Each year, I run a spooky story writing competition on my website, and this year’s contest attracted over 150 entries – the highest number ever! The standard of writing – from creepy characters to petrifying plots – was incredible, and I’d like to thank everyone who entered. However, there can only be one winner, and [...]
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‘Zonely Love
I’d heard that Interzone was one of the best places to find great new Science Fiction and Fantasy short story writing in the UK, but until just lately I never got around to checking out the magazine properly. This is the current issue… …and it’s terrific! In particular, Suzanne Palmer’s The Ceiling is Sky and [...]
My Zombie Diary
As if I didn’t have enough to do, I’ve launched a new website. It’s an ongoing horror story, told through the diary entries of a family man facing the zombie apocalypse. Click the image below to go check the site out – remember to start from the bottom and read upwards if you want to [...]
Tales of Scream Street
Throughout the year, when the monsters let me, I visit a lot of schools to run creative writing workshops – and that means hundreds of stories are being written that no-one ever gets to see! I think it’s a shame that these terrific tales are being hidden away in exercise books rather than shared with [...]
Sleep Tight
Happy World Book Day! As a special treat, below you’ll find Sleep Tight – a Doctor Who short story written for the Sixth Doctor and Peri, as played by Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant. I wrote it almost exactly a year ago as a submission for the Short Trips Audio Series by the brilliant Big [...]
The Viking webcomic
The start of a regular weekly webcomic to keep me on my toes. It’s called Viking, and this one’s about Dragonsheep. I hope you like it!
Your Bunny Or Your Life
Halloween may have come and gone but, if you’re quick enough, you might still be able to pick up a copy of this month’s National Geographic Kids magazine which features a BRAND NEW Scream Street short story AND the chance to become a character in the 13th and final Scream Street book! For those of [...]
A Sneaky Sneak Preview
Hello, hulloo, hola and herring! Sorry for the looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong absence (yes, THAT long – possibly even longer. Feel free to add some more “o”s if you must). I have been away working on an extremely important project – namely digging a hole. A very deep, very long hole. In fact I was attempting to dig [...]
Write Your Own Scary Stories Part Four!
Hi everyone! It’s time to move on to Part Four of my horror-writing workshop. We’ve already had a quick look at ideas and characters, so today I want to talk about setting. As always, if you want to check out the other parts of the workshop first then you can find them here: Part One: [...]
Write Your Own Scary Stories Part Two!
Welcome to Part Two of my workshop on how to write your own scary stories! In Part One I talked about ways of finding ideas for a story by looking at your own worst fears – if you write about something that you are afraid of then it will seem genuinely terrifying to a reader! [...]
