UFU 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 28, and 30 - now at Patreon

Doh! Once again I have let my blog / website slide, and I realise that news of no less than seven episodes of Underwood and Flinch Underground haven't been posted here. Sorry about that, I guess it's the commentless world of Blogger that makes me forget this is - potentially - a thing people look at. Anyway, I'm renewing my pledge to start posting again. I'm going to start treating this like the blog it is and start posting stuff about what goes on in my life, no matter how pedestrian or unremarkable it may be. But that's all to look forward to. For now, it's enough to say that Underwood and Flinch Underground Episode 30 went live this evening at Patreon ($3 a month) and I think it's one you'll really enjoy.

And in blog news, I had a pasta-pesto meal for dinner, which was very nice. And my freezer has a lot of frozen comfrey in it, which I use on my fractured finger. The finger is most likely healed by now, but it's still got a very swollen knuckle that the comfrey seems to be bringing down ... or maybe it's just time doing the mending without help, I don't know. But I like to think the comfrey is playing a part.

UFU 23 is now live at Patreon

Yes, it's taken a long time, but I hope you'll agree it was worth it ...

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Underground Episode 22 is Now Live

Underwood and Flinch Underground has just reached 22 podcast episodes at Patreon!

Appearance in the local press.

I got a mention in the local Wexford newspaper, the Wexford People. 

If you saw the piece and have navigated here to check out my wares, click here or on the tab above headed "Podcast Audio Books" for links to all my free podcasts and audio books, including the post-apocalytic zombie story After the Plague and my vampire novel series Underwood and Flinch. Happy listening :-)

Herbert West and Azathoth enter The Vault of Lovecraft

Just a quick note to let you know that Herbert West: Reanimator (full text) and Azathoth by H.P. Lovecraft have entered the Vault of Lovecraft (that's the new podcast with all the readings I've done since 2007 in it, just in case you missed my previous blog entry).

Cthulhu suggests in the politest possible manner that you share news of the Vault with any of your Lovecraft-loving chums. Link to it on Facebook, Twitter, What'sApp or whatever other social media device you use. Otherwise mankind will be destroyed ... he says.

Enter the Vault of Lovecraft

For some time (years) I've been meaning to put all my HP Lovecraft recordings in one place. I'm now in the process of doing so. Nine stories up so far, including the full length recording of The Colour out of Space. Click here to enter the Vault of Lovecraft

Artwork on all the stories is by Jon Cape. Music by The Laughing End, David Beard, and Andrew Rothman.

Catching Up

As usual I'm behind with my blog news. I tend to share things on Facebook and think I've finished, which is stupid because obviously not everyone's on Facebook, but still, it's the only medium that speaks back to me so I tend to prioritise it. My big mouthpiece there is the Sect Facebook group, so if you're not a member, you can join up here: The Facebook Sect

It was there that I shared this little bit of wonderful news.

Winner: Best Story: Small Cast (Long Form) After the Plague by Mike Bennett #parsecawards

— The Parsec Awards (@parsecawards) September 5, 2016

... which is awesome! If you haven't listened to After the Plague yet, you can get it here: After the Plague by Mike Bennett

I really have to start updating here more often. The problem is, not much happens to me, so I don't tend to leap to my blog every five minutes to say so (that nothing has happened to me), so when something does happen, it's not my habit to share - as it is with Facebook - the news.

I'll take steps to remedy that. From now on, I'm going to blog anything interesting whenever it happens. But before I do, I should give you a few catch ups on things I've done recently and neglected to mention ...

Dracula, Episode 3, podcast now at Patreon

Underwood and Flinch Underground, Episode 19, ebook chapter now at Patreon

H.P Lovecraft's Beyond the Wall of Sleep, podcast available in my podcast feed and at Patreon

Underwood and Flinch Underground, Episode 19, podcast chapter now at Patreon.

Again, apologies for not keeping the site up to date. I'm changing my ways as of today :-)