Trick Or Tweet 2021

I think it was Gabino Iglesias who came up with this one (please correct me in the comments if I’m wrong there). The idea was to fill Twitter with little bite-sized horror yarns, disturbing tales that fit in a single tweet. Everyone posted them under the...

Beechworth Asylum Writers’ Retreat

I just spent three days, and two nights, in a haunted abandoned asylum. It was fantastic fun! Geoff and Dawn run Asylum Ghost Tours from the amazing Bijou Theatre at Beechworth Asylum in country Victoria. They also organise writing retreats there where a bunch of...

Ten Rules of Writing

People are always posting rules of writing and it annoys me. I have opinions about many things, and this is definitely one of them. If you’ve read my blog for any length of time, you’ll know I think writing rules are generally a load of bollocks. They...

Earthsea revisited and visited anew

I mentioned a while back that I was embarking on a reread of Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea novels. It was, in fact, only a part reread. There are six Earthsea books, that Le Guin likes to refer to as either the Earthsea Cycle, or the two Earthsea trilogies. Until...