coming soon: more radio & a novel
sneak preview: live readings
Something different… In a week’s time I’m back on Nigel Staley’s programme Under The Table on Brighton & Hove Community Radio, Thursday 27th June, 6 – 7pm. (Not bad going, considering the last occasion was only a couple of months back.) This time I’ll be performing eight spoken word pieces, with ambient interludes from Susumu Yokota’s album The Boy and the Tree. The pieces will include three extracts from this novel, Leland Poet – which I’m re-releasing onto Kindle the following week, on Monday 1st July.
It’s quite a step away from strumming guitar, but there’s many hooks to grip you with.
June 20, 2013 | Categories: Books, Music, News, Radio, Stories | Tags: airplay, alternative musician, Amazon, ambient, anthology, BHCR, Gift of Fear, internet radio, Kindle, Leland Poet, novel, performance, short stories, spoken word, Susumu Yokota, The Boy and the Tree, Under The Table, www.bhcr.org.uk | Comments Off on coming soon: more radio & a novel
Another story published by Ether Books (and it’s FILTH)
Internet short fiction publisher Ether Books has just published another story of mine as a free download. This one’s called Lucky Bleeder, and was performed in London by White Rabbit at one of their Are You Sitting Comfortably events in 2012. It’s about sex – of an unpleasantly strenuous kind – and it’s 666 words long, which was pure coincidence.
It can also be found in my recent Kindle compilation, The Gift of Fear.
The Ether app can be downloaded from iTunes here.
January 9, 2013 | Categories: Freebie, News, Stories | Tags: Amazon, Are You Sitting Comfortably?, Ether Books, fiction download, free, Gift of Fear, internet publishing, iTunes, Kindle, sci-fi/horror, short story, White Rabbit, www.etherbooks.com | Comments Off on Another story published by Ether Books (and it’s FILTH)
GIFT OF FEAR: PUBLISHED TODAY
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00AMSU73U
20 tales of terror, the supernatural and the super-real: a richly-varied journey from the horrors of the human mind to the depths of space.
You’ll meet people in these pages whose fearful struggles will grab you hard, and some you’ll wish you’d never met at all… But either way, you won’t forget them.
Evil beings, experiments gone hideously wrong, psychopaths, erotic maniacs in league with the outer gods, sinister corporations and ghosts from the future. If you get nightmares, just remember: it’s THE GIFT OF FEAR.
…available on Kindle – not for free, but very reasonably priced (here’s a little background info, if you’re interested).
A lucky 13 days from Xmas, too.
December 11, 2012 | Categories: Books, Films, Freebie, News, Stories | Tags: 12th Dec 2012, Amazon, anthology, eBooks, freevid, genre fiction, Gift of Fear, horror, Kindle, short stories, short story, supernatural, writing, Xmas, Youtube | Comments Off on GIFT OF FEAR: PUBLISHED TODAY
FILTHY: Are You Sitting Comfortably? Fri 12th Oct (“Lucky Bleeder”)
Those lovely people at White Rabbit are holding another evening of storytelling and theatre in London: Are You Sitting Comfortably? on Fri 12th Oct at Toynbee Studios. The theme is FILTHY, and one of my stories will be featured (“Lucky Bleeder”, which appears in forthcoming compilation Gift of Fear).
Here’s the basic info…
Fri 12th October 7:30
Arts Bar & Café, Toynbee Studios
28 Commercial Street
London E1 6AB
Tickets £8
Box office 020 7650 2350 or book online at www.artsadmin.co.uk
according to the reviewers, they’re…
“fantastic alternative fun” Time Out
“storytelling made supremely sexy” Latest 7 ****
“comic.. haunting.. an enchanted night” Total Theatre ****
…Having seen them at the Basement in Brighton, I can vouch for all of that.
October 7, 2012 | Categories: News, Stories | Tags: Are You Sitting Comfortably?, Bernadette Russell, Filthy, Gareth Brierly, Gift of Fear, London, performance, sci-fi/horror, short stories, Toynbee Studios, White Rabbit, writing | Comments Off on FILTHY: Are You Sitting Comfortably? Fri 12th Oct (“Lucky Bleeder”)