We Should Eat Ice Cream Too (Short Story)

As mentioned in my previous post, "We Should Eat Ice Cream Too" is now available to read HERE. I hope you enjoy it.

FREE eBooks for Halloween...

The season for spooky-doings and ghastly goings-on is upon us, and with that in mind how do you fancy a FREE horror eBook for some Halloween reading? How about two free horror eBooks to give your e-Reader a ghoulish glow?

Available worldwide via Amazon from October 27th 2016 through October 31st 2016, you can get yourself a FREE digital copy of "Dug Deep" as well as "How Mr Snuffles III and Others Met Their Maker" (click each link to find out more about the stories).

Simply visit your local Amazon during the promotion period (October 27th through October 31st 2016) and download the book(s) to your Kindle or to your favourite digital device (phone, tablet, etc) or computer by using the (free to download) Kindle App.

Dug Deep - Amazon US - Amazon UK - and Worldwide!

How Mr Snuffles III and Others Met Their Maker - Amazon US - Amazon UK - and Worldwide!

"How Mr Snuffles III and Others Met Their Maker"...

I had a sudden spark of inspiration a couple of weeks ago, and so, instead of getting stuck in to some deep planning on my next screenplay (working title of "A Sideline In Vengeance"), I've found myself bashing away at "How Mr Snuffles III and Others Met Their Maker" - a dark comedy set in the Celebrityville universe.

Initially I was thinking of it as a short story, but - being that I'm now 5,000 words deep with plenty of ground left to cover - it's looking likely that it'll extend into 'novelette' territory. What's a novelette? A story that's between 7,500 and 17,500 words (at which point a 'novella' takes over, up to the 'novel' crossover line of 40,000 words)...

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Short stories and other writing projects...

Recently I've been working on some short stories, a form I used to write in a number of years ago, but from which I got distracted by other creative endeavours. In addition to using the short story format to further improve my writing and try out some things, I'm also pursuing it for competitions as well as submissions to publications that specialise in short stories.

Right now I've just started putting together "We Should Eat Ice Cream Too" (sci-fi), and I've also got "The Seventh Rub" (no particular genre and more of a personal tale), and "Dug Deep" (horror). "Dug Deep" is a ghost story situated in a collapsed mine as trapped workers are painstakingly being rescued, while "The Seventh Rub" deals with the issue of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. "We Should Eat Ice Cream Too" - a subtle kind of sci-fi story - deals with themes of immigration, societal cohesion, and family - particularly fathers and sons...

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