Where Have The Voices Gone?
I still write. Mainly for work. Website copy, social media content, snappy headlines to grab a buyer’s attention. Pays the bills. Not much in the way of thrills though. Such is life, and I’m grateful to be paid for exercising that part of my brain. What a contrast to my former life in sales. There […]
SPARKY – A New Short Story
AUGUST IS GOING TO BE BUSY. Two short stories will be released. The second – a Choose Your Own Adventure, that will test all my patience and creativity. The first… ..well, it’s called SPARKY and it’s now available to purchase for the princely sum of $1. You can check it out on Amazon by clicking […]
BookFunnel Giveaway
It’s been a long time since I was part of one of these. I’ve entered one of my short stories into a sci-fi and fantasy giveaway which is running right through the month of July. There are close to a hundred titles to download to your device. Free. Great time to fill up the ol’ […]
Writer Wars
I’m considering building a website. For the past two years I’ve been transitioning into a new career as a software developer. While I’m currently seeking out jobs in this space, I figure I might as well apply what I know to an area that I have an interest in. Reading. Or to be more precise, […]
Buy Me A Coffee, Pathfinders is 5!, Spam and Recap
I left this blog dormant for a couple of years. There were a few reasons for that.
Choose Your Own…Language?
As a teenager, I loved immersing myself in Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) stories. To the uninitiated, these are stories where you – the reader – can choose the destiny of the protagonist. Each choice made takes the story in a different direction. A simple example:
Games Writing (Channelling My Inner Ogre)
I had the recent good fortune to land a writing gig at Larian Studios. Myself and a few other writers were enlisted to create scenes and dialogue for the upcoming Baldur’s Gate 3 game (no spoilers here!). Although I have priors in writing, having published blogs and articles for a bunch of companies – not to mention my […]
The Daily Rot
STARTING MARCH 1ST I’M EMBARKING on an ambitious project which, in equal measures both excites and terrifies me. Some background: Last Summer I enrolled in a Coding Course to reskill as a full stack software developer. As I near the end of the course, I’m finding it quite difficult to land my first developer job […]
Code Read
The title sums up my absence from the blogosphere in the past four months. I’m changing career and have enrolled in a course which will lead to (hopefully) opportunities to become a full stack web developer, something which I’ve been really enjoying in recent months. My spare time outside of creating buggy websites and novelty […]
Irish Shores and the Kindle Paperwhite Giveaway
Back in Dublin. Christ, I had forgotten how cold it is here. 8 °C which is just plain silly for Spring. I have it on good authority that there’s a heatwave coming tomorrow. If not, I’m gonna find the nearest oven to climb into for heat.
There’s a (writing) storm comin’
A CERTAIN PRIEST has been bugging me again. Fr. Tom Regan to be precise. Fresh off the back of his travails in the jungles of Peru, he wants to be let off the leash again. I’ve been relatively quiet on the writing front so I was as surprised as anyone to hear him chirp up […]
MEGA Giveaways – Thriller/Crime and Funnies!
INCOMING!!!!! The guys over at BookSweeps are arranging a couple of huge giveaways which end in the next few days. I’ve teamed up with 70+ other authors to give away a massive collection of books across two competitions to four lucky winners, PLUS a brand new eReader to the Grand Prize winner!