To Hull & Back Short Story Competition 2023

When You Are Dog has been shortlisted and will appear in the 2023 anthology.  Thanks to Christopher Fielden and the judges for their generously gifted time and effort.

To Hull and Back Anthology 2023 on Amazon Australia, Amazon UK, Amazon US

Albury City Short Story Awards 2023

This year's shortlist includes my story, When You Are Dog.  Thanks to Albury City for running this competition; Write Around The Murray Festival Director, Ann-maree Ellis, is always such a pleasure to deal with.

The Stoner Cow Has Landed

 

A repentant wife, lost dog returned and house risen from ashes can only mean one thing: someone is playing a country and western song backwards. In a mysterious, wisteria covered cottage, an unfaithful husband faces a devilish ultimatum. Blown off course, a letter travels the world pursued by its mortal foe, the wind. Languishing in an opportunity shop window, an exquisite wedding gown may not be the bargain it seems. A pugilistic kitten and robot vacuum with poor self-esteem take on the mean city streets…

From humour and magic to twisted tales, yearning and desire, these eclectic short stories reimagine songs by U2, Aerosmith, Billy Connolly, Chris Isaak, Paul Kelly & The Stormwater Boys, Crowded House, The Beatles, Divinyls, Hoagy Carmichael, The Temptations, Kylie Minogue, and The Shangri-Las, along with music by Debussy, de Lulli, Schumann, Beethoven, Steve Rosenberg and Dvořák but definitely not The Rolling Stones.*

*With apologies to The Rolling Stones.

Songbook: OUT NOW!

Available from Amazon

US, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, JP, BR, CA, MX, AU, IN

Apple, Barnes & Noble, Vivlio

and wherever books featuring stoner cows are sold.

Denial

Shortlisted - Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Awards

When justice fails, there can only be revenge.  Short crime thriller (10 minute read) free for a limited time.

Download Denial from all major online bookstores and libraries Google Play, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Angus & Robertson, Scribd, Thalia, Indigo, Mondadori, Vivlio) or via Books2Read.

The Devil's Food

In the Scottish Highlands, a lonely widower and his grandson bond with a wild eagle.  

Free for a limited time.  Download my short story from all major online bookstores and libraries Google Play or Books2Read (Apple, Angus & Robertson, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Scribd, Thalia, Indigo, Mondadori, Vivlio.) Read The Devil's Food on tumblr and Medium.  Listen to me reading The Devil's Food on Soundcloud and YouTube.

The Whack Club

My novel, The Whack Club, is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other retailers.

Revenge is a dish best served cold. But some like it hot.

Isabella Albrici's epiphany begins when her mobster husband, Domenic, frames Isabella and her best friend, Teresa Benedetti, for his diamond smuggling operation. Prime targets for the prison’s resident psychopath, Isabella and Teresa will be lucky to survive jail, even luckier to survive if they get out – thanks to Domenic, ‘the family’ thinks Isabella is an FBI informant. The big house ain't no fun house, but for Isabella and Teresa, it’s the safest house there is, until the evidence keeping them there suddenly goes missing.

Welcome to the Whack Club. Four extraordinary women, one simple goal: to take down the mafia men who betrayed them. What could go wrong?

A rollicking tale of friendship, adventure and revenge.

Clair de Lune

Old man winter of nineteen forty-three was a geezer too miserly to pass, clinging to bitter life only to deny his poor relatives the joy of inheritance. With their lofty cathedral ceilings and wooden floors, the classrooms and dormitories of Saint Bartholomew’s were bitterly cold and seemed to grow more so with each winter. Perhaps we could be forgiven for thinking so in our final year, with liberation so close.

Available from Amazon UK.  If Amazon UK doesn't ship to your destination, the anthology can be purchased directly from Fish on enquiry.  It also seems to be available free on Kindle Unlimited. 

Mister Switzerland

If he were a shirt, he would have to be washed separately. His label would declare him a delicate garment to be protected from other shirts, unable to withstand the rough and tumble of the washing machine. He would require hand washing in tepid water, flat shaded drying and a cool iron, though it wouldn’t get the wrinkles out.

Winner of the Sydney Writers' Room Short Story Competition, Mister Switzerland appears in

The Moth Magazine Issue 31 (Winter 2017)

and

The Hull and Back Short Story Anthology 2019

A Letter on Justice and Open Debate

Harper's Magazine: A Letter on Justice and Open Debate