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At the moment, I’m working on a story with the working title “Good Neighbour” which I’ll be publishing in separate parts on this website. It’s about a guy called Tony who’s being a bit too curious about the new neighbours and then gets sucked into their potentially dangerous world.

I’m also working my way through the editing of the Pulse Hospital Radio Chronicles, ready to publish a new collection of five stories. As always, I’ll keep you posted.

Editing on the Pulse Hospital Radio Chronicles is going well. I’m up to Richmond’s Podcast Crisis now, and I’m surprised at how little I need to change. Enough time has passed since I wrote it that now I can enjoy it more from a reader’s point of view. Ideally with everything I write, I’d let a year go by before going back to my first drafts, so I can be truly objective, but there’re too many stories to tell and expose to the world for me to get away with that. Anyway, back to it.

I’ve been going over all the previous stories in the Pulse Hospital Radio Chronicles with my cold blooded, ruthless editor’s head on (ready for when I release them all as a collection) and I’m surprised at how much I’ve learnt since that first story. I had no idea that I’d be able to milk the idea over five short stories when I first started, and I pretty much made them up as I went along, so now I’m enjoying the opportunity to insert little subtle details into the earlier stories to make it look like I knew what I was doing all along (at least to newcomers to the series, like my friend Roy).

You’ll be glad to hear that I’ve just completed the first draft of the fifth and final (for now) short story in the Pulse Hospital Radio Chronicles. Now it’s time to leave it to brew for a bit, and then go back to it and despair at the monster I have created. Ha ha! Only joking (hopefully)

I’m quite happy with what I’ve written, and I like the way I’ve tied things up but also opened up a new thread which will continue in a full length novel. There’s a connection to the very first short story (Richmond’s Rarity) as well, via the completely made up song ‘Too Much of a Good Thing is a Bad Thing (Sweet Thing)’ by the (also completely made up) band The Raz Raz Band. I’ve got to work on the cover of the new story now and the cover of the collection of all five stories, so I’ll crack on. I’ll let you know when the new stuff is coming out. Ta ta for now.

Been working on a design for my upcoming compilation of Pulse Hospital Radio Chronicles (5 short stories and a prequel). It never gets any easier to design covers it seems. You’d think being an artist and writer would make it easier, but I suppose it’s the same as the issue of writing my own blurbs: I’m too close to the work to see what the core of the story is, both visually and plot wise. I’ll get there. Sometimes it’s a case of doing a few designs and cherry picking what I like about them, then combining them to make the ideal cover. I quite like the logo for the radio station at the head of the design, so that’s a start, I suppose.

In other news, I got a random sale today of A Fifth Visitor Or How Scrooge Kept Christmas. Maybe sales will pick up as Christmas gets nearer. That’s what usually happens, but I’ve not worked on my Amazon ads for a while. Anyway, hopefully whoever bought it will drop a review when they’ve finished with it. Reviews are the indy author’s bread and butter, after all. Thanks for reading, and as always, I’ll keep you updated with my writing progress.