Avalon 1 re-issued

Issue 1 of Avalon ~ The Glastonbury Zine is back on sale in a new tweaked zine format. Look out for Issue 2 coming out this comming summer...

Seth's Ghost Stories Update

The current state of my Seth Ghost Stories Collection

After a few Amazon returns, I spent my Amazon funds on adding a few more titles to my Seth's Chrismas Ghost Stories collection. 

 

One gripe has emerged already. Take a look at The Open Door book pictured above. See anything different about this book compared to the others? It is published by Penguin, not Biblioasis, and is also a larger book than the others in my collection. There is annoyingly little info out there on this book series, so I have no idea why certain editions are only available in the Puffin version. It is annoying though...

Anyway, you can see more about my progress collecting this series of books on my dedicated SCGS page here. 

Sunday Morning Indoor Gardening

Sunday morning = Indoor gardening in 2025. This morning, I thought I would turn my attention to my 6-month-old Kanna seedlings, my Glastonbury Crassula ovata, grown from a single leaf from the excellent specimen that lives upstairs in The Speaking Tree bookshop in Glastonbury in 2010, and my small cacti pads, which are in need of some major TLC:

Starting work on GNS2

I completed the final edit Part 2 of my next novel early and so I got to start work on the second issue of the Guy N. Smith zine a little before its scheduled time:

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Conjuring ghosts from the page

 Sometimes all I want to do during these cold, dark and miserable winter months is to hibernate until the clocks go forward an hour and the warm of spring awakens the countryside. For now, my best escape from the harsh inconviences of earning a crust and battling the afflictions and ailments of increasing age and ill health as to sit in a quiet place, away from the bustle of every life and create places, people and circumstances of my own. Let an imagined protagonist face a happenstance far more worthy of anxiety than my own petty concerns and lose myself in his actions and thoughts for awhile. And so I take a second sojourn to a andventure I'd hope never to endure in the real world.

Continuing my ghost story for GNS Zine 2

Mandrake & Money Tree

Sunday morning is my favourite time for indoor gardening. Today, I thought I'd share pics of my 4-year old Mandrake coming back to life and my new Crassula ovata project:

Seth's Christmas Ghost Story Collection

I promised a few entries ago that I would do another Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories book post and here it is. As of today, there appears to be 30 books already published in the series, so I have a lot of catching up to do with my collection, which, as of today, looks like this:

As I hope to collect the full series eventually, I have created a webpage to add more info about the series and detail my growing collection. You can find it both here and on my Library page.