Prepare to have your eyes dazzled; it’s the cover of my new novel – You can read a bit about the book and my feelings about the magnificent cover (which sort of gives away how I feel about it really) over at Fantasy Hive. Great big thanks to Sam Chivers for the perfect image… Continue reading Cover that Greensmith
This is such a great idea – illustrator Marta Oliehoek-Samitowska has interviewed a selection of horror authors about their favourite horror films and then drawn their portraits. Eye portraits, in extreme close-up, which shows her vast skill, but also feels a bit unnerving, like staring into some very dark places. Having said that, all the… Continue reading Horrific Eyes
I’m so pleased to be able to kick off 2020 with a short story in the latest volume of Swan River Press’ Uncertainties series. Uncertainties: Volume IV was edited by Tim Jarvis and contains the most amazing line-up. You can click here to take a look and pre-order. My story, Reflection, Refraction, Dispersion is a… Continue reading Uncertain Short Reflections
Forgive the dinosaur-flavoured title, but a friend bought me the Jurassic Park board game for Christmas and I’ve been a velociraptor for the past few days. The voracious snapping rang a bell when I sat down in front of this screen about an hour ago and started looking back through my records at the past… Continue reading Reading in 2019: Raptor-Snapping Good
This time last year I wrote a blog post about how I’d not managed to get as much writing done as I would have liked, and how I had plans to write something big and serious throughout 2019. So I’m pleased to say, in this review of the year, that I did that. I wrote… Continue reading 2019: The Year of Intensive Nesting
Cover reveals are great, particularly when they involve one like this: Just amazing. It’s for the US release of The Loosening Skin in June 2020. There’s some information and an excerpt over at Tor.Com. There should also be a new novelette to go with this version, as there have been for all my Titan… Continue reading New Skin and Pictures
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
