AI gone rogue. Part 2

The second part of my short story. If you haven’t seen the first part from last week you might want to read that first so it makes sense. I needed an excuse to escape from the house and get some fresh air, so decided to combine a quick trip to the supermarket with a coffee …

AI gone rogue. Part 1

If you use social media, you might have come across occasions where people have been banned for no apparent reason. This happened to a friend of mine recently, and was the inspiration for this two-part short story.  ‘You have violated our community standards and been placed under a two-week ban. During this time you will …

Character interview – Narrator ‘Spirit of Technology.’

Welcome back. This week’s interview is with the main female character from ‘Spirit of Technology.’ To prepare the questions I intended to ask, I briefly read the book again, and to my surprise realised she is never named. Admittedly it’s a fairly short book, and spoken in her voice, but I’m amazed reviewers never mentioned …

Aspects of authors- Rick Haynes

I’m delighted to welcome my first guest to the aspects series – Rick  Haynes,  whose specialist subject is medieval fantasy. Over to you, Rick. What World Do You Want To Create? It all seems pretty easy, doesn’t it? You have all these ideas in your head racing around and around like eager puppies, but what …

Birthdays, Unicorns and Rhunicorns.

I’m not sure how my fascination with unicorns began. I’ve never been a 'pretty in pink, girlie party-dress' type, and my interest began way before unicorns became trendy.  A few years ago I discovered they were descendants of the rhino, and thought how wonderful that a great, grey lumbering beast could be related to a …

Weird and Peculiar Tales- Here be dragons

By the time you read this, I shall hopefully be lazing on a beach somewhere, cocktail in hand and totally brain dead, so it seemed a good idea to schedule something in advance.  My fellow author and good friend, Paula reminded me it is the first birthday of our anthology of short stories so this …

Christmas decorations

It's been the usual hectic rush to prepare everything for the big day, but at the same time I've been working on two new book releases, proof reading for some other authors, oh, and panicking about writing this week's short story.  😀 Browsing through some old files I discovered this one, which reminded me what …

Alternative Christmas

I love Christmas but sometimes it can all be a bit much. Trying to fit in the normal day to day trials, clean the house, put up the decorations and provide enough food to feed a small army for the dozen or so people coming to dinner becomes overwhelming. Then there are the presents to …

‘Weird and Peculiar Tales,’ Remembering, and Laundry fairies.

It’s that time of year when ghosts walk, ghouls wander the earth and laundry fairies get up to mischief. Wait, that doesn’t sound quite right. All will be revealed, but first a very short story. Remembering. Even though I hadn’t visited the house for over fifty years, I found my way easily along the pitch-black path …

Mermaid’s day and ‘Weird and Peculiar Tales’ paperback.

I'm delighted to announce our latest book 'Weird and Peculiar Tales' is now available in paperback format. Thanks to all our American friends for the 4th July fireworks to help us celebrate. 😀  You can find it here: Weird and Peculiar Tales UK Weird and Peculiar Tales USA Staying in fantasy mode, I spent some …