I wasn’t really aware of just how enduringly popular the Occult Detective is in literature and other art forms until recently. It was through fellow writer and aficionado of weird fiction and long dogs, John Linwood Grant, that I had my initiation into the genre. John, with Sam Gafford, edits a new publication that promises…
Category: Fantasy
A Study in Grey (Sherlock Holmes: The Science of Deduction Book 4) by John Linwood Grant – review
I probably approached this book in the worst possible way, in that I hadn’t read much by Arthur Conan Doyle, and even less in the way of Sherlock Holmes stories, nor had I read the first three in the Science of Deduction series. Nevertheless, when Mr. Linwood Grant offered me a copy in return for…
The Once And Future Arthur
It wasn’t a conscious decision that both my stories in the anthology A Seeming Glass were based on reworkings of Arthurian legend. Neither could it said to be entirely coincidental. When it comes to new visions of old stories, King Arthur and the ‘Matter of Britain’ has been at it longer than most. Almost everything…
Stealing the editor’s chair
My co-editor JA Ironside has already given a fascinating account of the process of editing the anthology A Seeming Glass on her blog here, so I shan’t go over ground she has so ably covered. That said, I thought it might be interesting to add my perspective on how this collection of stories came into…
A longlisting, and a new collection
A project I have been working on for some time with a group of very talented writers is nearing readiness, and the time has arrived where we can come out of the closet. A Seeming Glass – A collection of Reflected Tales, by the Random Writers, will soon be available. I think, even though I…
Air and Sea Stories 
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