Seth Update

Thanks to their cheap price, just a fiver a book, my Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories book collection is already building up nicely 🙂

Goodbye January

 Jeez. January took its toll on my Seasonal Affective Disorder. The upshot of which is I have resigned my position in PCS (if I can't help myself how can I help others). I have also decided to quit my cat volunteering, as I am anxious of bringing cat diseases home to my furry daughter. My only hope is that February is kinder to me and allows me to regain at least a little self respect and self belief. 🙁

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Well, after setting myself a more chilled goal for 2025, I have made some good progress during January.

Firstly, the first issue of Avalon ~ the Glastonbury zine is available again. Its had a bit of an update, correcting typos etc.  And I have given it more of a zine look by losing its glossy cover.

Secondly, I have virtually ploughed through the third and final edit/rewrite of Famiar. There are just a couple of chapers and a foreward to sort now and then my 9th and final novel will be available to buy and read. Expect to see it on sale sometime around the middle of February.

Also, I have a short ghost story making good progress on my Scribe 2. And believe it not, Pyewacket now has a whole 1st chapter finally written. Though that wont see the light of day for another year or so...

Targets for February 2025 then are:

Update and publish Explore Gower's Verry Volk and Gower Ghosts

Get my Guy N Smith fanzine on sale again in its slightly amended and updated zine-look format look

Publish my 9th novel, Familiar

Well, that's a bit of a tough target I've set myself for the month ahead.

Still, it'll keep me out of trouble...

A loooong January nears a close

Here is a pic of me, tired after a day at the office but still plugging away at my short story for the upcoming second edition of the GuyN Smith zine, which this year will be called 51 Years of Pulp Horror...

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: