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I am suffering from intense festive overkill, much more of this and I’m liable to start slaughtering elves.

I’m currently smoothing down the edges of a Christmas anthology book for KIC sourced from the best competition entrants and contracted writers.

I opened my mouth, I made the suggestion. I am idiot made flesh.

It’ll be with you in a couple of weeks and I shall expect mince pies and herculean flagons of sherry, no carrots please, Rudolph can do his own damn shopping.

After that I intend to lock myself in a dark office, laced with fags and laudanum and only emerge when I have a bunch of shiny new creative things. The Organization goes well, Daddy’s proud, but there must and shall be other work.

On 6^th January I shall be one year older, used underwear and cash to the usual address.

Bunch ‘O work for the Keep It Coming Print Magazine:

I’ll be doing two regular features -

1. A humorous ‘opinion’ column along the rough lines of the anorakism features here. So as not to confuse the dear Americans it’s been retitled ‘Get A Life’ referencing Bill (The Girth) Shatner’s spectacularly misplaced announcement at a Star Trek convention a few years ago, clearly forgetting precisely who it was that kept him up to his bulging belly in Hookers and Gin.
2. A ‘forgotten heroes’ kind of thing where I do a feature on a particularly inflential area of creativity that has been glossed over or forgotten. First issue is on the subject of the Parisien Théâtre Du Grand Guignol. Something of a pet subject, the sixty five year history of this perverse theatre, plying its works of extreme theatrical horror within a deconsecrated chapel in the Red Light district of Montmartre, has always fascinated me. Subscribers to The Organization will see the place turn up ther before too long…

William Hope Hodgeson will follow in the second issue…

‘Mothers Boy’ will most likely appear in Issue #4 of Horror Express (published in about six months so don’t hold your breath just yet!). Artwork’s been done, Marc Shemmans (Editor) is pleased so no future embarrassment there then.

Over the next couple of weeks expect a slew of page updates here on the site, I’ve been pitifully lax since going online and am determined to get it done!

I want to get a few issues ahead on the serial, work on an upcoming short story submission and, believe it or not, I’m one of the judges on KIC’s Christmas Short Story Competition so there’s a few festive words to plow through for that; but…

…eventually, I’ll get ’round to this Digital Dump.

That’s it, move along there’s nothing to be seen here!