Sleaze Fiend Magazine - Issue #4 available now!

Issue #4 of Sleaze Fiend Magazine is now available to purchase - and it's a full colour issue!

Here's what you can find inside:

Full Color Super Special -190 Pages of Sleaze! 42nd Street Pete (Grindhouse Purgatory Magazine) even did an article!

Featured Articles:

The Most Notorious Block in the World
Dale's Deuce Double Feature
Fleshpot on 42nd Street Uncut
Peepshows - A - Poppin'
Daycare For Perverts
Wes Craven is Abe Snake
Queen of Nazisploitation
Porn Star: Interview with Felicia Fisher
Two Sleazy Years: 1987-1988
Shot on Spahn Ranch
Once Upon A Time in...Hollywood Review
Stuntman: Interview with Gary Kent
Remembering the Fallen
Black Rainbows and Burning Tygers
Dear Diary with Felicia Fisher
The Golden Age: Samantha Fox
Retro Sleaze: Playboy Sex in Cinema

Each issue also includes an authentic Show World Center Token.

I wrote the article "Two Sleazy Years: 1987-1988", as well as the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood review, and I also wrote a short story titled "Daycare For Perverts" especially for this bumper edition of SFM.

Visit the SFM Store Envy page HERE to pick up your copy now.

"For Want of a Nail" - a bit of news...

Just a quick post to say that "For Want of a Nail" - which started out as a short story, but which I then adapted into a short screenplay - has made the shortlist for a script competition. Lovely stuff!

For more information on the story itself go HERE and scroll down.

Flavours of the Month: November 2015

Deliciously dark drama, refreshed writing, and a chainsaw-wielding ass kicker...

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"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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Flavours of the Month: March 2015...

There's been a bit of a Werner Herzog vibe to this month as I finally caught up with a few recordings I'd made several weeks ago during Film4's season of films by the filmmaker - such as Aguirre Wrath of God, Stroszek, Nosferatu The Vampyre, and Fitzcarraldo ... but there's also been a dose of Hollywood satire, a pinch of Thomas Pynchon, and a journey through some bleak post-apocalyptic tunnels, among other such things...

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"Celebrityville" marches forth...

I got a little bit done before Christmas ... then all the usual festivities got in the way ... drinks, chocolate, presents, chocolate, roast dinners, chocolate, you know how it goes.

Then I caught a stinking, foul cold which dragged on for days. I was pretty floored by it but, eventually, it passed and I was able to get back to the twisted world of "Celebrityville" - and I'm now two thirds of the way through it...

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"Celebrityville" is getting there...

Planning out "Celebrityville" (my second book) is coming along very nicely indeed. Today, after a few weeks away due to another project I was working on, I finalised the layout of the story. The break was good though, as I could spread out the index cards for all the major beats of the story (something I talked about in an earlier post) and see it all with a fresh pair of eyes. I plugged a few plot holes and motivation gaps, so the events and pacing of the story is locked-in. Next up I'll be doing a rough map of each chapter (where it starts, where it ends, the basic beats of what happens when, and who says what to whom and why) ... and then it'll be time to getting my fingertips waggling.

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Flavours of the Month: November 2014...

Zombies and nasties and reporters galore, rocking and writing and editing and more ... just some of the flavours of my November 2014...

Click "READ MORE" below for the full run down of what the looks, sounds, vibes & flavours of my month have been...