I created Valerie Trelawney in 1985, give or take a few months, typing two of her stories on my mother’s old Olivetti Lettera. They were not particularly good stories – derived i… Read More

Just a quick post to share the news that two stories of mine are out in two volumes edited by John Linwood Grant for Belanger Books. The haunting of Fox Lanes is one of the 18 stories in… Read More

What’s with me and the name Valerie?I do not know – but I know a lot of Valeires have turned out in my stories through the years. Indeed, the female lead in my very first “… Read More

yesterday I pitched a story featuring a sort of revived (yet again) and slightly improved Valerie Trelawney – and should the pitch bounce back, I might try and write something anyway… Read More

So I was interviewed online, using Facebook, daring the horror of the nested comments and Mr Zuckerberg less than perfect notification system. It was fun, I was dutifully grilled by the atte… Read More

A few months ago I set up something that was to be called Seven Lives – a collection of my unpublished stories, seven, all with a cat somewhere, to be treacherously handed to my suppor… Read More

I mentioned at the end of august how I was trying to do something in support of a cathouse in Lanzarote – because I like cats and because as a long-time Harry Flashman fan, I love the… Read More

My first exposition to Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars was through the Hammer classic 1971 movie, Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb. Yes, the one featuring Valerie Leon. I can&r… Read More