Hello!
Long time no see! I’m still here but I don’t hang around much anymore, you’re best off finding me on Twitter or YouTube.
The Wicked Library Podcast did a really good job with my weird and spooky Victorian set story Suckle His Poison. I hope you like it!
Hello all! The week before last I was at a writer’s retreat at Metal Culture in Southend during the Essex Book Festival after winning a spot. Visit my YouTube channel for more joyous things, The Essex Book Festival and Metal Culture website.
Here’s my vlog:
The reading of the book I started whilst there:
And the BBC Look East segment. I don’t speak but I appear twice, the last time being an embarrassingly large close up of my mug.
I think I can safely demand to be carried about in a Sudan chair from now on. The local paper did a little story on my acceptance onto a writer’s retreat for the Essex Book Festival.
Toodle pip!
Guten tag! It’s freezing here and snow is covering the ground like pretty little drops of frozen water.
My short story Fingerprints on the Blind Tour is available to pre-order through issue #1 of Clash Magazine, have a peek and get yours!
Here’s a little video of updates, including some very good news I got yesterday. Hurrah!
Hello my little shots of non-alcoholic sparkling apple juice!
Just a quick pop in to say you can pre-order my collection Fortune Box (Eraserhead Press) now: “No one knows where or what Tower Ltd Surprise Packages is or why it’s sending gifts to complete strangers across The City. All they know is that each package is the best thing that’s ever happened to them…or the worst.”
It’s been described as being like a ‘season of The Twilight Zone’ which I was really pleased about. So don’t delay, pre-order today!
I upload regularly on my YouTube and my Twitter, come and find me.
Hello my little sandwich toasters left precariously on the edge of the kitchen counter, I’m afraid I have to bid you a temporary goodbye. My current book is taking up all my energy, and I need what’s left to annoy my friend Steve and fiance Bill.
Please come and find me on YouTube and the Twitters, however, and we can frolic in the spotlight of Big Brother’s baleful gaze.
I usually avoid music because it’s so divisive, but I figured, what the hell. As a child brought up on my sister’s tastes of Massive Attack, Portishead and Bjork, I’ve kept my love of electro oddity, and here are a few of my favourite songs.
Flying Lotus: Zodiac Shit
Flying Lotus, aka Steven Ellison, is a producer, music maker, owner of Brainfeeder records and a filmmaker (Kuso, along with David Firth; both psychedelically brain tickling and stomach churningly gross).
CLOUDdead (Boards of Canada remix): Dead Dogs Two
Boards of Canada are so calming and pretty, and made this ‘experimental’ hip hop song even better. Plus this fan video is amazing.
Tobacco: Super Gum
As well as having their music featured on Silicon Valley, Tobacco made a weird B movie VHS video out of bits and pieces for their album F-d Up Friends. Please be aware, the following video contains ET porn. E…T…Porn…
Sza: Crack Dreams
I never expected to hear such a beautifully dreamy song about doing crack. Her others are great summer listening too.
FKA Twigs: Water Me
I love this weird lady. My favourite song so far is Two Weeks, but this video is wonderfully odd.
I’ve followed Anneka’s (at one point known as Anneka Snip, not sure if that’s her real name) for a few years now. Her EP, Life Force, was recently released with Anti-Ghost Moon Ray. Here’s a song she did with Planet Mu person Milanese.
Hello pickle and sausage sandwiches!
I read the oldest weird fiction that I could get my little paws on; Gilgamesh, The Cannibal Hymn of Egypt, Flatland by Edwin Abbot, The Yellow King by Robert W Chambers and Hell Screen by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
Enjoy!
Good evening!
I read a bunch of all new weird fiction and bizarro books and pondered what it meant to write weird fiction in the increasingly strange times we live. Next week I’ll be discussing the oldest weird fiction.
Books mentioned:
Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 4 (various)
More Bizarro Than Bizarro (various)
Who Cares, Nothing Matters (Julia Platz-Halter)
Lovecraftian Micro Fiction/Challenge From Beyond (various)
Welcome To Night Vale: It Devours (Joseph Fink/Jeffrey Cranor)
Merry New Year!
I trust you all got your heart’s desires? And if not, well, it’s a new beginning.
Here’s a little thing I made about the comments I received on my Lovecraft video, enjoy!
Hello hello my Christmas friends, let’s all dance and sing, with joy and stuff and stuff and things and all stuff in between.
While at Bizarrocon, horror author John Skipp had a showing of his favourite short films (or movies, if you want to be all American about it). However a more accurate title for this post should be ‘some of John Skipp’s favourites’ because the showing lasted two and a half hours and I’ve picked out the ones I liked best, and I couldn’t find the full movies of Einstein-Rosen by Olga Osorio or The Honeymoon by Ruth Pickett.
I’ll start with the silliest first. You might recognise the Lovecraftian rapper as Cody Goodfellow, one of the authors who sat with me on the Weird In A Post Weird World panel. Other bizarro authors pop up too, along with Rose O’Keefe, the owner of Eraserhead Press.
Baby Got Bass from Eli Dorsey
The next is a sci fi short most fans of Black Mirror would probably appreciate, SWELL from Bridget Savage Cole
THE BULB from calvin reeder is weird, fun and a little bit gross
And finally Death Metal from Chris McInroy had us howling. Contains daft violence
Merry Christmas and see you next week!
Madeleine Swann 