Keeping up with my free short stories every month, this time around I went with a different style and dove into an epistolary style, where each part of the story is a short entry from the protagonist – Dr Harvey Bollard – as he details an excavation of something that shouldn’t exist. It may have been inspired by my recent obsession with The X-Files.
You can read the story as a free download from my Ko-fi.
If you hang around Twitter enough, you’ll see calls for pitches to comic anthologies quite a bit. One such anthology is Amongst the Stars, a sci-fi romance anthology. The selection for 2022 was announced a few days after the last newsletter. Check it out! Did you see it? I got in! Myself and James Killian are…
Before 2015, my only engagement in the Irish comic community was a fan of a few select small press comics – notably, The Wren from Buttonpress Comics, and just about anything Anthea West published; I’ve known her since 2007, and she was the only person I knew who made comics. As someone who’s constantly trying…
A little while ago, a woman gave out about blackout poetry (erasure poetry) on Twitter, and people got mad at her. I’ve since started making my own. Below was my first attempt, having only the barest familiarity with them and having never done one before. This weekend will see the launch of my first chapbook…
If you’ve been paying attention to my social media the last few weeks, you’ll seen mention of a wee little anthology I’m putting together through Limit Break Comics. Turning Roads is aiming to collect comic adaptations of Irish folklore and mythology stories, set in modern and future Ireland. The book will be going to Kickstarter later this…
Any creative act takes time. Novels happen to take a lot of time, even just to get a first draft. That’s fine. When you’ve done it a couple of times, you expect to spend a large portion of your available time sitting at a keyboard, working away. NaNoWriMo just happens to require that you condense…
The big news as far as publications is concerned is that I’ve had a short story accepted into Volume 3 of the Dark Side of Purity, a zine of poetry and comics that’ll be distributed digitally to the 400+ backers of the Kickstarter. My story is called The To-Do of Hoodoo, and deals with much darker…