In Sunshine or In Shadow: Story Background

In Sunshine Or In Shadow came out this week so here’s some background as to what inspired it. Be warned, spoilers ahead because I’m talking about the plot.

Publishing Details

In Sunshine Or In Shadow is a short story published by The Other Side Books [External Link] as part of their anthology, Sea Terrors. It came out on Thursday 17th October, 2019.

It can be purchased from Amazon as a … Continue reading

Goodbye, Snow Child: Story Background

Goodbye, Snow Child came out this week, so here’s some background from my preliminary notes:

Publishing Details

Goodbye, Snow Child is a novellette-length story hosted by The Future Fire [External Link] as part of issue 50 (direct link here: [External Link]). It came out on Sunday 11th August 2019.

Themes & Inspirations

This is another one of those stories with multiple starting points with four … Continue reading

Wednesday 19th June, 2019

Hello!

In putting together Story Background post drafts for In Sunshine Or In Shadow and Goodbye, Snow Child, I’ve realised I owe you a couple more, so today’s update is basically a “here they are” for Let’s Stay Together (published in 2015 and again 2018) and The Knight’s Daughter (published in 2018).

Also, Passage 12 of Plumtree became available to everyone on Monday and you can catch up on the publicly available stuff from the index page here: [External Link]

Other than that, nothing much to talk about, so see you next week.

The Knight’s Daughter: Story Background

I’ve talked about The Knight’s Daughter a number of times and the particular stand out time is part of an interview on Hannah’s Book Shelf, which you can listen to here: [External Link]

(If you don’t want to sit through 2 hours of music and me talking, you need to skip to about 1 hour in.)

However, if you want a written rundown of what I was aiming for, carry on … Continue reading

Let’s Stay Together: Story Background

Let’s Stay Together has been out for some time but I was lax and forgot to write anything about it. So here’s your reminder that it exists:

Publishing Details

Let’s Stay Together is a short story published by The Other Side Books [External Link] in their anthology, the First Christmas Book Of Ghosts. It initially came out in December 2015 (pre- The Other Side Books) but has been available from … Continue reading

An Invisible Tide: Story Background

An Invisible Tide came out last week and I was a little delayed in getting around to writing up the some background from my preliminary notes. However, without further ado, here we go:

Publishing Details

An Invisible Tide is a short story hosted by The Future Fire [External Link] as part of issue 32 (direct link here: [External Link]). It came out in March 2015.

Inspiration

There are three strands of … Continue reading

The Lost Kingdom: Story Background

I have a confession to make: The Lost Kingdom was inspired by the call for submissions for an anthology other than the one it actually ended up in. here’s a litte bit more about that.

Publishing Details

The Lost Kindom is one fo the short stories in Missing Monarchs (Fox Pockets #4) from Fox Spirit Books [External Link], which came out in December 2014. So far, its available on Amazon as a Kindle … Continue reading

A Granted Wish: Story Background

Here’s the background for a story inspired in part by pack living but mainly by fairy stories.

Publishing Details

A Granted Wish is actually a novella (at 15,800 words) hosted by Fox Spirit Books [External Link] as part of their free fiction selection, as of November 2014. All their free fiction can be found here: [External Link].

Inspirations

A Granted Wish is an overlap of several things. The first and possibly … Continue reading

25 Ways To Kill A Werewolf: On Character

The Sales Pitch

25 Ways to Kill a Werewolf came out on Tuesday 12th August (Squeeee!) from Fox Spirit Books [External Link]. The paperback is available from Amazon (here: [External Link]).

Ebooks are available from Amazon (here: [External Link]) and will be available from Spacewitch [External Link].

The Background Posts: On Character

Elkie Bernstein herself was the third thing to come to me after the title … Continue reading

25 Ways To Kill A Werewolf: On Location

The Sales Pitch

25 Ways to Kill a Werewolf came out on Tuesday 12th August (Squeeee!) from Fox Spirit Books [External Link]. The paperback is available from Amazon (here: [External Link]).

Ebooks are available from Amazon (here: [External Link]) and will be available from Spacewitch [External Link].

The Background Posts: On Location

As mentioned way back when in the Living Together and the The … Continue reading