Spelling and the fear of new technology

I read an article in The Sydney Morning Herald today that talked about a poll conducted by Galaxy. They asked 400 people in Sydney and Melbourne aged over 16 to spell eight commonly mis-spelled words. The words in question were: embarrass accommodation accessory...

Editor Unleashed/Smashwords Flash Fiction 40 – I got in

First off, thanks to all of you that took the time to vote for me in the recent Editor Unleashed Flash Fiction 40 competition. I am very pleased to say that I won a place in the top 40. I didn’t win first prize, but out of 280 entries it’s incredibly...

“Crossfire” added to the Dark Shorts page

My short story “Crossfire”, which was recently published in The Oddville Press magazine, has been added to the Dark Shorts page here. Rather than reprint the story on my site like I usually do, I’ve made a direct link to the PDF file of the magazine...

Last chance to vote me into an anthology

You may remember that I entered a flash fiction piece in a competition organised by Editor Unleashed and Smashwords. I asked you to go and have a read and vote for me. Well, my story currently has 65 votes and a rating of 3.12 out of 5. That’s not a bad rating...

The power of blogging and social media

I often wonder just how much all my online effort pays off. On the one hand, I see the hits this site gets (over 5,000 a month) and, even though people seem reluctant to comment much, it’s a very well-traversed corner of the interwebz. And I like it here, so I...