ASif! have just posted Martin Livings' review of Shards: Short Sharp Tales, and it is another review both Shane and I can be proud of. Thanks Martin!

"It's handsome, slick, professional... hell, it's kind of sexy, to be perfectly frank. Together, Shane Jiraiya Cummings, Andrew McKiernan and Brimstone Press have collaborated to create a superior ( Read more... )

Despite recent  blog advice from gillpolack, a few reviews of my work have appeared over the past week or so and I'm going to post notice of them here :)

First up, felicitydowker has reviewed "SHARDS: Short Sharp Tales" over at Specusphere.

"The overall experience of Shards is that of a dizzying, vivid, frightening rollercoaster ride, plunging the reader repeatedly into ( Read more... )

Martin Livings (martinlivings) and Cat Sparks (catsparx) both have some very nice things to say about my writing over on Martin's LJ.

Martin gives a mini-review of the recent Midnight Echo #2, and my story "The Message" receives some high praise indeed.

Cat chimes in with a comment on how my story 'The Dumbshow' was possibly her favourite story from the CSFG Masques ( Read more... )

Jeff Ritchie of ScaryMinds has posted an excellent review of "Shards: Short Sharp Tales".

Here are a couple of excerpts:

"Cummings is coming at you with splintered tales of the macabre that will reverberate with you long after you have finished the book."

"Shane Jiraiya Cummings with Shards shows he is not only a master of the flash fiction ( Read more... )

It's been a while, and I've got a lot of catching up to do with you all since our big move (which is still going wonderfully), but for now I'm just popping in to smug about a review.

The latest issue of Specusphere includes a review of the new CSFG anthology "Masques". Overall it is an extremely positive review, but I am especially happy with the ( Read more... )