Now that I can reveal exactly who and what Terry and I are working on “The Clockwork Occultist” for, we thought it was high time that we introduced the man himself.
So, without further ado …
Terry Cooper was born nearly 40 years ago in an ambulance in North London. He moves to Wales in 1980 and did whatever he could to get through his schooling alive.
He had a short but fruitful career in the 1990s as a member of the rap group, ‘Best Shot’, touring the UK with East 17.
Nowadays, he …

Accent UK have given me the green light to announce that their 2011 anthology will be entitled “Victoriana”.
I knew this some time back and it was at the front of my mind when I penned the short “The Clockwork Occultist”, which I am delighted to be able to let you know will be included in this anthology. Victoriana is a favourite theme/meme of mine, so I’m pretty chuffed to be the first out of the gate with something for the 2011 Accent book, which will no doubt continue to be …

Oh dear oh dear.
I have received some comment spam today that I found so amusingly clumsy that I have decided it deserves something more than my usual “hit the spam button in Wordpress and sigh” response.
Today, we have our inaugural member of the Planet of the Penguins Roll of Shame.
Congratulations www.seoclientprospectingrobot.com
The spam comment was attached to my article “How To Haiku” and ran as follows:
This might be a little off subject, but have you looked at seoclientprospectingrobot dot com? Just wondering if you have any reviews of it, I’m thinking …

Myself and Stu.Art, more commonly known as “Monkeys with Machineguns”, are booked to exhibit at this year’s Bristol Comic Expo.
This year we are exhibiting with a twist however, as all our hard work on The Magpye for Markosia has left us without a brand new issue of our eponymous horror anthology to debut at the show. With the release of the latest MWM being somewhat of a Bristol tradition, at least for Stu and I, were left somewhat stumped this year as to what exactly to do …
Thankfully, the answer …

I received the finished lettered artwork yesterday for “The Escape Artist”.
Quite simply, it looks fantastic!
Sadly I can’t preview much of the art here without blowing the story, but hopefully my gushing praise for Rick’s work and the small sample we can make available will convince you to seek this story out when it appears in a future issue of Murky Depths.
Rick and I are now talking about partnering up for some new projects in the future, so hopefully I will have the opportunity to wax lyrical about his artwork again …

I am very pleased to able to blognounce that Terry Cooper will be putting the images to the words of my new short “The Clockwork Occultist”.
Exactly where this short will be turning up is under wraps at the moment, but if you like time travel, vampires, nazis, steampunk contraptions and villians with clockwork legs, then it is safe to say that this is the story that will deliver for you!
Whilst Terry is working away on the artwork, he’s put together this rather nifty logo as a little teaser for the …

Had the first pencils yesterday from Gary for “The God Trap”.
The story, and our new friend Bamapana, our both looking great (or terrible, if you take my meaning) and the story is definitely taking shape.
“The God Trap” will be appearing in Insomnia’s “Choices” anthology later this year.

Watch out, trouble's about … call the WatchMEEENNNNN!
This Watchmen trailer is far better than that one with the Smashing Pumpkins soundtrack.

I’m a big fan of portable applications and quick-to-install development environments.
With the range of things that it is possible to do with Drupal, the Acquia Stack Installer aka DAMP is a big step towards a new breed of installable Drupal/Acquia based intranet applications.
Viva!