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