Aaaaaand Skein Island is out there. Published today by Titan, it completes a circle for me. It’s the first fully speculative fiction novel I wrote, and I threw everything at it, thinking it would never get published because I’d never read anything like it. I was wrong, and the brilliant Dog Horn Publishing picked it… Continue reading Heroic island-visiting time
The Beauty has now been published in mass market paperback in the US and Canada, and I was sent a few copies by Titan Books to stick on my own bookshelf. It’s a handy, smaller version of my mushrooms. It’s very strange to think of it popping up in all sorts of places again, like… Continue reading Mass Market Beauty Burst
Mother’s Milk books, a small press that publishes a range of beautiful books, have put together four books so far in their fantasy anthology series The Forgotten and the Fantastical. Four, did I say? But wait! Here comes number five and I’m really pleased to have a story in it. (Great cover, too…) It’s not… Continue reading Forgotten and Fantastical (and the big 100)
Lawks. I’ve turned into a Dickens character through the excitement of winning a Subjective Chaos Kind of Award! The Loosening Skin won the Best Fantasy work at the 2019 award ceremony, held in Dublin during WorldCon weekend, and my editor picked up my beautiful pebble prize for me. I’m really looking forward to getting it… Continue reading Subjective kind of celebrating
I’ve been doing a fair bit of celebrating recently due to award nominations for The Loosening Skin, and a high point was toasting the book (with wine, not on a fork) at the Arthur C Clarke awards last week. Amazing. Enormous thank you to everyone who cheered me on, and congratulations to Tade Thompson for… Continue reading Cover and Toasts
An Invite to Eternity has been fully funded (and then some), and that means I’ll have a short story in that anthology! Thanks to everyone who clubbed together to get this made, and thanks to Calque Press for asking me to be involved. I’m really looking forward to seeing the book in print. Speaking of… Continue reading A parsec and eternity
It has been a huge and welcome surprise to find The Loosening Skin on the shortlist for the John W Campbell Memorial Award, along with works by some of my favourite writers. The winner will be announced at the end of June, but I’ll just enjoy these few weeks of being on the list, and… Continue reading A shiny invite dipped in blood
