My Publications

In Progress:

I'm currently working on a guide book for the island of La Palma, where I live, and a thriller, set in the island's observatory. Apart from that I mostly write short stories. It makes a nice change of pace.

En Español:

Relatos Cortos en Español: ¡NUEVO! 11 de noviembre de 2007

Awards
Honorable Mention in On The Premises mini-contest #5 with The Kitchen .
First Place in On The Premises" mini-contest #1 with Shopping Lists.
Equal First Place in the "Short not Sweet" contest at rspublishing.com.au.
Honourable Mention in 2007 Pearl's Writing Group Contest.
National Novel Writing Month Winner, 2004
Quarter Finalist in Writers of the Future, June 2000 with "Breathing Space".

Publications:

Current:
"Screamcatcher": Untied Shoelaces of the Mind
"Thrice upon a Time": December 2009 Issue of Afterburn SF.
"Scream Quietly": Robert Blevin's column at Newsvine
"Loathsome Alyce": February 2010 issue of Wily Writers

Pending:
"The Circle Line" will appear in the next issue of Untied Shoelaces of the Mind
"The Dodo Dragon" will be in the forthcoming anthology, "The War of the Worlds: Front lines" from Northern Frights Publishing.

Fiction sales:
"Designer Genes": April/May 2009 Issue of AlienSkin Magazine.
"Zuggy Zu and the Humans": Issue 4 of Escape Velocity
"The Mummy's Curse": April 2009 issue of Flash Fiction Online
"Unreal Estate ": Electric Velocipede Some stories from the issue are available free online.
"The Sock Drawer": online at Reflection's Edge
"What's a Few tentacles Between friends ": Cross-genre Cthulu, an anthology from Permuted Press
"The Whole Kitten Caboodle ": in A Cup of Comfort for Cat Lovers published in July 2008
"Infant Colic": online at Cosmos Magazine
"The Dodo Dragon": Issue 3 of Escape Velocity You can buy the issue at here.
"The Appliance of Science": Issue 2 of Escape Velocity You can buy the issue at Lulu
"Scream Quietly": Issue 1 of Escape Velocity You can buy the issue at Lulu
"Listas de Compra": Issue 2 of Ruido the dead tree version of the new cultural magazine for La Palma.
"If at First You Don't Succeed...": R. S. Publishing The e-book Store.
" Titch" in Issue 4.5 (Christmas 2006) of FARthing This is the Christmas card with drabbles sent to subscribers.
"The Dodo Dragon": in the Greek magazine Ennea (Eleftherotypia) June 2006
"Breathing Space":Nowa Fantastyka (A Polish magazine) December 2005
"The Dodo Dragon": in Adbusters September 2005
"A Decent Woman": Yours, August 17th, 2005
"Scream Quietly": Premier issue of FARthing August 3rd, 2005 (And here's a review in Interzone)
"Caught in the Oort": Alien Skin, June/July 2005
"Conan the Librarian": Alien Skin, June/July 2004.
"The Breath of the Stars": Malefica; June 2002
"Between a Rock and a Hard Place": Dragonlaugh; April 2002
"Lazy Cow" also in Chat. March 2002
"Breathing Space": in Oceans of the Mind January 2002 (And here's a review in Tangent)
"Destroying Angel": Jotter's Pad; October 2001
"The Battle of the Bulge": Planet Relish; August 2001
"Dream On": UK women's magazine Chat (circulation 500,000); May 2000
"Oh Baby!": Planet Relish, 1999;
"Zuggyzu and the Humans": Peridot Books;
"Repentance": Temple of Luna;
"The Dodo Dragon": Jackhammer;

Verse:
"Jason McFee": Sapphire Sunday;
"Motherlove": Sapphire Sunday;
"Poetry is an OCD": Inkblot;
"Clean Limerick": Planet Relish;
"Dear Children's Editor": Inkblot;
"Comma-nication": Young at Heart ;
"The Perfect Word": Writer Online.

Non-fiction:
"The Price of Ignorance";: Jackhammer e-zine and Best of Jackhammer Anthology;
"A Better Class of Drunks": Kafenio (voted 3rd in the 2000 Preditors and Editors poll of Best non fiction of the year. And look who's 17th!)
" Why not These Two? ": Heroic Stories Published 2003. This is a FREE email magazine of true stories about ordinary people doing nice things for each other. I find it a great antidote to the evening news.

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