Location: United Kingdom
Member Since: June 17, 2011
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Clive Gilson


Biography

I've been writing since age 11 and had various shorts and pieces of poetry published over the years. I started writing longer fiction a couple of years ago and have even set up my own small publishing company in collaboration with other writers at The Write Factor.

I've also worked as a journalist and contributor to various magazines and newspapers, although I'm concentrating on fiction right now.

I'm looking forward to getting new work up and out into the wider world, and hopefully we'll get chance to share work, comments, feedback and all that...

Where to find Clive Gilson online

Website: http://www.clivegilson.com
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Where to buy in print

http://www.cpibookdelivery.com

Books

Where There's a Will    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 5520 words. Published on September 9, 2012. Fiction.
Where There's a Will is the final tale (#23) in Clive's ShadowGrimm series of modern folk and fairy tales. If you live by the internet then prepare to die by the internet, especially when you forsake kith and kin for cyber gratification.
Where the Grass is Greenest    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 2970 words. Published on September 9, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Tom Bowler's story is #22 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series of modern folk and fairy tales. Where the Grass is Greenest is a gentle meditation on one man's life-long quest to find the "right one".
Upwardly Mobile    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 4330 words. Published on September 9, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Upwardly Mobile is story #21 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series of modern folk and fairy tales. You should never look a gift horse in the mouth - and woe betide you if you then try to drag it through a hedge backwards...
This Song is for You    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 7950 words. Published on September 9, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
This Song is for You is story #20 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series of modern folk and fairy tales. This a story of evil doings and haunting melodies from the local radio station.
The Television Bride    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 3420 words. Published on September 9, 2012. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
The Television Bride is story #19 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series of modern fairy and folk tales. It's all about "Dropped on your head" television - where ordinary folk are desperate to get in on the act...
The Politician's New Speech    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 3650 words. Published on September 9, 2012. Fiction.
The Politician's New Speech is story #18 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series of modern folk and fairy tales. In this updated version of The Emperor's New Clothes we have dossiers, politics and the unashamed grasping of power...
The Only Way to Know    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 4370 words. Published on September 9, 2012. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Story #17 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series of modern folk and fairy tales... Every celeb should have a plan, not that we're being at all cynical with this one...
The Mobile Phone    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 5160 words. Published on September 9, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
The Mobile Phone is story #16 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series of modern fairy tales... There's nothing quite like out and out avarice to make life so much better...
The Faithful Gardener    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 4170 words. Published on September 9, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
This is story 15 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series of modern fairy tales... A simple tale of faith and perseverance in the face of a disbelieving world.
The Assistant Shop Manager    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 3260 words. Published on September 9, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
The Assistant Shop Manager is #14 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series of modern fairy tales... A tale of simple human affection and hope, taken to something of an extreme.
Terry's Amazing Shin Pads    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 3760 words. Published on September 9, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Terry's cautionary tale is appropriately enough number 13 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series... Have you ever wondered why some of the most gifted people seem doomed to ultimate failure. Terry's story shows how thin is the line between success and disappointment.
Picking the Wings off Crane Flies    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 3930 words. Published on September 8, 2012. Fiction.
This is the 12th story in Clive's ShadowGrimm series of modern folk tales... We've all met kids who delight in picking the wings off crane flies - maybe we've even done it ourselves... and this little tale lets you in on what happens to people like that...
The Phantom of the Sixpenny Stalls    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 6650 words. Published on September 8, 2012. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Phantom is story #11 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series... A tale of daring-do and evil impresarios... with a helping hand from London's oldest ever working girl...
Only the Names Change    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 2310 words. Published on September 8, 2012. Fiction.
Only the Names Change is story #10 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series... A prince shakes his fist at the Gods and rides the clouds into battle...
Miss Jones and the Refugee    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 3360 words. Published on September 8, 2012. Fiction.
Miss Jones is story #9 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series... A story of genteel conservatism in England's leafy home counties, where the scion of a long standing family comes face to face with the harsh reality of life on the streets...
Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 3690 words. Published on September 8, 2012. Fiction.
Jack and Jill is story #8 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series... Thank the fates that you too live in a land where democracy and freedom of expression is an absolute right...
Happy Families    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 4890 words. Published on September 8, 2012. Fiction.
Happy Families is story #7 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series... So you think you know your kids - after all those sacrifices that you make for them, too...
Do Unto Others    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 3730 words. Published on September 8, 2012. Fiction.
Do Unto Others is story #6 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series. A tale of justice, punishment and unjust rewards - appearing in a family just like the one next door...
Big Black Boots    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 5420 words. Published on September 8, 2012. Fiction.
Big Black Boots, tale number 5 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series, tells a story of a proud little girl who always seems to take things a step too far...
The Starving Wolf    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 2560 words. Published on September 8, 2012. Fiction.
The Starving Wolf is book #4 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series... Little Red Gangsta proves that you don't need a cape and a deep and dark forest to deal with wolves...
All for One    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 4790 words. Published on September 8, 2012. Fiction.
All for One is the third book in Clive's ShadowGrimm series... Here you'll find out how the legendary Frazier gang began their reign of wrinkly terror down on the Chavbury Estate...
Heirs and Graces    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 5090 words. Published on September 8, 2012. Fiction.
Book #2 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series... She's the queen bitch, the spoiled brat in the city pack, and until today no man, not even her father, has had the courage to take her on...
A Question of Spin    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 3070 words. Published on September 8, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
A Question of Spin is book #1 in Clive's ShadowGrimm series of tales... Rumpelstiltskin re-told for the modern politico generation - spinning of an entirely new variety...
Five Shorts    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 5550 words. Published on September 7, 2012. Fiction.
Five Shorts is a Dancing Pig Original publication - showcasing work by author Clive Gilson. This small collection of Flash Fiction shorts showcases a number of prize winning stories from competitions.
Jamul's Happy Day    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 4010 words. Published on September 7, 2012. Fiction.
Jamul's Happy Day is a Dancing Pig Original publication - showcasing work by author Clive Gilson. Set in Afghanistan just after the arrival of US and European troops in the early years of this new century, this tale tells the story of one man's patience and reward.
Transcript    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 5490 words. Published on September 7, 2012. Fiction.
Transcript is the first story in a new science fiction series called Cry 'Havoc' from Author Clive Gilson. Don't believe in Star Wars... life on the edge of the solar system is dark and dirty, cramped and mean. The Cry 'Havoc' series tells stories about war and freedom and every shade of grey in between, all of them rooted in memoirs and accounts from WWII.
Acts of Faith    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 105930 words. Published on September 7, 2012. Fiction.
Acts of Faith is a full length novel - the first story in a new series called Cry 'Freedom' by author Clive Gilson. The European Renaissance never happened. The Ottomans were not stopped at the gates of Vienna. Ferdinand and Isabella failed in their attempt to defeat the Moors. Imagine a world turned upside down.
Bastille Day    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 5040 words. Published on September 7, 2012. Fiction.
Book 12 of Clive Gilson's Beasts Within series - Bastille Day is celebrated anew in another world, a world where men are as unequal as they have ever been...
Beginning with Smith    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 3980 words. Published on September 7, 2012. Fiction.
Beginning with Smith - story #11 of Clive Gilson's Beasts Within series. Great apes bay at the moon - all alone at the edge of an unseen universe - or so they believe...
But for the Moon    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 2830 words. Published on September 7, 2012. Fiction.
But for the Moon - story #10 in Clive Gilson's Beasts Within series. Its time to go home - at eighty years or more in age - it must be time to go home?
Devil in the Detail    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 4120 words. Published on September 7, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Devil in the Detail - story #8 in Clive Gilson's Beasts Within series. There is always an accounting to be done - but equally, there is always a balancing of the equation...where there is the dry dust of ledgers then so must there be the magnificence of chaos...
The Mechanic's Curse    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 5680 words. Published on September 7, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
The Mechanic's Curse - story #4 in Clive Gilson's Beasts Within series What sort of nightmares come when you dream machines and those same machines are made real?
The Marchese's Gift    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 5870 words. Published on September 7, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
The Marchese's Gift - story #3 in Clive Gilson's Beasts Within series Young lovers, newly wed, bask in the Mediterranean sun until, one night, after a beautiful meal, they accept a gift and a proposal...
Ragtrade Gepetto    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 5740 words. Published on September 7, 2012. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Ragtrade Gepetto - story #2 in Clive Gilson's Beasts Within series Slapped with the ugly stick at birth all Dave wants is to find the love of a good woman - and then he meets the Gambling Man... always, always be careful of what you wish for...
The Incredible Shrinking Bogey Bear    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 7600 words. Published on April 3, 2012. Fiction.
When Mrs McGonagall collapses with the biggest nose bleed in the world, inventor Dad & his daughter, Morgan, have to come up with a plan. Dad miniaturizes Morgan's cyber teddy bear, Bogey, pops him in a techno-suit, & programs him so he can wield a laser glue gun. Inserted in Mrs M's nose Bogey has just 5 minutes to fix the nose bleed before he reverts to normal size & explodes Mrs M's Head..
The Tender Kiss    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 4450 words. Published on July 19, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
The Tender Kiss - story #7 in Clive Gilson's Beasts Within series. In The Tender Kiss you'll be whisked away to Cretan summers and the touch of the Countess. If you love the dark heart of story-telling, then you'll love these tales...
Nine Lives    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 8700 words. Published on July 19, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Nine Lives introduces you to the chintzy feline horrors of genteel poverty in the gently rolling Cotswold Hills in the UK This is story #6 in Clive Gilson's Beasts Within series. If you love the dark heart of story-telling then this new tale from author and podcaster, Clive Gilson, is definitely for you.
Lord of the North Wind    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 3390 words. Published on July 19, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Lord of the North Wind - story #9 in Clive Gilson's Beasts Within series. Can you resist the fatal kiss of the Wolf Lord? If you love the dark heart of story-telling, then you'll love this tale...
Fancy and the Flutter    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 3460 words. Published on July 19, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Fancy and the Flutter tells a tale of shopping at Christmas, of rain and sodden feet, and of how to turn all of that misery into a moment of magic. This is story #5 in Clive Gilson's Beasts Within series
The Beast Within    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 3480 words. Published on July 15, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Do you love the dark heart of story-telling? Do you love magical tales with an edge? The Beast Within is the first story in Clive's Beasts Within series of tales, telling the story of man, a glass of wine and the effects of sudden solitude.
Into the Walled Garden    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 71580 words. Published on July 13, 2011. Fiction.
Into the Walled Garden is a Dancing Pig Original publication - showcasing work by author Clive Gilson. This book contains 10 years worth of prize winning poetry…10 years worth of work both published and unpublished, collected together for the very first time (warts and all).
Songs of Bliss    by Clive Gilson
Price: Free! 123620 words. Published on June 24, 2011. Fiction.
Songs of Bliss is a Dancing Pig Original publication - showcasing work by author Clive Gilson. Songs was Clive's first published novel. Just how far will a father go to protect his daughter, especially when his 'protection' is so fundamentally flawed?

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