Untold Stories wins First Place

The BookFest The BookFest is an online community connecting reading, writing and publishing communities with online events, panels, chats, virtual booths and more. Every quarter they award accolades in various genres from small press and independent books. This spring, Untold Stories won first place for Best Fiction Anthology. Why this is relevant to me is my alternate history story, “For a Cup of Tea” is part of that great collection of fantastika. Untold Stories is available in…

News: On Spec Team, Reviews, and Stuff

Editorial Team At On Spec I am thrilled to announce I’ve accepted an invitation from Diane Walton, Publisher at On Spec Magazine, to join their editorial staff. There is a large roster of editors at On Spec. But, then, they receive a large number of submissions and require a large number of people to read and adjudicate every story. Very much look forward to working with Diane and all the team. If you’ve never read…

Untold Stories, cover reveal and release

Dublin Creative Writers launch fourth Anthology I’m very pleased to present the cover reveal and launch date of November 28, 2023 for the Dublin Creative Writers‘ fourth anthology: Untold Stories: an Anthology. I’m further pleased because one of my stories makes an encore, “For A Cup of Tea”, originally published in On Spec, Issue 23, Winter 1995. It’s an alternative history, and a bit of a romp, examining the famed race between the tea clippers, Cutty Sark…