My short story, My Mother & The Medium, has won the Christmas ghost story competition in The News (local Portsmouth Newspaper).
“It was the story which stopped editor Mark Waldron in his tracks and sent a tingle down his spine..” they said.
The short story originally appeared as part of David E. Gates’ second anthology of short-stories, poetry and articles in Unzipped: The Mind of a Madman which is available from Smashwords and Amazon and all good online bookstores.
My book, Unzipped: The Mind of a Madman, has placed in the Semi-Finals in the AuthorsDB Cover Contest
To vote, please go to Unzipped.
My entry to the Grow Wild competition, a poem about fungi, was selected as a runner-up!
You can read it at here.
https://www.canva.com/design/DACaXHnBJww/svFxtkUgeGrOojSGlWLDMg/view?website#page=7
The poem itself will be included in my next anthology of short-stories and poems to be released next year. My current anthology, First Words, is available at all good online bookstores.
The Roots of Evil, the first horror novel from award-winning author David E. Gates, has won the Festival of Horror Best HORROR Novel Logline for 2016!
Logline: Eric Barber works his way through the conditions of his father’s will, to secure a future fortune. But, in a remote village, the sins of lust, greed and envy of the inhabitants are disturbed by strange occurrences and disembodied evil that give way to shockingly graphic violence, intense horror and gore-laden revenge!
The Roots of Evil is available in all eBook formats and paperback from all good online bookstores. Available at Amazon.
The Ghost of Clothes, has won the SILVER prize in the AuthorsDB 2016 Cover Contest!
You can read the story FREE from all good online bookstores or via my blog page here.
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