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It’s in print! My quirky story, The Bio-Geometry of Socialisation is in the latest issue of Event Magazine 41-3. You can find a copy at Canadian Indy booksellers or order it online directly from Event Magazine.

On the website you can find poems, stories and novel excerpts. You can also download free copies of previously published stories. If you’d like your free copy, it’s easy. Just visit any one of the stories on this page and click the Download Button. Post a small shout-out Tweet or a Facebook comment and you’ll be reading in no time flat. Keep watching this space for more announcements, excerpts and free stuff.

 



Quotes I Love

  • When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.  
    Erasmus,
  • When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it -- or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.  
    Dodie Smith,
  • Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.
    W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage,
  • A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
    Edward P Morgan,
  • ‘Literature is my subject.’
    ‘Is it? Is that what you’re a doctor of?’
    ‘More or less. But apart from that, books are very ornamental things to have about.’
    from Ballet Shoes, by Noel Streatfield,
  • Well—then the book is done. It has no virtue any more. The writer wants to cry out, “Bring it back! Let me rewrite it,” or better: “Let me burn it. Don't let it out in the unfriendly cold in that condition.”
    John Steinbeck,
  • "...because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different."  
    Elizabeth Strout via Olive Kitteridge ,
  • How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
    Dodie Smith,
  • Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
    Harper Lee,
  • Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are able to see anything.  
    Saul Bellow,
  • Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.  
    Graham Greene,