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Issue #1 of my new small press comic PJANG! is now available to order by clicking on the ‘Buy Now’ link in the sidebar*. You’re welcome to ignore this fact, because, as it says acronymically in the title… ‘People Just Ain’t No Good’. Then again, if they were… I wouldn’t have anything to write stories about.

So then, behind a glorious new full colour cover by the ever-wonderful Nige Lowrey, you’ll find three new short stories, as follows…

‘Grotesque’, illustriously illustrated by the one and only Tony McGee;

‘Get Creative!’, deliciously delineated** by the truly original Andrew Cheverton;

And ‘Rooms For Writers’, perfectly portrayed by the ‘Panther, Pink Panther’ Kelvin Green.

£1.75 is all it costs you (including p&p) - and this is real, US-sized comic format, professionally printed by the folks at Ka-Blam! - none of your folded A4 photocopied malarkey.***

Go on, you know you want to.

*This link takes you to a Paypal page. If you don’t have a Paypal account, you can still use it to send payments - and it doesn’t cost you any more than the £1.75 cover price.

**Ah, Stan Lee. You taught me all I know.

***Not that I have anything against folded A4 photocopy zines, you understand - I made my living through them once upon a time. But as the technology now exists to do the real thing for an affordable price, and as the art in this book deserves the best format possible - why the hell not?

I’ve added a Blog Roll to the site, but it’s not actually a list of blogs. Instead, it’s a list of fellow creative types and their homes on the web. Sometimes that’ll just be a plain old blog, but more often than not it’s a showcase of their work… along the same lines as what I’m trying to achieve here. Give them a click whenever you have the time. (And if I’ve missed you from the list, a gentle reminder will get your name added to the roll.)

My other blogroll - all the actual blog blogs I read on a regular basis - can be found in the sidebar of Sunset Over Slawit.

If you show someone something you’ve written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin and say, ‘When you’re ready.’ - David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

Hello and welcome to my website.

All I’ve ever wanted to do is write. To tell stories. To puzzle out the absurdities of the world through fiction.

How do you tell a writer from a wannabe-writer? Writers write. It doesn’t even matter if nobody’s reading - they have to do it, they don’t have any choice.

And so now I have this website, for my writing. So sharpen up those stakes - and get reading!

That’s enough about me. (Besides, I do more than enough writing about myself over at my blog.) If you like what you read here, more will be added soon. Subscribe to the feed and I’ll post updates when new stories go up. All feedback and comments are gratefully received.

If you build it, they will come…

Rol.