Three stories of selkies and faeries. Encounter the notorious fae of Caldy Hill. Meet the secretive selkies who swim beyond Hilbre Island then walk on land in human form. Discover the magic of Wirral's ancient history in these enchanting dark fantasy tales. Includes: Frog , New Year's Day and Swap .  Price = $1.99            ISBN: 9781476028736 (for all outlets except Kindle) ASIN: B007YFRI9U (for Kindle) A Wirral Otherkin Trilogy was previously published by Amazon Shorts in 2007.  I've decided to re-release it, and as of this morning you can now download it directly from Smashwords.  Kindle's edition is in progress - give that a few hours  and it will be in their system.  It will take a few weeks for it to filter through to the other outlets, (but Smashwords offers a variety of ebook formats anyway).   

You can read this interview with me, done by Steve Andrews here .  Enjoy!   

Emily keeping her visitor company. It was furry and had a face.  That's all Emily knew.  Furry things with faces are toys, aren't they? So there I was, making cups of tea while my neice told me how she hoped she'd done in her end-of-second-year university exams, when I happened to glance out of the window to see Emily wrestling with a grey furry thing.  "Er, Catherine, isn't that your bag?" Of course it was. So we sprinted out of the house and into the garden.  Sitting proudly on the lawn was Emily, merrily wagging her stumpy tail as she chewed a hole in the corner of Cat's Japanese monster bag.  We ran one way, Emily ran the other, round and round the thorniest tree in the garden (as Cat's forehead can attest), saying stuff like, "Emily put it down!", "Emily, drop it!", "Emily, no!"  True to the nature of a Jack Russell having a fine old game, she ignored this completely and continued running rings round the pair o

I was interviewed by Matt Posner for School of the Ages .  Enjoy! One slight mistake - I didn't work in a pottery shop, but in a pottery making pots...but that's no big deal!   

You can read my interview with Laurie's Paranormal Thoughts and Reviews .  Enjoy!   

Jennifer Rainey interviewed me for Independent Paranormal.   I hope you enjoy reading the results.   

Here's a bit of interesting news for history buffs.  Apparently, rare and ancient texts owned by the Vatican and the Bodleian Library are going to be put into digital form and made available for public study.  This amounts to something like 1.5 million pages of previously largely unseen documents, which include works on the kabbalah, the Talmud, Hebrew manuscripts and the Gutenburg Bible. I wonder who decides which texts to share and which to keep private, and why?  Conspiracy theorists could have a field day, pondering over alleged plots to retain the world's Really Big Secrets for a small elite. Personally, I've found the best place to hide something is in plain sight.  Thinking back to my time as a library assistant in the Religion and Philosophy Library, at Liverpool's Central Library, I can easily remember the thousands upon thousands of books stored away in the stacks.  Wouldn't it be great if each and every one of those - and all those like them, stashe

According to an article in USA Today , 21% of the nearly 3,000 people asked had read an ebook since December last year. This indicates a big change in the way people are buying and reading books, a change which looks set to continue snowballing.  And of course that's more good news for writers - not just American writers, either, because in case this fact has slipped you by somehow, people from all around the world can now buy ebooks from writers who live all around the world.  I still say paper books won't vanish altogether, but will become the preserve of big art and photography books - right up until the day when an ereader can also act as a projector, so its user(s) can see a big version of whatever's on the screen.  When you look at a painting, you want to be able to see it in sharp detail rather than squint at a fuzzy, pixilated miniature version. The demise of the familiar pulp paperback format is, however, inevitable.  I won't mourn its passing.  Last time

Don't look, it's a dream! What's this white stuff? How to get dry - puppy style! Emily with her late Uncle Mutley Ygraine, circa 2007. Tidying up old files on my computer, I came across these old photos of some of my pets.  Enjoy!