Happy birthday to me! Still alive, still in love, still mostly healthy and mostly sane. Mostly.

What new abomination is this? What's with all the 'Tik Tok showed me' nonsense?

Issue 13 of 34 Orchard, which includes my story 'The Fire' along with a bunch of other great stories and poems, is out now. You can download the PDF for free, or optionally make a donation toward the cost of producing the magazine. 34orchard.com/issue-13/

Lanzarote, April 2016

Gran Canaria, 18 March 2026

Lanzarote, April 2016.

County Leitrim, Ireland, July 2014.

Writers Online published a clip from an interview I did with them when I placed third in their Grand Prize 2025 short story competition. You can check out the interview clip at: bsky.app/profile/writ... and you can read the story at: www.writers-online.co.uk/writing-comp...

Palmitos Park, Gran Canaria, December 2025

Why is the cat in the bag? Because there wasn't a box!

My story 'Púca' came third in the Writing Magazine Grand Prize 2025 competition! www.writers-online.co.uk/writing-comp...

I did a year end thing on substack. These are all the stories I've had published in 2025. Also there's this picture of a very beautiful cat. keirareynolds.substack.com/p/the-year-t...

My story 'The Fire' has been accepted by 34 Orchard, for publication in April, 2026. A rare non-speculative piece for me. No sci-fi or fantasy in this story. A couple in a flagging relationship go camping. As they kindle a campfire, can they also rekindle their love for each other?

My latest Patreon post is live. It's got some life updates, and for paid supporters, it has a snippet from my upcoming book, Ex Partum (coming soon from @atthisarts.com). www.patreon.com/posts/140919... #scifi #specfic #booksky

It's publication day! My story 'Lámfada' is published today in Black Cat Weekly #218

Some very scary, very Radon, and also very gay movie recs as Halloween approaches — as selected by our editors!

Oh my god no, don't put it in your mouth.

The paperback is out now too! 😀

Butterfly. Maspalomas. November 2024.

Fireworks, Playa del Inglés, 24 June 2025

Fascism is bad, actually. I didn't think I'd have to say this in 2025, but apparently some people didn't get that memo.

Playa del Inglés, Gran Canaria, 3 October 2025.

I have been listening to the Audible edition of Gareth L Powell's 'About Writing'. It's very good. Lots of good advice about writing. Some good advice about living, too. And Mr Powell's narration is pleasant to listen to. Recommended.

My story 'Lámfada', a fantasy inspired by Irish mythology, has been accepted for publication by Black Cat Weekly! 😸

The Kindle edition of the Fall into Fantasy 2025 anthology, which includes my story 'The Hunger', is now available on Amazon. It's got a strong female protagonist, druid magic, and undead flesh-eating monsters. Go read it now, you know you want to.

Now live, both the print and audio versions of my story, “Through the Machine” (As featured by Gizmodo—link threaded). Again, If you only read one of my stories this year, let it be this one. And if you like it, please share. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...

Two minutes back in Ireland and we're cold and wet already. Got soaked to the skin by a cold rain getting from arrivals to the car park. Cead mile feckin failte.

I got my first (that I know of) negative review. I shall print it and frame it and display it next to my first rejection and my first acceptance.

My story 'Demoness' is free to read at Androids & Dragons. I'm loving the photo they chose to illustrate it: androidsanddragons.substack.com/p/demoness

It's publication day! My novelette 'Caoránach' is published today in Black Cat Weekly #199!

My story 'The Black Hill', a fantasy inspired by Irish myth, legend and folklore, is available now in Luna Station Quarterly Issue 062: www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/062/

My story 'Abhartach' (inspired by an Irish legend that may have influenced Bram Stoker's 'Dracula') is out now in Black Cat Weekly #195! blackcatweekly.com/b/BZoEK

Super excited today having just signed off on the final proofs for one story and the contract for another! Read 'Abhartach' in Black Cat Weekly #195, to be published tomorrow, and 'When the White Peak of Nuraghad Calls Them Home' in Bullet Points (date to be confirmed).

My novelette 'Caoránach' has been accepted for publication by Black Cat Weekly! Publication date to be confirmed. Watch this space for updates!

My story 'The Hunger', a fantasy inspired by Irish mythology and folklore, has been accepted for publication by Cloaked Press, for inclusion in their 'Fall into Fantasy' anthology, to be released in the second half of this year!

Less Trump, more De Niro, please.

New blog post: keirareynolds.com/2025/05/04/p...

So, let me see if I've got this right. The UK Supreme Court has apparently decided that, under UK law, all trans people are now Schrodinger's Cat?

My story 'The Black Hill', a fantasy inspired by Irish mythology, has been accepted by Luna Station Quarterly, for publication in the June issue! 😀

It's here! 34 Orchard Issue 11, which includes my story "Fool's Gold" (and lots of other good stuff) is now available. Download the PDF for free, or make a donation if you can. 34orchard.com/issue-11/

New blog post. Remember when we used to browse the web, before we started spending all our online time on social media? keirareynolds.com/2025/04/10/r...

My story 'Abhartach', a fantasy inspired by an Irish legend, has been accepted by Black Cat Weekly! Don't have an exact publication date yet, probably in or about October.

Reposting this today because yesterday was a rubbish day to post anything!

It's April 1, and that means that Pulp Asylum #6, which includes my story 'Gargoyle', is now available. Read it online, or download the PDF, at www.pulpasylum.com

In "It's a Good Life" (Jerome Bixby, 1953) a small town is ruled by a three-year old with supernatural powers. Anyone the child doesn't like disappears. The townspeople hope things will get better when the child grows up. Unfortunately for the US and the world, Trump is never going to grow up.

Three stories coming soon! 'Fool's Gold' will be published in 34 Orchard, Spring 25 edition. 'Gargoyle' will be published in Pulp Asylum, April 1st. 'Demoness', originally published in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine in 2023 will be reprinted in Androids and Dragons in July. Mostly fantasy. Mostly.

This cutie was sleeping happily in the changing room of a clothes shop in Gran Canaria. We assumed he belonged to the shop, but no. He just wanders in every day for his siesta, and the staff direct customers to other changing rooms so as not to disturb him!

A song for our times -- here it is on YouTube for anyone who couldn't follow the Spotify link I posted yesterday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA4g...