Really happy to see my alien spy short story SECRET INGREDIENTS reappear in the new issue of Shoreline of Infinity! First published in Issue 15 (2019), it was chosen to appear in this special collection for the launch of new Scottish sci-fi webzine SF Caledonia. Created by Shoreline’s founder and former editor, Noel Chidwick, SF … More Read SECRET INGREDIENTS (again!) in Shoreline of Infinity 35
Another year nearly over and once again it is the time for LISTS! First, a quick bit of reflection: I had only one short story published this year, Great Nothing in Shoreline of Infinity 27 & 29, but it’s a story I’m really proud of and it’s in a magazine I love, so it’s a … More Faves of 2021
Hey man, you haven’t written anything on here in a while, are you gonna do that thing where you start off a post by talking about how or why you haven’t blogged in ages? No. (Though actually yes.) Anyway, this post is for my pal, Andrew, who lives in Vietnam. Throughout most of 2020 when … More Scottish Book Recs for My Pal in Vietnam
It’s over twenty degrees in Scotland. Go to the park. Take a book. One of these: The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong (2020, Picador) I’m gonna be straight here from the off: I was a 00’s-era grunger in high school. Band hoodies, ludicrously baggy jeans, moon boot skate shoes, questionable taste for rap metal, the … More Reading Roundup May 2021
Last Thursday I boarded the train to Edinburgh to take part in Shoreline of Infinity’s Event Horizon. And sure, every time I say the words ‘Event Horizon’ it conjures a horrifying image of eyeless Sam Neill from the nineties film of the same name (“Where we’re going… we don’t need eyes to see!”) but I … More Infinite Space, Infinite Terror… and a raffle
It’s almost here: Event Horizon – not the film with Sam Neill (still terrifying) but the monthly reading night in Edinburgh hosted by Shoreline of Infinity. Usually sci-fi based, tomorrow’s event will be taken over by fantasy webzine Aether/Ichor. I’ll be reading there myself along with some fantastic authors recently published by A/I: Ely Percy, … More Event Horizon
I’m really excited/slightly nervous to be reading at next month’s Event Horizon in Edinburgh! Hosted by Edinburgh’s British Fantasy Society Award-winning magazine, Shoreline of Infinity, Event Horizon is a free monthly evening of sci-fi spoken word and music (and there’s a raffle, of course). 9th May will be a fantasy special takeover by fellow Edinburgh … More Event Horizon 9th May 2019
It’s here! The second issue of the revamped Aether/Ichor has hit the online shelf. Scary isn’t just for Hallowe’en. The theme of the Equinox issue is ‘Spooky in Spring’ and in that vein we have vampires, zombies, and ghosts aplenty. Ed Ahern brews up a tale of witches and reality TV in ‘The Samhain Show’, … More Aether/Ichor Issue 2 out now
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