I began working as a creator at and organiser of events and conventions in 2016. I’ve tabled at some of Ireland’s biggest events, at Thought Bubble and MCM London, at WorldCon in Dublin, and at smaller conventions all over the country of Ireland. I ran a market in Dublin for two and a half years,…
Michael Lebbon had seen a few dead bodies in his lifetime, but on a cold January morning in London he found himself staring a corpse with the sort of bewilderment a child experiences when confronted with something new and alien. The body looked frozen, though Michael wasn’t sure it was that cold, and supposed rigor…
After a new hiccups along the way, I can finally say that The Case of Michael Lebbon is now complete and available to read now. The book is exclusive to subscribers of this newsletter, completely for free. You can find it in the downloads folder you’ll have been linked to when you first signed up if you’re a…
Last week, I escaped the Big Smoke to go West. I stayed with a few friends in Carna, County Galway, in a small house by the sea. The ocean lapped gently on the rocks, the sand threatened to go everywhere, the sun burned through the sky, and we wrote. This is our third annual retreat,…
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…
After a wee hiatus, Project Dark House is back in action with another freebie posted on IrishComics.ie. I finally got to work with a bucket-list artist, Lane Lloyd, on a creepy, genre-diving story called The Faces of the Many. You can read it on IrishComics.ie for free!
Entirely inspired by the fact that Fractured Realms is currently funding on Kickstarter, I wrote a short story about a god – the last god – encountering the last humans on Earth, following a sort of apocalypse scenario. You can read the story as a free download from my Ko-fi.
Following on from the publication of The Fiend in the Forest earlier this year, I worked with Gavin Fullerton to produce the second story from Project Dark House. Dead Ringer is an 8-page story about identity and faceless violence. With a monster, for good measure. The comic can be read for free on IrishComics.ie. Reader…
Project Dark House just keeps on giving. After seeing her work in Turning Roads, I reached out to Mari Rolin to see if she’d be up for a creepy little nightmare called Child’s Play. The comic can be read for free on IrishComics.ie.
Short stories are always a fun way to force myself back into writing. To get the ball rolling on 2023, I wrote Spare a Thought, a story with a telepathic virus of sorts set in a small Irish town with too much to say. You can read the story as a free download from my…