Author Archives: john-houlihan

Reading: Short Story Carers

Here’s the live reading of Carers at Future Fictions Volume 3, with a few photos from the event. It was really splendid to have such an enthusiastic and engaged audience and huge thanks to Viraj Joshi‏ @virajvjoshi who was live drawing each story and produced the pictures of Amber, Molly and Bernard.

May 6, 2017 – 8:57 am | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Comments Off on Reading: Short Story Carers

Short Story: Carers

Carers John Houlihan This story debuted at Near Future Fictions Volume 3 at the Lights of Soho, 2nd May 2017 Resentfully, Molly watched the smile light up Bernard’s face. Why was he always so polite with that thing, when he was so rude and tetchy with her? She dipped her brush and scooped up another […]

May 3, 2017 – 1:48 pm | By john-houlihan | Posted in Short Stories | Comments Off on Short Story: Carers

“Carers” reading at Virtual Futures: Near Future Fictions volume 3

I’m really delighted to have been invited to read my new short story “Carers” at Virtual Futures: Near Future Fictions volume 3 at the Lights of Soho on Tuesday 2nd May, from 7pm onwards. Looks some pretty august company too, so I’ll have to be on my mettle. It should be a really fascinating experience, […]

April 29, 2017 – 8:17 am | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Comments Off on “Carers” reading at Virtual Futures: Near Future Fictions volume 3

Before the Flood in print! + Read a FREE sample for yourself

It’s been quite the 2016, and despite the wider notes of resounding despair and impending apocalypse, it’s ended on something of a personal high. I did my first gig in about 25 years (solo, singing with guitar, rather than just playing as in the old Zookeepers of Deviancy days) and finally have managed to get […]

December 21, 2016 – 12:31 pm | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Before the Flood in print! + Read a FREE sample for yourself

Before the Flood releases, plus free copy of Trellborg!

Well, it’s finally here, I really pleased to say Before the Flood is now released and available on Kindle or Kindle app on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com and all Amazon online stores. It’s the fourth adventure for Major Seraph, and the first full length novel in the series and there’s definitely a change of direction with this one, […]

October 12, 2016 – 8:35 am | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Comments Off on Before the Flood releases, plus free copy of Trellborg!

Before the Flood – finished and cover reveal!

  Well that took a bit longer than I was expecting, but finally … finally Before the Flood is complete and the cover is ready to be revealed. As always, it’s a fantastic piece from Spanish artist Borja Pindado, whose covers have adorned all the previous books in my Seraph series. I must say I […]

October 4, 2016 – 1:44 pm | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Before the Flood – finished and cover reveal!

Best sci-fi and fantasy books August/September 2016

Heading for the beach and  need to escape the piercing glare of the August sun? Or more likely, need to spend some time indoors and hide from a rainy September? Never fear, here’s the second of my picks of the best sci-fi and fantasy books this August and September 2016. Don’t forget, if you want to read […]

August 30, 2016 – 7:52 am | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog, Criticism | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Best sci-fi and fantasy books August/September 2016

Best sci-fi and fantasy books July 2016

It may have passed you by, but I write the regular Reading Matters column for the splendid Geeky Monkey magazine, which is pretty much an essential read if you’re a sci-fi or fantasy fan, or just love geeky/nerdy stuff in general. It’s a rare pleasure and a massive treat to combine my profound love of […]

July 22, 2016 – 10:40 am | By john-houlihan | Posted in Criticism | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Best sci-fi and fantasy books July 2016

Spring…

Bless me Father, it’s been months since my last confess…. I mean blog post. Time has indeed not so much flown as soared, but it’s been a productive period, although not strictly in a fictional sense. Well, I say that, but I’ve managed to crank out a new short sci-fi story Tolerance, for a collection […]

April 26, 2016 – 8:41 am | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , | Comments Off on Spring…

Dark Tales releases!

It’s part two of book release-a-geddon as I’m dubbing it, with the launch this week of my long cherished project, Dark Tales from the Secret War,  a collection of stories which mixes the terrors of HP Lovecraft’s mythos with mankind’s darkest, yet finest hour, the Second World War. Published by the awesome Modiphius, it features […]

December 10, 2015 – 9:41 am | By john-houlihan | Posted in Blog | Comments Off on Dark Tales releases!