While Tales From the Computerbank has been a fun thing to do, I've been very remiss with my blogging of late. So... in an attempt to...

I've just found out, via the BBC, that the British horror/ dark fantasy author James Herbert has passed away at the age of 69. In...

My blogging hasn't been what it was, I admit. But I do have a little bit of news to post this week. My short story 'Behold' ha...

My short story Bones Heal is now up at Swords and Sorcery and you can find it at http://www.swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/story-2.html . A...

After a fairly thin year, in publishing terms, I finally have a couple of bits of good news to impart. My short story “Bones Heal” wi...

One of the giants of science fiction and fantasy, Ray Bradbury has passed away at the age of 91. Author of, among many others, The Martian...

I've been doing a lot of outlining recently. There, I've said it, and I'm glad I said it. Anybody who's been reading previou...

Last year, whilst suffering one of my periodic bouts of writer's block, I made an attempt to write my way out of it, vowing to write a t...

Since I have decided that February is my own personal sword and sorcery month (as opposed to any other time of the year when I'm reading...

News from the British Fantasy Society that the British author Samuel Youd, who wrote under the pen-name of John Christopher, has died. Best ...

It's amazing how easily things can get derailed. It was my fullest intention to start reading Lin Carter's The Wizard of Lemuria - ...

The actor Bill Hinzman - best known as the first zombie seen in George Romero's Night of the Living Dead - has passed away at the a...

I'm going back to my roots, reading wise, this month. In practical terms this means reading a heapin' helpin' of sword and sorce...

Some interesting news from the UK publisher Angry Robot Following a successful Open Door period in 2011 (we signed 3 debut authors from it!)...

Some news from the BBC reporting that the Scottish born actor Nicol Williamson passed away last month. Regarded by many as one of the finest...