A bit of news that made me drink wine and dance around the kitchen last night – here’s The Loosening Skin on a very exciting shortlist: Starburst’s Brave New Words Award is for someone who produces break-out literature that is new and bold. We are looking to highlight exciting work that breaks new ground in the… Continue reading Brave New Escapes
At the end of last year I had a bit of a run of writing short stories for anthologies, and over the past week two of the finished books arrived on my doorstep. They’re beautifully put together, and it’s great to be involved in collections that have had such clear and exciting concepts behind them.… Continue reading A prompt arrival at Beastly Creek
I wrote Dark Shells, a story about an older woman who tells secrets to the river that runs through her Lincolnshire village, for the Unsung Stories anthology This Dreaming Isle, and I got to read a little bit of it aloud at the launch party at the start of this year, which was a lot… Continue reading Shelled and chaotic fantasies
If you’ve read The Loosening Skin and you’ve been wondering what everybody else is thinking about the weirdest bits (including me) then the latest podcast from the Time For Cakes and Ale team might be the right place to go – they’ve had an indepth discussion about it for their Book Club and I popped… Continue reading Cakes and Ale and Skin and Apples
I got stuck into the new year. Or in the new year. Help. Either way, I’ve had a couple of ideas in strange directions and have been working away on those on the writing front, and that means I forgot to blog. Here’s a bit of a catch-up: The Loosening Skin has had a fine… Continue reading Catch-up Carryall
Happy new year! And happy new reading, too, with all the fresh new books that hopefully have come your way and are lined up in your future. I hope you find the time and space to read them all. I have to admit I struggled to read as much as I wanted to in 2018,… Continue reading Reading in 2018: Retreating and Regrouping
This time last year* I wrote a blog post about being a duck in the mist. I had spent 2017 paddling furiously under the water while looking serene and unruffled to onlookers. Lots of writing projects had been completed but not released. 2018 was going to be the year of getting those writing projects out… Continue reading 2018: The Year of the Multicoloured Splat
