Works-in-progress

Always sounds a bit pretentious, but looks better than 'foolish-ideas-that-might-or-might-not-be-worth-anything-at-some-point-in-the-future'. I probably won't post that much here. This doesn't mean I'm not working on anything, but, you know, you have to be ready to show people a W-I-P. You usually know when you can.

I'll be putting short stories here, maybe, or parts from novels that I'm unsure about, or even those I am sure about, if I'm feeling smug... I'm relatively sure I won't be - I'm usually convinced that a lot of the things I write are crap until they reach some magical stage - third, fourth draft - when I think they're wonderful. Then I have to get over that after a month, and do extensive edits, savage cutting of all the bits I really like, and am left with something I can work with... I hope.


The Lost Celeb, an extract from my novella The Fortune Teller's Factotum

Opening of my novella The Firemont Dorns

The Joker, an extract from my novella The Firemont Dorns

They still believed in angels - notes from a gothic American tale

A note about my novel Angelika and the Forgers

Part One of my novel Cleopatra's Script