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    • Friday, 10th July 2026

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      Greetings from the edge, I think the heat must have got to me. Either that, or at my age I have discovered that I’m a raver on the quiet. You see, I have been listening to a lot of EDM while I write lately. Not because I like it. I don’t particularly. But it is…

    • Monday, 22nd June 2026

      Greetings from the edge, Since I keep referring to my office as “The Broom Cupboard,” I thought I should finally show you the tiny creative engine room itself. This is where Rambles & Whimsy happens: books, screens, dice, plants, dragons, more tea than is reasonable, and a chair that has… seen things. It is not…

    • Friday, 19th June 2026

      Greetings from the edge, I have been keeping busy in flesh space.  Various bits and pieces have conspired to keep me away from my keyboard; however, I’m back now, and I have a plan. The fact that the entire plan is just ‘do more work’ is neither here nor there. As well as various broken…

    • Wednesday, 3rd June 2026

      I would like to say that I have been ever-so-busy writing; that I have a good 2,000 words of The Echo Man under my belt and a few articles ready to post. I could say that, but it would make me a big, fat, lying liar. Instead, I have spent a good chunk of the…

    • Building a Life in the Broom Cupboard

      Greetings from the edge, Things have been busy here in the broom cupboard. Between the blog, the short fiction, the articles, my computer repair work, the library, and trying to hammer my D&D setting into a professional-looking PDF, I have had very little time for anything else. So I have decided to, rather than just…

    • Saturday, 9th May 2026

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      I’ve taken a short hiatus from writing proper for the last ten days or so, but I’m pleased to report that the wheels are turning again, and I knocked out a treatment and plot outline for my new short story, Rare, last night. It’s about a chef at a vegetarian restaurant who gets bitten during…

    • Friday 17th April 2026

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      Greetings from the edge, I’ve been a busy bee. I now have about half of the Silence of the Lambs article written, and I’m still ploughing my way through On Writing. At this point, it feels less like a craft book and more like Stephen King is sitting on the other side of your desk,…

    • Thursday 16th April 2026

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      Greetings from the edge, Deep into On Writing right now. Don’t get me wrong, I’m thoroughly enjoying The Three-Body Problem, which insistently is not about the problems that arise from needing to dispose of three cadavers, and I’m also really enjoying the alien-eye view of human jingoism and bloodthirsty expansionism in The Word for World…

    • Saturday 11th April 2026

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      Greetings from the edge, I finished 10 Horror Movies That Get Scarier the More You Think About Them late last night, but then got distracted by the return of Artemis II, so I ended up posting the article this morning instead. It’s live right now, and you should absolutely check it out. I’ve now finished…

    • Friday 10th April 2026

      Greetings from the edge, I’ve been busy in the export business lately. By which I mean I have been exporting everything I’ve eaten or drunk with such enthusiasm that even Regan MacNeil would reach for the Pepto-Bismol. I have been blowing chunks, is what I’m saying. To put it bluntly, I couldn’t even keep tea…