About this site
My name's Jonathan Pinnock. I lead a dual life. In one half of this, I run a software development company called Jonathan Pinnock and Associates. If you've come here looking for that, here's where you need to go.However, if you've come here to find out about the other half of my life, as a writer of fiction and non-fiction, you've come to the right place.
If, on the other hand, you've arrived here by accident whilst searching for Japanese Tentacle Porn, I suggest you try using a different search engine.
If you'd like to contact me, my e-mail address is jon AT jpassoc DOT co DOT uk.
Apr
7
Leaf Nano-Fiction
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I’m in another Leaf anthology! My nano-fiction piece, “Think Tank”, has been commended in their latest competition. According to Leaf Books’ definition, nano-fiction is under 100 words long. No prize money, sadly, but there are one or two quite well-known names among the list, so I’m very pleased to be included.
Apr
7
Poems of the Dead
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Hehe. Excellent. My zombie poem “Zombie Bride” has been accepted for the Coscom anthology “Poems of the Dead”, as previously mentioned here. I’m particularly pleased about this because I completely failed to get into last year’s anthology of zombie microfiction, “Bits of the Dead”, despite four attempts. However, they did pass on the other piece I sent them, a pastiche of William Carlos Williams’s “This is Just to Say”, entitled “William Carlos Wlliams is a Zombie”. Well, I guess it was a long shot.
Apr
6
A Plague of Yellow Plastic Ducks
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The Abacot Journal have just published this piece, which is a kind of tribute to the work of the anthropologist Nigel Barley. If you’ve never encountered his books before, I strongly recommend them. His description of a trip to the cinema with a monkey in tow in A Plague of Caterpillars is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.
The piece is also a bit of a homage to Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, which I love. Did I read somewhere that they were intending to make this into a film? If so, HOW?!
Apr
1
Rebel Without Applause
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So what did become of James Dean after he avoided the fickle finger of fate? Well, you’d be surprised, I can tell you. Find out more in “Rebel Without Applause”, now out in issue 2 of The Right-Eyed Deer. I’m particularly proud of the way that I managed to work Mark Thatcher into the story. And many thanks to Ian Cundell of the VWC, who contributed several ideas along the process of the story’s development. It was a lot of fun to write.
Apr
1
10Flash
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It’s nice to submit stuff and be accepted, but it’s even nicer to be invited to submit stuff. And the e-mail that I received from K.C.Ball this morning did just that, for a new site that she’s launching in July, called 10Flash. Looks like a fun concept, and I wish her the very best of luck with it. So I now have a month or two to come up with a story of less than 1000 words involving a librarian on vacation in a foreign land. Now it so happens that I do have an odd library-based story that I never quite managed to get down on paper, so maybe this is the opportunity to have another bash at it.