

Review: Trying To Be So Quiet (James Everington)
A small, beautiful and haunting novella about love and loss by James Everington. The narrator is surrounded by the blankness of extreme...


Online launch for The Unheimlich Manoeuvre!
Suffer from Monday blues? Here's an invitation to the online launch of my book next Sunday evening, hosted by the fabulous Alex Davis....


Fantasycon invitation
Something lovely. This week I was invited to be a PANELLIST at Fantasycon! Woo! From 10am-11am, on Saturday 24th September, in the Royal...


Review: The Grieving Stones (Gary McMahon)
Gary McMahon's The Grieving Stones is a small book that packs a big punch. It's soaked in atmospheric folk horror; the setting of Grief...


Edge-Lit launch - The Unheimlich Manoeuvre
On the 16th of July at 11am, I launched my first collection. It was a strange and beautiful moment. Slightly unnerving to be reading an...


The Unheimlich Manoeuvre - my first short story collection!
I'm proud and terrified and excited, all at once. My debut collection, The Unheimlich Manoeuvre launches at Edge-Lit in Derby this July!...


European Monsters: A Review
European Monsters (eds. Margret Helgadottir and Jo Thomas). Fox Spirit Press, 2014. From the very first impressions of this book, from...


Creative August
It's been a rather wonderful August, a time for writing, photographing, reading, thinking and planning. Based on the relative simple...


Scarecrows interrupt plotting...
Monumentally distracted from writing today by the extraordinary Durrow Scarecrow Festival. I'd meant to go for a few years now and never...


Time for a resurrection...
Looking back, it strikes me as hilariously optimistic that my first ever voyage into writing was a novel, an unnamed opus I vaguely...