Publications
I’ve been writing articles, short stories, poems and ebooks for over five years. If you like the Steff Metal blog and would like to find more of my work, click on the links below to read my other publications.
My debut novel, Thorn, is currently being considered by two major publishing houses. You’ll have details as soon as I know them \m/
If you are a magazine, blog, website or publication looking for that Steff Metal touch, please email me on steff@steffmetal.com. I’m always looking for more freelance opportunities \m/
Short Stories and Peotry
‘Zombie Tolkien takes in a Move’. From the Asylum. August 2009.
‘23 Stab Wounds’, Sinister Tales, Volume 4.1, May 2009.
‘Over the Edge’ (reprint), Mindflights anthology, Issue 4, 2009.
‘Window Eye’ and ‘Beautiful Girl’. Ilumen. Sam’s Dot Publishing. April, 2009.
‘She’ll be Right’. Big Pulp Magazine, Spring, 2009.
‘Urban Funeral’. Breath and Shadow. Volume 6, No. 2. Spring, 2009.
‘Eury and the Emobashers’. Nocturne Magazine, Issue 3, January 2009
‘Court of the Litterfey’. Reflections Edge, December, 2008.
‘Two Warriors and the Lost Words’ and ‘Creme Biscuits’. Wordgatherings. December, 2008.
‘Over the Edge’. Mindflights, November, 2008.
‘An Open McLetter’. Big Pulp Magazine, October, 2008.
‘Essay’, ‘Sense of a Man’ and ‘You and You’. Breath and Shadow, Volume 5, No. 5. July, 2008
‘His-story’. Haruah: Breath of Heaven. Double-Edged Publishing. Issue 17. Spring, 2008.
‘Requiem for a Friend’. Lachryma: Journal of Lament Literature. Fall, 2007.
‘Sadie’ and ‘Something was wrong with Kera’. Otoliths Literary Journal, Otoliths Publishing. Issue 5. Autumn, 2007.
Heavy Metal Lifestyle / Travel
‘12 Tips for Surviving your First European Metal Festival’, Matador Nights, May 2009
‘Your First Rock Concert’. Kiki Magazine, March 2009.
‘Judas Priest – Nostrodamus’ (album review). Nocturne Magazine, Issue 3. January, 2009.
‘Elven Lays and Powerchords: Chaos, Revellry and Community in Tolkien-themed heavy metal’. Strange Horizons, Janruary 2009.
‘City of the Beast: a Heavy Metal Tour of London’. Go NOMAD, November, 2008.
‘Become a Band Manager’. Dabbling Mum, November, 2008.
‘Aether Aesthetic: the World of Steampunk’. Nocturne Magazine. Issue 2, August, 2008.
‘FinnTroll – Jakten’s Tid’ (review). Craccum. Issue 13, 2006.
‘Obituary – Frozen in Time’ (review). Craccum. Issue 9, 2006.
‘Dragonforce – Inhuman Rampage’ (review). Craccum. Issue 8, 2006.
Disgorge with Dawn of Azazel and Creeping’ (review). Craccum. Issue 4, 2006.
Writing / Blogging / Marketing
‘Writers Annoymous: the 12-Step programme for recovering writers’ (reprint), Writing World, forthcoming.
‘Promoting Your Book with Twitter’, Writers Weekly, December 2009.
‘Accessible Formats for Freelancers’, FundsForWriters newsletter, October 2009.
‘Writing Bio-logy’, Writing for DOLLARS newsletter, October 2009.
‘Wedding Bliss and Paychecks’. WritersWeekly, Janruary 2009.
‘Writing Pains’. The Writer, July 2009.
‘Writing for Writers Works’. WritersWeekly, December 2008.
‘How Tolkien’s Taters Earned me My First Pro Sale’. Writing for DOLLARS!, Volume 12, number 43, October 28, 2008.
‘Making Money from your University Essays (without cheating)’. FundsForWriters.com newsletter, 2008
‘Bio-logy: Anatomy of an Author Bio’. Writers’ News, November 2008
‘Writing the Fantastical Query’. Writing-World.com online newsletter. August 2009.
‘Writing your Hobbies’. Writer Within newsletter, December 1st, 2008.
‘Writer’s Annonymous: a 12-Step Programme for Addicted Writers’. Vision: a Resource for Writers, Nov/Dec 2008
‘A Sidebar Glance: Writing and Selling Sidebars’. FundsForWriters.com newsletter, 2008.
‘Writing For Disability Markets’, FundsForWriters.com Small Markets newsletter. Volume 8, Issue 40, October 5, 2008
‘Writing about Disabilities’. Vision: A Resource for Writers, July-August 2008.
‘Website review: Litmatch’. Vision: a resource for Writers. Issue 44, March/April 2008.
Disability Awareness
‘On the Trail with Blind Hikers’, Turkey City Magazine, forthcoming.
‘5 Tips for Visually Impaired Travellers’. Traveller’s Notebook. January, 2009.
‘Blinded by Sin’, Connections/Lifeglow, March/April 2009.
‘Surviving University Exams’, Dialogue Magazine, March 2009.
‘Blind Characters, a Process of Awareness’, Wordgatherings, March 2009
‘Blind Knights: Adventures in Medieval Swordfighting’. Abilities Magazine, Fall 2008.
History / Literature / Archaeology
‘Stephanie Kuehnert, I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone’ (book review). Nocturne Magazine, Issue 2, August 2008
‘Elanor Gil, In the Shadow of Trees’ (book review). Nocturne Magazine. Issue 3. January, 2009.
‘Well-Stocked Larders: the food and diet of Hobbits’. Strange Horizons, Feb 11 Issue, 2008.
With H. Cowie and N Phillips. 2007. The Invasion of the Interns: Volunteering Internships at Howick Historical Village. Howick Historical Village website, 2007
With G. Irwin and R. Wallace. 2007. ‘A Study of Kohika Gourd Artefacts’. Vastly Ingenius: The Archaeology of Pacific Material Culture. Essays in Honour of Janet M. Davidson. A. Anderson, K. Green and F. Leech (eds), Otago University Press
‘R. K. Skowronek and C. R. Ewan, X Marks the Spot, the Archaeology of Piracy (book review)’. Archaeology in New Zealand, Vol. 59, no. 4
‘Andrew Dalby, Empire of Pleasures (book review)’. Archaeology in New Zealand. Vol. 48, no. 2, 2005.
‘An Analysis of the Armana Period, Aten Worship and Akhenaten’s Success in Promoting it’. Egyptology News. Vol. 4, no. 2, 2004.
Self-Help and Well-being
‘8 Tips for Workplace organization’. Girlfriend 2 Girlfriend. Extreme Diva Media. March, 2009.
‘The Art of Journalling’. Girlfriend 2 Girlfriend. Extreme Diva Media. Jan, 2009.
Competitions
Thorn, War of the Words, Shortlisted candidate.
‘WACK’, Oceanview Short Story Competition. Shortlisted candidate.
‘Into the Light’. Slippery When Wet Short Story Competition, 2007. Honourable mention.
”Thermopylae’ (poem). Third place in O’Rorke Poetry Competition.
Ebooks
Freelance Writing Success: Sell Your Articles to Magazines
33 Mistakes Writers Make About Blind Characters
Interivews / Guest Posts
Apocalypse Ladies: Dressing for the End of the World. Wicked Whimsy, January 2010.
Heavy Metal bands even super-intelligent non-metalheads will enjoy – The Secret Society of List Addicts, January 2010.
That’s Metal, but it’s not music! – No Clean Singing, January 2010.
Black Metal Naval Gazing, part 2. No Clean Singing, January 2010.
Wedding Guests. Tart Deco, April 2009.
