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Burnt Sugar

Publisherโ€™s Description Decades after the incident in the woods, Gretel has forged a good life in a small village, running a bakery and taking care of her brother and the stray, bedraggled women who find work as her apprentices. Business is good, and when itโ€™s not, Gretel took more from the witch than a knack… Continue reading Burnt Sugar

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Malice

Publisherโ€™s Description Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die. A curse that could only be broken by true loveโ€™s kiss. Youโ€™ve heard this before, havenโ€™t you? The handsome prince. The happily ever after. Utter nonsense. Let me tell you, no… Continue reading Malice

Long Fiction, research, Writing

Bluebells Research

Want to know more about the research behind my recent novella Bluebells? Read on! These are some of the photographs I took in 2021 from the town of Berrima which features in Bluebells. Harperโ€™s Mansion which is the fictional ancestral home of Anna and Peter Baylon in Bluebells, is one of the older houses in… Continue reading Bluebells Research

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Youโ€™ve Lost A Lot Of Blood

Publisherโ€™s Description โ€œEach precious thing I show you in this book is a holy relic from the night we both perished-the night when I combed you from my hair and watered the moon with your blood. You've lost a lot of blood . . .โ€ Review I recently read Eric LaRoccaโ€™s second independently published novella… Continue reading Youโ€™ve Lost A Lot Of Blood

Writing

2022 Ditmar Awards

The Ditmar Awards are awarded at the Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy National Convention each year My eligible works for 2022 Best Short Story: โ—ฆ โ€œA Trail of Corpselights", Leanbh Pearson [QLD], in New Tales of Old 1, Black Ink Fiction. โ—ฆ โ€œ Serket's Curse", Alannah K. Pearson [ACT], in Scorpio: Speculative Fiction Inspired by… Continue reading 2022 Ditmar Awards

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The Skogsrรฅ

The skogsrรฅ is one of the important genii loci, the spirit of the Forest from Scandinavia. She will appear to hunters mostly but also to some travellers through the forests of her domain. The Skogsra is often described as human-like being, but with something uncanny about her. Sheโ€™s often very beautiful but will have a… Continue reading The Skogsrรฅ

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Drowned Country

Publisherโ€™s Description Even the Wild Man of Greenhollow canโ€™t ignore a summons from his mother, when that mother is the indomitable Adela Silver, practical folklorist. Henry Silver does not relish what heโ€™ll find in the grimy seaside town of Rothport, where once the ancient wood extended before it was drowned beneath the seaโ€”a missing girl,… Continue reading Drowned Country

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Night of the Mannequins

Publisherโ€™s Description We thought we'd play a fun prank on her, and now most of us are dead. One last laugh for the summer as it winds down. One last prank just to scare a friend. Bringing a mannequin into a theater is just some harmless fun, right? Until it wakes up. Until it starts… Continue reading Night of the Mannequins

Long Fiction, Writing

Bluebells Release!!

My debut horror novella Bluebells was published on July 9th 2022 by Black Hare Press. 1917, Australia. In the aftermath of an alternate ending to the First World War, mass frontline casualties and a mysterious pandemic have decimated governments and the environment across much of Europe and the world, Australia included. Anna Baylon lives with… Continue reading Bluebells Release!!

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The Dark Matter of Natasha

Publisherโ€™s Description Natasha stalks the quiet streets of dead-end Lunar Bay like doom in a denim jacket. Sheโ€™s a grim reminder that some teenagers can never escape the ever-tightening noose of their lives. Burned out and benumbed by a traumatic past, dogged by scurrilous small-town gossip, she finds solace in drugs, sex and Slayer. When… Continue reading The Dark Matter of Natasha