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    August Falling

    Title: August Falling Publisher: Pantera Press Publication Date: 2 September 2018 Category: Suburban Noir Paperback: (234x153mm, 295 pages) ISBN Print: 978-1-925700-03-9 Ebook: 978-1-925700-07-7 The past. Sometimes we can’t escape it. After a bad relationship, August is trying to piece his life back together. It’s not perfect. His flat is small, he works in a call centre, he can ‘t finish the book he’s working on, and he’s socially challenged when it comes to women. When August meets Julie, he finds she’s everything he isn’t – confident, composed, and purposeful, despite her troubled childhood. With her, August finally begins to feel he can be himself. But Julie has a secret that…

  • One Terrific Lie

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    I have only the vaguest recollection of my first submission – a (long) short story to some magazine (I can’t remember which exactly) way back in the late 1980s. The story was an action story. I remember the story specifically. I still have it (and wrote two sequels, as well as a prequel before prequels were fashionable). One day, I’d like to do something with it although, in retrospect, it’s probably better suited to a screenplay. The magazine was one of those women’s periodicals, like Woman’s Day – although I don’t think it was that particular one. It was one that did publish short stories, though. I wouldn’t have just…