Jonathan Cosgrove

the oft neglected site of Jonathan Cosgrove

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  • It’s the little things…

    A few things that have been making this quarantine/work-from-home time that much easier for myself have been… The Devin Townsend Podcast An entirely new podcast from Devin Townsend (one of my favourite musicians ever) where… Read more

  • Some lovely words about “Mouths Filled with Seawater”

    Last week (on my birthday, no less) my friend Kev Harrison let me know of this interview over on Writers, After Dark. Mercedes M. Yardley, the editor of Arterial Bloom, said some lovely things about… Read more

  • Interview on Janine’s Ghost Stories

    We chat about Arterial Bloom, how martial arts helps him to write and that time he farted and blamed it on a ghost… Read more

  • Arterial Bloom Review

    “Arterial Bloom injects the ‘literary’ piece into the horror genre with works that excel in well-crafted surprises, powerful senses of place and character, and works that stand out from the crowd. Contributors to this anthology… Read more

  • The Fire of Fiction

    So this is a little celebratory post* for myself because… Just hit 10,000 words on my current WIP which I shall name – OPERATION MEZZANINE. It is named for the Massive Attack album which I… Read more

  • Six Easy Steps to Never Get Published

    My housemate and I were recently talking about jiu jitsu and goals. I say recently, but really we talk about these things every other day.  Essentially, we were talking about having hard and soft goals. … Read more

  • Mouths filled with words

    So, my story Mouths Filled with Seawater will be published at the start of next month and since it’s my first big publication I thought I’d write something about it. Read more

  • Ergonomical Sense

    A better title might be Where I Write… But this post is really just an excuse to mention how I’ve been ruined by the power of an ergonomic keyboard. I got an ergonomic keyboard at… Read more

  • 30 second vignette…

    You never realise how important writing is until you literally have no time to do it… So now I’m writing this mini blog to exercise that most special of muscles – imagination. Just for thirty… Read more

  • Gorge/Savour or How I Learned to Love Reading Again

    I read 10 books this month. *finger guns* If I keep reading this way I’ll hit 120 by the end of the year. And then I’ll finally be enough… right? I know most people only… Read more

I’m Jonathan and I neglect this site more than I post on it… But that’s okay, I’m probably working on a story or a novel or picking up my cat when it least expects it.

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