This Blasted Life #5

Added on 08 December 2011

The fifth exciting instalment of This Blasted life is now available. Entitled The Slartibartfast Paradigm, it features a panel of experts discussing the very nature of creation. And, obviously, when I say a panel of experts I mean me and a bloke that I made up. Sometimes you’re watching a natu...

The Night Santa Got The Blues

Added on 06 December 2011

Every December I remember to dust off my Christmas story - THE NIGHT SANTA GOT THE BLUES - and put it up on this site, a piece of seasonal magic for the many millions of visitors. Every year when I do this I think, I really must be a bit more proactive with this, start looking at it earlier in the ...

Sometimes I'm Just A Miserable ****

Added on 05 December 2011

A weird thing happened on the website last week. And when I say "the website", I'm not talking like an old person when they say something like, "oh, can you check on the website" about absolutely anything, as if there's only the one website in existence containing all th...

This Blasted Life #4

Added on 01 December 2011

Today sees the release of the Blasted Heath digital edition of THE BARBER SURGEON'S HAIRSHIRT. The paperback has obviously been around for a while, and there's been a previous digital edition, but now it's been edited by Scottish crime fiction supremo Al Guthrie, and although he didn...

You Are Dead To Me, Darth

Added on 28 November 2011

They say that people have been crying at the John Lewis advert. While one must accept that today's society is shallow enough that sections of it would cry at a John Lewis advert, on this occasion I reckon that it's only shallow enough to warrant that people say that people have been crying ...