Failing Better
Now that I’ve started publishing The Swords of Antona in helpful bite-size pieces (with a military SF novel on the way) I thought it would be a good idea to start a newsletter. The idea being that it’s a not-very often email about what I’m up to, with the occasional special offer to subscribers, and […]
As you might have noticed, I’ve had a bit of a clearout. 🙂 Over the long, long years the site had accumulated a lot of posts which, quite frankly, weren’t doing any useful business any more. You don’t really need to know which panels I’m going to be appearing at for an SF convention next […]
[cough] [cough] Oh dear. The state of this place. I suppose I owe you an update. I accidentally got a full-time dayjob, and then another one, and the writing and blogging and websiting and all of the creative things that I loved well, just all kind of… fell by the wayside for a while. For […]
[blows dust off the blog] Well. Hello. Been a while since I’ve powered this thing up. I’ve got a new book out. It’s called Into The Dark and is a collection of science fiction / horror short stories. About 28,000 words of them, all told. Some have been published previously, and some are debuting in […]
“Writer Piers Beckley artfully condenses the source material to create a lively story that plays out in a mix of poetry, prose and song. The icing on the cake however is Ray Shell’s boisterous direction, which remains sympathetic to the spirit of the Gilgamesh legend while using various theatrical devices to shape the narrative.” – […]
I was dating someone a while back. Doesn’t matter who. It ended. Shortly afterwards I started receiving emails from sockpuppet accounts on an online dating site which we both frequented. It was easy enough to tell who they were from, because after a few how-are-you your-profile-looks-interesting getting-to-know-you exchanges, they would make the same claim as the person whom […]
I went running with the bulls in Pamplona this year. If you’re not aware of this particular pastime, it’s like this: Six bulls run through the streets of the town.You run in front of them, until they catch up.Then you run alongside them and let them pass.That’s it. It’s known in Spain as the encierro, […]