simon wood

HOT SEAT Book Signing

The 2nd Aidy Westlake book, HOT SEAT, comes out at the end of the week and this Saturday, I’ll be at Book Carnival for my only SoCal signing. I hope to see my southland chums there. I’ll be signing with the lovely […]

Hump Day: Magic Coat

Joseph had his Technicolor Dream Coat and I have Simon’s Coat of many Pockets. I’m busting it out for my flight I have at the weekend so I don’t have to pay baggage fees. I feel for the airlines that are struggling, […]

Hump Day: King of the Hill

I’m going a little off piste today with something a little more personal than usual. As most of you know, I busted myself up while cycling last year. I picked a broken elbow, concussion, bruised ribs and assorted scraps and dents. Can’t […]

Shelf Life: Going Dark

A revised version of ASKING FOR TROUBLE will be coming out at the end of the year. Working with the editors on it, a comment came back that a couple of the stories in the collection were too dark and they wanted […]

Hump Day: Copy Cat

A few years ago, I wrote about a company, the horribly named Genetic Savings and Clone, which cloned dead cats for their owners. They were recently forced to closed down, partly because there weren’t many customers and partly from pressure from animal […]

Hump Day: Trial & Error

Have you ever noticed how jury selection is pitched to the proletariat the same way timeshares are sold? “Hey Bob, you’ve just won the county lottery and you may have won the chance to be on a jury. To claim your prize, […]