinity #39 (Summer 2025) Omniscient computers, ghosts in machines, and cellular communication all crop up in this edition of Shoreline, and there seems to be a loose theme of lives that take place within non-corporeal and hidden states.  Alan reviews the latest Shoreline of Infinity

Alan reviews the latest edition of the excellent @shoreinf.bsky.social‬ - Omniscient computers, ghosts in machines, and cellular communication all crop up in this edition of Shoreline, and there seems to be a loose theme of lives that take place within non-corporeal and hidden states.

Random literary ramble post about how an idea can travel. In Gene Wolfe's Book of the Short Sun (2000) we meet the inhumi of Green, shapeshifting aliens that take on the characteristics of their prey in order to impersonate them and get close enough to feed...

Ultan's Library a web resource for the study of Gene Wolfe

If you ever want to write this up we’d publish it at Ultan’s library! (Ultan.org.uk, largely dormant because of *life*)

Andrew’s story is brilliant! @deadinkbooks.bsky.social

PodCastle Disability Pride and Magic

PodCastle is very proud to join in celebrating Disability Pride Month with Disability Pride & Magic: a month of fantastic stories centering disabled characters and experiences.

See announcement on our website: podcastle.org/2025/06/30/d...

Issue 42 of Mythaxis Magazine is out now!
mythaxis.co.uk/issue-42/

Six new stories in text and audio formats, and reviews too!

Many thanks to @SeanMacKendrick.bsky.social, Cheryl Ntumy, Anna Ziegelhof, Travis Ezell, Charlie Winter, Josh Pearce, @faceyouhate.bsky.social, and Micah Hyatt on voice!

Inundated (2015)  Yuri woke up to the sound of waves breaking at the end of the street, and knew that the undines had breached the final defences. Even his house, one of the furthest from the harbour, would be theirs once again, like the rest of the city. He had slept in the upper bedroom and now looked out into the morning, surveying the city.

Republishing an old story as I rebuild my website - this is "Inundated" a fantasy which is my Mum's favourite. It was also a Far Fetched Fable podcast. It was sold to Ecotones - an original small press anthology - and it was my first sale.

While avoiding writing more of the puffin story, I thought I'd revisit an old draft of a near future short that I really liked. Oh. Nope! I don't think that's fixable! What about this story about aliens and sandwiches....

The puffins will have their revenge....