Blips and bytes are fine, but print is good too. So I'm pleased that one of my stories is to go in The Last Man Anthology — ‘a celebration of catastrophic fiction in honour of Mary Shelley, the mother of science fiction’....

Guess what, I have a story in CellStory  – called ‘Bedtime Stories’. You can read CellStory on any 3G mobile, and this also means ‘Bedtime Stories’ is iPad-optimized. Which is weird, because we’ve yet to see these mythical beasts on sale in London, so it all feels very ahead of the curve. Oh. A link in...

I’ve been asked to help introduce a few writers reading in Bloomsbury next Saturday (10 April). It is a celebration of the Willesden  Herald Short Story Prize. Four of the shortlisted writers will be reading, and these will include Nuala Ni Chonchuir, Wena Poon, Henrietta Rose-Innes and one other tbc. It’s a weenchy little museum...

Although I did a reading for this How-to book on the short story a month or two back, I’ve worried that I might not be doing enough to promote it, given I’m one of the  contributing authors. Very pleasing, then, to see the book won a thumbs-up from international literary journal The Stinging Fly, who...

Find it now while it’s still on the front page of  the strange and wonderful science journal LabLit . Lablit is edited by scientist and science writer Dr. Jennifer Rohn, and is “a forum for all topics related to the culture of science in fiction and fact.” If by the time you visit, my story has dropped...

I’ve been asked to give a presentation alongside other writers who contributed to Short Circuit, the how-to guide to the art of the short story. It’s all happening next Tuesday evening (15 December) at Cafe Yumchaa, 45 Berwick Street, London W1. I know it’s bang in the middle of the party season, but if you’ve been inundated...

To win one of 5 copies of "Short Circuit: a guide to the art of the short story", you'll have to be fast - so I'm keeping this brief... Try your luck...

At the day job, I use a grandiose and self-important web content management system, one that lends itself airs and post-justifies big bills to clients by declaiming that it is an “enterprise solution”. Does it have a spellcheck? No. Does it have a wordcount per field? No. Does it think that users need their lives made easier? Apparently...

I went over to west West London (White City tube) to record the sound for this, and it was used on London buses sometime this year. The recording is an extract from the story  ’Dead Angels’, published in Down the Angel and up Holloway.  Someone at BBC provided the video images, which are pretty authentically Angel-like. It...

‘Dancing with Mr Darcy’ editors Sarah Waters and Lynsey Ashford were there to celebrate and endorse the book. And the authors gathered for a get-together, and to hear a reading of her winning story by Victoria (pictured here in the centre). I caught up with fellow London author Andrea Watsmore…and a few of us brought Jane to...

Lane Ashfeldt interviewed by the literary website 'Jane Austen in Vermont' about her story in 'Dancing With Mr...

A drabble is a great length for writers to work to, and no, it is nothing to do with the author Margaret Drabble, whose work tends to arrive in far more substantial...

I'm reading along with several contributors to the heftily titled anthology What We Were Thinking Just Before The End...