My short story collection, The Last Reef and Other Stories, is now available on the Amazon Kindle: click here to buy.

Following my recent experiment in online short story selling, I am now in a position to offer you a PDF copy of my first short story collection, The Last Reef And Other Stories.

The Last Reef was originally published in hardback and paperback by Elastic Press in August 2008. It contains 15 short stories, and received glowing reviews from Interzone, Prism, Sci-fi Online, and The Fix.

In order to get a PDF copy of the book emailed directly to you from me, simply click on the big yellow button on the right (you may need to scroll up or down a bit).

This will take you to PayPal. All you have to do then is enter your payment details and decide how much you’d like to pay.

Yes, I’m putting the ball in your court. You decide what you think is a fair price for a 60,000 word book, pay me, and I’ll email you a copy.

It’s that simple.

I put a lot of work into this collection and I’m glad to now have the opportunity to make it available to a wider audience.

And as a special bonus, when you order a copy of The Last Reef, I’ll throw in a PDF copy of my short story “What Would Nicolas Cage Have Done?”, which isn’t normally included in the book.

So when placing your order, please remember to include your email address and state whether you’d like me to send you the PDF versions of the book, the short story, or both.

Many thanks!

Since my post about making a living from art, I’ve decided to follow the example of Scottish writer Hal Duncan, and make one of my short stories available in PDF format in return for donations.

I will send a copy of the 5100 word story by email to anyone who makes a donation using the “Buy” tab above. There is no set amount: if you’d like me to send you a copy of the story, simply pay whatever you think is a fair price.

The story is called ‘What Would Nicolas Cage Have Done?’.

It received a good response when it appeared in the Future Bristol anthology from Swimming Kangaroo Books, and now the time has come to open it up to a wider audience.

The story starts with a young man meeting a beautiful shop assistant while playing truant from his office job, and ends up somewhere far weirder and stranger than he could possibly have imagined…

Click the “Buy” tab and not only will you have the chance to get a copy of this story for whatever you think it’s worth, you’ll also have the satisfaction of supporting a writer trying to make an honest living through his work.

The Future Bristol anthology is now available to download as an e-book from the Fictionwise site.

“A bargain at $3.49, the book contains nine short stories by leading (local) British authors including BSFA and Philip K. Dick Award-nominee Liz Williams, Interzone Poll-winner Gareth L Powell, novelist and editor Colin Harvey, Stephanie Burgis, Jim Mortimore, Joanne Hall, Nick Walters, John Hawkes-Reed and Christina Lake.”

http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook87221.htm?cache

If you haven’t yet read my short story collection The Last Reef, you might like to know that the ebook version’s currently on sale at half price from Fictionwise - which means you can download the entire 60,000 word book to read on your computer for only $4.00, which is roughly £2.29 - less than the cost of a pint of beer. You don’t need a special ebook reader, as the download is available as a pdf file.

You can read a sample story and buy the book here: http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook71799.htm?cache

My short story collection “The Last Reef” is now available as an ebook from Fictionwise. This means that if you’re unable to get hold of a printed copy of the book, you can now purchase it as an electronic file to read on your computer or ebook reader.

The download is priced at $6.80 (around £3.50 in the UK) and can be found online here: http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook71799.htm?cache