C.R. Berry

  • Advice on self-publishing + story updates

    Evening all! I’m back with more news updates and advice for fellow writers. This month I’ve got a handful of updates about Million Eyes and the Million Eyes Short Stories. I’ve also got some advice about self-publishing, having been through the process myself. Mystery Weekly rejections I mentioned last time that online magazine Mystery Weekly… Read more

  • The hotel that slipped forwards in time – then back again

    We’ve all stayed in a hotel that’s in desperate need of a refurb, lacking in modern conveniences, and basically stuck in the past. Though, next time you do, you might want to stop and ask yourself if the hotel has actually become unstuck from the past…. Time slips and involuntary time travel have been reported… Read more

  • Heather Mills knows that Paul McCartney is an imposter

    Paul McCartney is dead. He has been since 1966. And Heather Mills knows it. In my first Paul McCartney article, I looked at some of the audio and visual clues in The Beatles’ songs and album covers that allegedly expose the music industry’s biggest and most audacious secret: Paul McCartney was killed in a car… Read more

  • Assassination by tea! Putin and the murder of Alexander Litvinenko

    Wow. It turns out state-sponsored murder isn’t always just a paranoid conspiracy theory… On 1st November 2006, at the Millennium Hotel in London, ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko – who fled to London in 2000 – took tea with fellow former agents Andrey Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun. It’s said that Lugovoi and Kovtun were helping Litvinenko… Read more

  • Spotting publishing scams + story updates

    Howdy! How’s everyone’s January blues? Despite the last week’s cold snap making it very difficult to get out of bed, I’ve mostly kept the blues at bay. This is thanks to lots of copywriting-shaped busyness, catching up with friends and going to see an excellent film that one or two of you might’ve heard of… Read more

  • Is William Shakespeare history’s biggest fraud?

    Could it really be the case that ‘William Shakespeare’ is just a fictional alias hiding the real scribes of Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and the like? Is Shakespeare the biggest hoax of British history? The notion that Shakespeare didn’t actually write his popular catalogue of plays has been debated since the middle of the 19th… Read more

  • The sixth sense – is it possible to see the future?

    Happy New Year to you all! The blog is back and this week I’m asking, is the sixth sense real? Are there really people out there who can see the future? The answers may lie with our dreams, flamingos and Dennis Quaid’s wife… The sixth sense – also known as extra-sensory perception (ESP) – is… Read more

  • “Behind The Curtain” hits 100,000 views!

    Hello readers! “Behind The Curtain” has gone past 100,000 views (it’s actually on 104,560 views as I write this), and that is thanks to all my loyal readers – so thank you! My top 5 posts in 2015 are: Alleged time traveller Andrew Carlssin disappears – did he go ‘back to the future’? Babushka Lady and Umbrella… Read more

  • Sneak peek of my short story “Who is Rudolph Fentz?”

    As promised yesterday, I’m back with a sneak peek of my short story Who is Rudolph Fentz? Based on the actual urban legend of time traveller Rudolph Fentz, this is the first of the Million Eyes Short Stories to be published and appears in the winter 2015 issue of Scribble magazine. The following paragraphs are taken from near the… Read more

  • My short story “Who is Rudolph Fentz?” is now available to read in Scribble Magazine

    Evening all! The winter 2015 edition of award-winning short fiction magazine Scribble is now available to buy for £4.50 from their website. You can also take out an annual subscription for £15.00. As you’ll know from my previous posts, the winter 2015 edition contains my short story, Who is Rudolph Fentz? This is a mystery story about a man… Read more

  • Paul McCartney has been dead since 1966

    Beatles legend Paul McCartney is not who he claims to be. That’s according to a number of conspiracy theorists who believe he was killed in a car crash in November 1966 and his death was elaborately covered up… The “Paul is Dead” conspiracy theory and urban legend is one of the most bizarre that I’ve… Read more

  • My short story “Who is Rudolph Fentz?” will be published in the winter edition of Scribble

    December greetings to all! It’s now confirmed that Who is Rudolph Fentz? – the first of the Million Eyes Short Stories  – will be published in the winter 2015 edition of award-winning short fiction magazine Scribble. Who is Rudolph Fentz? will be readers’ first insight into the world of Million Eyes, my trilogy of novels about a colossal time travel conspiracy. This story is based… Read more