Novels written in 2014

• The House-sitter (74,000 words) – SF time-travel mystery

Short stories written in 2014

• A Crest of a Wave (2300 words) – SF, Mars
• Like Clockwork (3000 words) – SF, Mars
• Cast In The Same Mould (4200 words) – SF, Mars
• Finding Waltzer-Three (1400 words) – SF
• An Empty Vessel (3000 words) – horror
• What Are We Going To Do With You? (5900 words) – YA horror

Flash fiction written in 2014

• For a Tooth (850 words) – humorous SF
• Kraken Mare (250 words) – SF
• Corvus Cornix (250 words) – horror
• All I Can See Are Sad Eyes (850 words) – horror

Fiction sales in 2014

• By the Numbers (4200 words) – SF, written 2012 – Infinite Science Fiction One anthology, Sep 2014
• Finding Waltzer-Three (1400 words) – SF, written 2014 – Interzone #255, Nov 2014
• Like Clockwork (3000 words) – SF, Mars, written 2014 – 2^nd prize in Story Quest contest, to be published in forthcoming issue of SQ Mag
• The Sleeper (1650 words) – SF, written 2013 – to be published in forthcoming issue of Phobos
• Carus & Mitch (16,500 words) – horror, written 2013 – to be published as standalone print/epub title, Feb 2015, Omnium Gatherum Books

I wrote about 124,000 (new) words in 2014. That’s less than last year, but that figure doesn’t reflect the huge amount of time editing and reworking ‘The House-sitter’. Also, I’ve often been exhausted due to my son’s sleep patterns, so this is still a higher word count than I’d anticipated.

To date, my fiction word count total is now something in the region of 448,000 words. I’d hope to reach the half-million mark at some point in early 2015.