Category: Site update

    • 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…

    • Tuesday 7th April 2026

      Greetings from the edge, I had to be an actual adult today and focus on the computer repair side of my life. I’m currently in talks with OSAM Websites about taking over the running of Yell from my site, Rob the computer guy. Essentially, it means I regain ownership of the business site and, in…

    • Sunday 5th April 2026

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      Greetings from the edge, Things are moving at a decent pace on my work-in-progress article, currently titled 11 Horror Movies That Get Scarier the More You Think About Them. It’s all about films that are unsettling on the surface, but become far more horrifying later on, when you’re brushing your teeth before bed and the…

    • Friday 3rd April 2026

      Greetings from the edge, Keeping busy here in the broom cupboard. I’ve already got a new article in the works, tentatively about horror films that get scarier the more you think about them. I’ve decided to go for eleven entries this time. I may frame it as “ten and a bonus track” or something along…