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
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)
