Unconscious plagarism?

I just found out the name for my main character (Kotatsu) in my last novel (Snows of Mount Shizen) is in fact the word for a Japanese table with a heater under it.
Damn.
That’ll learn me to choose character names while watching My Neighbours The Yamadas.

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What to do till the next scene develops

I came home from work today with about ten litres of whipping cream that’s about to go bad. I asked to take it, much to the bafflement of my boss and co-workers, and thought I’d make ice cream. Unfortunately, my freezer is so full from Christmas that there’s not a hope in hell [...]

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The foot delivered an unending holocaust of pain as it rocketed into Zamboni’s crotch.

Once a year, or whenever I remember, I go and check out the winners of the Bulwer Lytton Competition. For those of you not familiar with the competition, the object is to write the worst first sentence to open a novel. Some of my early first lines could certainly have placed in the [...]

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Misc.

I seem to have murdered my ipod (which is preciousss to usss because it’s the last generation to run Rockbox and I want to mod it bad).   I’m not quite sure when it happened but I noticed on my run this morning that the screen has gone all wonky and blotchy.  Maybe from sweat [...]

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Resolution Time

OK, so I was going to take a week away from the blog. My plan was to stop being so glued to the computer and spend more time reading text that doesn’t take time to load, but the fact is I’m a blog addict and all the time I haven’t been updating my active [...]

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This is

likely to be the final post of the year.
I’m done work for the next little while, have a stack of books to read, a novel to avoid editing and an adorable hedgehog named Amelia to babysit.  That means I’m off for Winterval and I shall not be posting for a little while.  Hope everyone enjoys [...]

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Hired

Well I took the position I was offered as a member of the Bewildering Stories Review Board. I’m really rather chuffed that they offered it to me. And I figure any chance to improve my reading\writing skills is one I should take.
They were even kind enough to accept my caveat:  If my writing [...]

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Random Fiction Selection

Feeling wild and crazy tonight so I thought I’d post some previously published fiction. Antiseptic House was first published in Bewildering Stories in 2005 and reprinted in the BWS First Anthology in 2006.
 
 
The Antiseptic House
This morning, when I went out onto the balcony with my coffee, I found a dead bird. It must [...]

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Bad audience, great show

Just came from a great Winter Solstice belly dance show. The show was spectacular but I was stuck beside the single rudest human being in the universe.  Some pictures for y’all:

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Hmmm…

I’ve recently been offered a position on a review board of a magazine. The position is voluntary and it means a fair bit of extra work that will cut into fairly limited writing time.  Still, I expect to learn a lot if I do take the job, and I can chose to opt out [...]

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