As it turns out, if you write a monthly flash fiction story for your email subscribers, sooner or later you’ll have enough stories for a new collection. That new collection is called A Flight of Reverie and is now available in e-book format from all your favourite online retailers! This collection contains twenty deliciously dark…
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Looking Ahead to 2022
Naively, I thought 2021 was going to be the year in which I made up for 2020… but that didn’t happen. I was fairly on track during the first half of the year, until I got a case of the plague (over my birthday, no less!) and since then, not a lot as happened (and…
My 2021 in Books
You know the old adage “you are what you eat?”, right? Well, books are food for the mind, so they shape the way you think. They allow you to live vicariously through the good and bad experiences of the characters, they present you with places and ideas new to you, and they broaden your horizons.…
To Reread or Not to Reread
There was a time when I read nothing new. I had a few favourite books that I would systematically reread each year, and I was quite content with that. I was wrapped in a warm bubble of comfort reads, blissfully ignorant of anything new being published while I stuck with my familiar favourites. But people…
My Thoughts on No Time to Die
When we heard that the last James Bond film with Daniel Craig in the titular role would be showing at our local cinema, I reluctantly agreed to a movie marathon. “Just the Daniel Craig movies!” I insisted. Life’s too short to re-watch the entire franchise, especially some of those older, campy installments. And so, for…
My Thoughts on Masters of the Universe: Revelation
As a child of the 80s, I grew up watching He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and it was, along with Gummi Bears, my favourite show. I didn’t have any of the figurines to play with and it was always a treat to visit a friend who did. We’d make up stories where He-Man…
Eight of My Very Favourite Mainstream Fantasy Reads
When you read a good book, you want the whole world to know about it and read it too. The books on this list are all relatively well-known already, but I loved them so much that I’m here to tell you the hype is all true and that you should definitely bump them up higher…
Keeping Focus (or How Not to get Everything Done)
I don’t believe in multitasking. To me, multitasking means doing many things at once, but only with half the effort and ability I should have invested in them. I prefer to take tasks on one at a time, do that one to the best of my abilities, and then move on to something else. It’s…
Eight Classic Fantasy Novels That Shaped My Reading Tastes
Some books you read and a week from now the details are gone, but others not only stay with you for many years, they also shape the future of your entire reading landscape. Before I discovered the books on this list, reading was a fun activity to keep an only child busy, but life was…
Release Day: A Spark of Reverie
I’ve been writing a monthly flash fiction piece, first for this website and then later exclusively for my newsletter subscribers, since December 2017. Writing these really short short stories have been incredibly fulfilling, since they give me a format in which to practice writing scenes and characters that don’t fit into my current WIP, but…
