New Short Story

Added on 05 May 2011

Last year I did a blog or two about novels that I'd written and then lost. They were, for the most part, rubbish of course, so they oughtn't to be considered in the same league as a lost Robert Louis Stevenson or a lost Thomas The Tank Engine. Even I, the writer of the lost novels, generally don't g...

Turmoil At Long Midnight as Shackleton Walks

Added on 03 May 2011

Confusion hangs over the offices of Long Midnight Publishing today as the international behemoth's freefall into oblivion continues at a pace that staggers even stock market veterans. Long standing Marketing Director, and the man credited with turning LMP into the third largest publishing company in...

I Never Saw The Cow Again

Added on 02 May 2011

I can walk today, after a fashion. I can't really use the old Danny Glover line 'I'm too old for this shit', as I'm only 46, and plenty of folk older than me run marathons and a damned sight more quickly 'n all. For example, yesterday I was overtaken by a wee round 55 year-old woman in the final 200...

Bloody Cling Film Napper Heads Into Trouble

Added on 29 April 2011

He was supposed to be the new face of Barney Thomson. He was supposed to be the face that would lead the marketing campaign that would lead the series of barbershop death junkie novels to become the most famous, widely-read and talked about crime series in the history of time and space. Instead, les...

A Bloody Head Wrapped In Cling Film

Added on 28 April 2011

Close followers of the sleepy world of Long Midnight Publishing will know how the book cover design works in these parts. (So this explanation is for those who aren't, you know, close followers.) I tell my Polish speaking friend roughly what I want from a cover; she tells my non-English speaking Pol...