Hello everyone. My short story Entrepreneur has been short listed in the Parracombe prize short story competition. My story will be included in their anthology and will be available for purchase from Monday 27th May onwards. If you want to buy a copy of the anthology I will be sharing a link on my social …
Happy World Book Day everyone! I love World Book Day and I’ve wanted to make an article about it for several years. I wanted to combine my love of literature with another passion of mine, conspiracies theories. I enjoy reading conspiracy theories and some, admittedly a very small number, turn out to be true. You …
Hello everyone, I’m delighted to say that my short story, The Signalman’s Son, has been published in this month’s version of The Wise Owl Online Magazine. A link to read my story can be found below. https://www.thewiseowl.art/jack-dowd My story is also available as a podcast, read by me. The recording can be found here: https://www.thewiseowl.art/podcasts …
Hello everyone, I hope you’re all well. I am pleased to announce that my short story, Recuperate, has been published in Hearth & Coffin Literacy Journal: Volume 3, Issue 4 – Burn. The story is available to read on the link below: https://www.hearthandcoffin.com/post/recuperate Recuperate is actually a rewrite of my first ever published short story. When I was …
I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with J.R.R.Tolkien. While I love the fantasy world he created and the impact it has had on the fantasy genre and the world as a whole… I’m sorry but I find him incredibly difficult to read. The Hobbit is fine but Lord of the Rings is a mammoth and …
Happy New Year! I normally spend the first of January waking up around nine, having leftovers for breakfast and then putting the Christmas decorations away. This normally takes about half a day, I spend the rest of the afternoon/evening watching a film of some kind. It’s probably around that time when this post is uploaded. …
Happy New Year’s Eve everyone. 2023 is drawing to a close. I hope you all plan on having a wonderful evening and seeing the new year in with a smile. I will be using this space to review my goals from the start of the year, seeing what I achieved, what I failed to and …
Hello everyone, This post is inspired by two things. The first is the fact that yesterday was my thirtieth birthday and I wanted to mark that milestone on this website. The second inspiration is an article in the Washington Post published in late October of this year about my favourite author Stephen King. In the …
Hello everyone, I’m happy to announced that my short story Melancholic has been published on the Dear Booze website. You can find my story on the hyperlink below: Melancholic (dearbooze.com) My story is inspired by two things. The first is an extract of a song my friend performed about looking up your ex friends and …
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) has arrived. I’ve been competing in NaNoWriMo for several years now but if you are unaware, the aim is to write fifty thousand words over the thirty days of November. This divides down to one thousand six hundred and sixty-six words a day or five hundred and fifty five words …