I started writing short stories in earnest around Christmas 2006, early 2007. I had a lot to learn.
My first success was Message in a Bottle which was published by Every Day Fiction late in 2007. Then The World's End was long-listed by Cadenza in their last Short Story competition, and Sky to the Left (renamed from "Just Thinking") was short-listed by the Science Fiction magazine, Ballista, in their 2008 Short Story competition.
The Cause of the Tides was short-listed in the Global Short Story Competition in May 2009 and Mikael Like the Angel was highly commended in the Jacqui Bennet Short Story Competition in Summer 2009.
Becoming was published by Every Day Fiction in June 2009, Two Colours was published in The Battered Suitcase in Autumn 2009 and Truce was published in Every Day Fiction in January 2010.
Both Message in a Bottle and Becoming were included in the 2010 Anthology, The Best of Every Day Fiction 2.
At the start of 2009 I gave up full-time work to concentrate on completing a novel, taking my focus away from short stories, but I still work on ideas as they come up.