Introduction
Welcome to Heavenmakers, loosely named after my first mainstream publication, ‘The Heaven Maker’. This horror story appeared in the ‘29th Pan Book of Horror Stories’ and the original was typed out on a mechanical desktop typewriter. These large metal edifices have been consigned to museums; perhaps they better make room for me there too.
Here I outline my published works and give some insights into my writing. I have a passion for music and for many years I’ve earned my bread as a traditional musician, mainly playing Scots, Irish and contemporary folk: In the distant past – seems very distant now – I played Heavy Metal, which gave way to Punk, then Cosmic Rock.
University witnessed the demise of my youth, common-sense, cultural expectations and the Cosmic Rock. I played reggae, funk and, in an almost prophetically doomed manner, ended up on the streets in the old and disrespected trade of busking. All the while I was writing. At first it was science fiction but in those troubled times the market was bad and so was I. I could paper the walls with rejection slips. I nearly had to. I wrote some horror and now I write some more, hopefully better. I also write Gothic or dark fantasy and SF. I could say I write speculative fiction and I suppose I do but have never been terribly comfortable with this category and prefer to entertain rather than astound.
Perhaps the best way to judge if you might like to read my work is to know what I like and the kind of things I write about. You’ll find my tastes outlined here and you can click on the picture below and order my book.
