Something Wicked this Way Came
July 28, 2023I’ve been quiet. As many of you know, approximately five minutes after A Diet of Death was supposed to be launched, I terminated my publishing contract. Sometimes, the hardest decisions are the best ones to make: I know I did the right thing in getting out, even though it meant giving up my 3-book deal. I won’t go into the details, except to say that I have filed a lengthy report to Writer Beware. I’ve had time to lick my wounds; take some time out to complete my Creative Writing MA, and finish two new standalone Literary books. I have…
Launch Day: Sunday 16th October!
Please join us online on Sunday 16th October for the live launch of A Diet of Death! Please join us online on Sunday 16th October for the live launch of A Diet of Death! The event is free and will…
A little help from my friends
Last week I wrote about how I’d fallen into endless rabbit holes of research and wasn’t getting any real writing done. Luckily this week an angel popped up to help, in the form of organising a Zoom write-in. The timing…
The endless rabbit holes of building backstory
I’ve told you this before: I’m doing a creative writing MA right now. I don’t say this for attention or applause or any kind of accolade; I say it because the module I’m currently working on keeps insisting we do…
Invisibility Cloak
One of my fellow 2022 debut authors wrote a long Twitter thread today about the struggle of being small. In this context, ‘small’ means ‘we are published traditionally, but with a small, independent publisher, and not one of the few…
It’s been a while
It’s not so much that I had little to say; just little time to say it. My MA is progressing well. I am at the beginning of a new module: Writing the Novel, in which the idea for my latest…
It’s Publication Day!
Today, March 15th 2022, I woke up as a published Novelist! (I know novelist makes me sound all pretentious, but I couldn’t just say ‘published’ or ‘author’ because today wasn’t the first for those. Today marks the release of my…
It’s the final countdown!
With only days until the official release of Dear Isobel, things have got busy around here. I did my first Instagram live interview last night, with the lovely, bubbly, Shelly Mack. You can watch it here: Shelly Mack Interview. I…
Nothing much to say
I’m aware I’m overdue with blogging, once again. Often, life comes along, or, sometimes, death, and last week saw me travelling across half of Ireland, the full width of Wales, and down the length of England, to attend my aunt’s…
Spring promises
I’ve been gone a while. Things piled up and blogging seemed low on the priority list. Today sees me enjoying the end of a week off from teaching and catching up on MA reading, whilst also pausing to catch breath.…
Ticking along
It’s so cold here today I’m typing fast to keep my hands warm… …which is good, since I’ve slacked off on my blog for the past couple of weeks. I’ve been mad-busy working on the fourth novel, prepping for a…