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About Me
- Steven Pirie
- I'm an author living in Liverpool, UK. My comic fantasy novel, Digging up Donald, is published by Immanion Press. My short fiction has appeared in numerous places all over the world.
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Who's blogged what recently?
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I’m A Tough Mudder Effer. No, Seriously. - What do you do when you’re so sick that you’ve literally been curled up in the fetal position for three days? You try to convince yourself that one day, p...44 minutes ago
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Is There a Self-Publishing Bubble? - There has been a lot of talk lately about a self-publishing "bubble." There was the Guardian article in January, a response by Melville House, and the i...
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Story Accepted at Beam Me Up - One of the things that I like most about these "modern" times, is that there are so many ways to access fiction. From Twitter to leather-bound omnibus of ...5 hours ago
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Stories that make you think and say, "huh?" - The Internet is a great source of stories focusing on - how shall we say - the unsual but always interesting side of life. Being a generous writer, I'm sha...1 day ago
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A Dead Letter for The Zombie Feed - Mail Order Zombie just kicked off the voting process for their 4th Annual Dead Letter Awards. Zombie fans are encouraged to vote on their favorite zombie w...
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A Nasty Accident - Yesterday I witnessed a nasty accident in the grounds of Swansea University. It involved a man with his head split open; he was losing a lot of blood and ...3 days ago
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Writer, Know Thy Weakness - I have a confession: I love metaphors and similes. Adore them. A little too much, to be honest. They are my darlings. And my weakness. I'm in the process o...3 days ago
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What I did in February - I wrote a story about *Eric Snow *that's sure to melt your heart. He's out in the world seeking acceptance I thought about things for* Bibliotheca Fantastic...5 days ago
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Promotion 101 – Friend base - After all of the long hours of studying, writing, editing and submitting, you’ve finally sold a story or a novel. You whoop for joy, maybe do a little dan...6 days ago
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great scene, despite the funky tropes - From Miller’s Crossing: I doubt you could sustain much more than a five- or six-second burst from a tommy gun with a full magazine, but Leo manages at leas...1 week ago
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A Short Story Boy In A Novel World: Guest blog by author Mark Allan Gunnells - Ladies and Gentlemen...I am once again loaning out the musty, dusty space of my neglected blog to a writery friend...so that they may breathe life int...
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Review: Epitaphs: The Journal of the New England Horror Writers - Rating: 4.5 out of 5 I love short stories. I love to read them, I love to write them. But you know what’s better than a short story? *A whole freaking...
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Neal Asher's Writers' Workshop - SF author Neal Asher has started a writers' workshop over on his website where he's uploaded a part of a story of his that he never included in his novel ...
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And That's That - Writing The Veggiebox has been lots of fun, but now I'm done. Lots of things are changing. I'm no longer writing stuff like *Light Reading * and *Three Th...2 weeks ago
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The Gondolier in Slovenian - Although the Slovenian translation of The Gondolier has been accepted by the Prizma SF society for publicaiton in their newsletter, I'm not sure if or when...3 weeks ago
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Review: Night Fright - Holy Crap, a new post! I know that no one is reading this blog anymore, but I'm gonna try and post more regularly and drum up some traffic. Anyway, there ...
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Sledding, Innocent Beginnings - In my memory, my childhood is broken down into three sections. In many ways, these are three different people that seem almost strangers to each other, y...5 months ago
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Communication - Spider hole. That was what I called the picture (in Japanese) of a funnel web. I don't speak Japanese, but thanks to Google translate and the internet, I c...
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More reviews - Major Giles Brandon-Forbes-Smythe writes: It's all very well one reviewer telling us how wonderful you are, but for all we know that reviewer could be your...10 months ago
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Yikes - I posted the wrong link below in regards to voting, but it's fixed now. Sorry about that.1 year ago
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BROKEN SYMMETRIES BROKEN-HEARTED - I see I've been a bit lazy with my blog - five months without an entry. BS of course didn't even make it to the short list, but this was not unexpected, s...1 year ago
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THE ART OF BAD WRITING - *Steve and the Really Horrible Monster* “Oh my God!” thought Steve to himself, “this is the end! It’s all over for me! I’m finished, done for!” The big bla...1 year ago
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