It seems to have been all about the short story this week. First of all I uploaded The Last Door Down the Hall to this site, here's quick link - Then this week I sent a short story that had been festering on my hard drive to an editor... and then I finished a short story I first began in the middle of last year. It needs a few re-writes, but I am quite pleased with it...

So it has been short stories all the way. This new one - which is called 'Pandora' at the moment, but I am not sure about that, will get a few re-writes this week and I will see if I am happy with it. There might be a few new stories out this this year from me, then, which will be nice, as I have not been doing many of late!

With Chapter 13 all done and dusted, this week I started thinking 'Short Story!' This may be because I don't really know how to approach Chapter 14 yet, but it has been good to go back to the short tale of terror... I have decided to upload a few of my older stories to the web site and am starting with the 2000 Kimota tale The Last Door Down the Hall. My reason is that they are mostly out of print now and it will be nice to give them a new lease of life... virgin blood to a dying vampire, perhaps? These will be accessed via the 'About Me' page, but initial links will be placed here. So you can go to 'Last Door' by clicking here.

Well... a week has passed and here I am updating as said. Tried very heard to put paid to chapter 13 of the new book, but it has been tough going - and not very lucky, one might say! I feel like this is the last bit of the hill to climb and once it is over with the end will be in sight and it will be plane sailing from there on...

Gowd, I really must keep this up to date. Right - I shall aim to update it once a week, see how I go on... Anyway, not much happening regarding published works at the moment. I haven't written many short stories lately. I have been working on a series of children's supernatural books. One is being passed around various agents as we speak, and the latest is half finished. This week I was on the 'difficult chapter 13.' It was so tough going, I sat at the keyboard each night, really not knowing what I was going to write. Managed to get it done though, albeit as a rough draft... I am aiming to write once a day, you see, and forcing myself to write, rather than spend time on Ciao or watching my box sets of Buffy and Jonathan Creek...

My daughter is ten today. Where do the years go? More frighteningly, when the same length of time has passed again she will be 20. A woman. And I will be... older... greyer, wiser and a little bit crazier... Well, that's something to look forward to, isn't it?

At it again today... doing this site/blog that is! Funny, it has given my horror short story creative juices a swirl. Not that I have not been writing: a children's novel (with paranormal overtones, of course) is with agents, and a second is on my hard drive half way through... A new short has been written, almost. Looking good!

The old site at Geocities is going and this has given me the impetus to do what I should have done years back, update the site, by moving it here! It is still a work in progress, but I have been at it for 2 and half hours and I am knacked...