Fantasy Magazine Issue 98

Posted: September 24, 2025 in Shameless self-promotion
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My flash fiction story “Knife Plus” is in Issue 98 of Fantasy Magazine, and will be published online on the magazine’s website on 24 October 2025. This story was inspired by a talk from the Buddhist teacher James Low. I should emphasize that the connection between the inspiration and the end product is extremely loose. As in, “I dropped the leash, the dog ran away, and now it’s implicated in several murders in another country” loose.

Anyway, as always, I’m pleased and proud to announce this. Buy the magazine if you can, check out the free content online if you can’t.

Podcast: Mr Krispy

Posted: March 26, 2025 in Shameless self-promotion
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My short story “Mr Krispy” is now live on Creepy Podcast. The titular character is a mute circus performer whose life is destroyed by a catastrophic event. His subsequent actions, the product of a shattered mind, turn him into an infamous legend.

Narrator Jimmy Ferrer does an outstanding job at articulating Mr Krispy’s signature “k…k…k…”. I encourage horror fiction podcast fans to lend an ear to the other stories on the site.

To listen to “Mr Krispy”, click here.

Good news times two

Posted: December 1, 2024 in Shameless self-promotion
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This week has seen two positive things happening in my writing world.

Number One – Flame Tree Publishing released Medusa: New & Ancient Greek Tales, an anthology in their Myths, Gods & Immortals series. It contains my story In The Blood, in which Medusa navigates the modern world, trying to fulfill her ancient role as a protector and to live as a supernatural being while staying inconspicuous.

My contributor copies are objects of beauty – a deluxe hardback edition, with gold embossing front and back and red foil page edges. In all my years of receiving contributor copies, I don’t think I’ve ever done the “author poses holding her book” thing, but this one made me at least give it a go (then I didn’t like my face, so I cropped it and cut my head off, which is very apt given the subject matter).

And Number Two – Ellen Datlow has published her Best Horror of the Year recommendations for 2023, and my story Her Ghosts, published in the anthology Remains To Be Told, made it on. (If you have no idea who Ellen Datlow is or why it’s notable news for me, this throwback from the first time I made it onto her list might help.)

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