From the Neck Up is off and away into the world, and I’ve been hanging around in a few places chatting about it. You can find me over at Tor Nightfire talking about how the act of putting a short story collection together changed my perception of the stories themselves. And I was also at… Continue reading Paper skies
Lots of From the Neck Up: It’s great to think that the collection is out in the world as from today. Forgive me if I show off my starred Publishers Weekly review one last time with a link here. Huge thank you to Titan Books for publishing five of my books, all with wonderful matching… Continue reading Neck and Neck
Look! It’s the last of the Eden Book Society novellas, out now in the wild: I loved being part of the Eden Book Society project, recreating the horrors of the 1970s. If you’ve missed it so far, you can find out about it here. And there were even audio versions with an introduction by Charlie… Continue reading Lesser spotted things
September! Hopefully the season of being able to get some writing done. But it’s also the season for new posts and podcasts and interviews and reviews to try to get the word out there about my latest publications, starting with the US release of The Secret Life of Fungi today. I will be on radio… Continue reading September rundown
I’m very excited and quite nervous about tonight, when at 8pm UK time I’ll be making my debut in Second Life as a giant skull-headed flower in order to chat about the books and take questions from the audience. Come along! Or if you’re not on Second Life you can follow along on YouTube right… Continue reading Visit the inn and the ice age
At last! My brain has woken up a bit and I’ve been chucking ideas around for some new projects. It must be summertime. New things start to sprout. Meanwhile, the old projects are out there growing with a sneaky stealth that makes me even more proud of them. Like this happiness spurt – a starred… Continue reading Growth
The plants are growing and before I know it new things will be in the world. At least two of them will be books of mine, including the US edition of The Secret Life of Fungi and my short story collection From the Neck Up. Those are both due in September, so I’m watching them… Continue reading Mining and pineapple
I couldn’t turn down a recent opportunity to write a bit of flash fiction based on the prompt ‘Toxic’, provided by Nico and Ben of The Tiny Bookcase podcast. We all wrote stories for the prompt and took turns reading them, then did a bit of critical discussion about our masterpieces that included chatting about… Continue reading Tiny Toxic Christmas
Today you can ask me, and nearly all of Unsung Stories, anything over at Reddit. r/Fantasy will be hosting us all day (well, from 12pm), and in the absence of being able to all stand in a large room together yet, I’m very pleased to do this as the next best thing. If only there… Continue reading Short and long term home-talking
I made magnificently sticky easter-egg embedded blondies this Easter, and now, on the other side of the sugar rush, I’ll just give the blog a quick update on a few cool things: The new issue of Shoreline of Infinity contains a SF not-first-but-last contact story of mine called More Sea Creatures to See. It’s got… Continue reading Beyond the infinite
