My story The Arbitrator has sold to Dred. It will be published online in autumn 2008.

My story Raising Archie has been podcast in mp3 audio format at www.dunesteef.com. You can play it in your browser or download it here.

James has a friend who acquired a large egg via an internet auction site. Now something has hatched. But is his friend putting him on or did this thing really emerge from the egg?

My story Raising Archie has sold again, this time to the forthcoming Dunesteef podcast. It will be available as an mp3 later this summer.

My story The Devil’s Fauna is now available in Touching the Monkey: The Best of www.tqrstories.com. You can order it here.

For three years tqrstories.com has worked to bring its investors fiction that touches the monkey. Inextricable as the sound of one hand clapping, yet as simple as crossing your fingers, Touching the Monkey is impossible to conceptualize, before you read it, but once you do, you’ll just know.

My story The Vendetta is out now in Strange Stories of Sand and Sea, published by Fine Tooth Press and available on Amazon.

Would you board a boat called the Vendetta, captained by a silver-eyed man named Mycaelis L’Angel?

I’m pleased to announce the collection of my novelettes and novellas, Fourtold, is out now in hardcover from Baysgarth Publications, priced £17.99. It will be available from Amazon in due course. Garry Kilworth wrote a glowing foreword while Stephen Player supplied the striking

cover art.

Kasper reluctantly lowered himself to the floor, foisting the suitcase before him like a shield. He tried not to stare at the man’s hairless body, which was the coppery red of sun-dried tomatoes and glistened with aromatic oils. Kasper could see that he was being ignored in favour of a chessboard that lay between them. He hated chess. Although not as much as he hated sitting opposite a man who was lying fully expo

sed, propped on one elbow and flaunting a penis large enough to merit its own cushion. He was intimidated and more than a little humiliated by the sight.

(From ‘The Reconstruction of Kasper Clark’)

My story Sacred Skin has just sold for the fourth time, this time to Glutonlump’s Chilling Tales magazine. It will feature in issue 2, scheduled for April 2008.

My story Like Cat and Dog has sold to Graveside Tales for a forthcoming anthology called The Beast Within. It is scheduled for release May/June 2008.

My story The Migrant is now online at TQR.

“On the 18th of December, 1918, a young Austrian by the name of Adolf Hitler disembarked from a train in Munich. Snow was falling from darkling skies, curling like ashes in bitter wintry draughts. It coated the stark framework of the steam sheds, glistened like sweat on the engine’s black iron flanks.”

My story The Migrant has sold to TQR. It is scheduled to go online January 2008.