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
The Best of British Fantasy 2019 (NewCon Press) is now available, and there’s a launch event coming up for celebration purposes. It’ll be a great excuse to pick up a copy of the book and get lots of writers to sign it, and I hear a rumour that there will be free drinks and nibbles… Continue reading Best Witch Party
The Loosening Skin is on the shortlist for the Arthur C Clarke award this year: I have proof. Congratulations to the other shortlistees (amazing company to be in!) – and thanks to everyone who has taken the time to congratulate me; I very much appreciate it, and the support for my short novel of hunting… Continue reading Short and Sweet (Understatement)
Here’s the cover for the Best of British SF 2018 (published by NewCon Press) and there’s my name on it! Territory: Blank, a story that first appeared in Interzone last year, will be included among stories by some incredible writers. I’ll let you know once the book is out there. I think the official launch… Continue reading I’ll Be SF Dreaming
