Shaun Stafford

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Author of Dark, Provocative Alternative History & Transgressive Fiction

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  • Visiting Cathedrals and thinking of a new book.

    Visiting Cathedrals and thinking of a new book.

    I recently embarked on a new venture, with the intention of crossing something off my “bucket list” and writing a book about it at the same time. I confess that I haven’t spent as much time on it as I had first intended. I started to visit England’s cathedrals, some of which I had visited… Read more

  • How dogs break our hearts.

    How dogs break our hearts.

    My wife and I breed dogs. We’re not running a puppy farm and we’re not breeding pedigrees, and believe me, we don’t make much money from it – people won’t pay much for mongrels. We don’t do it for the money. Let me say that right here and now. We have a pack of small… Read more

  • Some Poetry # 1

    I’m not a poet. I’ve never professed to being one. But occasionally, I dabble. So I’d be honoured if you’d read some of my compositions, even if you think they’re terrible. THE LIGHTS The lights draw me to them, like a moth is drawn irrationally to a flame.For a moment, my mind wanders;Perhaps it even… Read more

  • Coming soon. Lebensraum II: Operation Eisbär

    Coming soon. Lebensraum II: Operation Eisbär

    This one has been some time in the making. The fifth in my Greater German Reich series (alternative history), I’ll confess that it was difficult to motivate myself to work on this, let alone get around to finishing it. The shifting of the focus from a dystopian Britain/Germany to a war on the American continent… Read more

  • For the Love of the Devil. Original young adult horror love story.

    For the Love of the Devil. Original young adult horror love story.

    So what exactly is young adult fiction? Recently, I asked some of my followers on Twitter – or X, or whatever the hell it’s called now – to define young adult fiction, and for some reason many of them decided YA fiction features teenage characters and is aimed, mainly, towards a teenage audience. Some even… Read more

  • Maggie’s Children: A story without a blurb

    Maggie’s Children: A story without a blurb

    My novel Maggie’s Children is a book without a blurb. I’ve always been rubbish at writing blurbs, and I’ve known for a long time that this particular novel does not have a blurb which adequately sells it. So what’s Maggie’s Children about? Well, the people on the front cover represent the leading characters, but the… Read more

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