British Fantasy Society – Golden Jubilee
Hello folks. What's this? Three posts in a week?? Has the world gone mad?! Well yes, but don't expect this every week. Ever since my anger flamed last week, I've been more determined to make steps, little and often, to get to where I want to go. Although my anger has...
Change in the winds
Today, I am angry. There, I said it. Phew. When I first started this new blog, I told myself that I’d keep all my posts super professional and writing-focused – no treating this like a personal blog and writing my actual thoughts and feelings. After all, this is my...
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
Hello folks, long time, no talk. I wanted to do a 'Happy New Year!' post but then we all caught covid, and then it was back to work and back to the grind and by the time I had the headspace to actually write another blog, well, as you can tell, it's now mid-Feb and I...
British Fantasy Award Winners
I’m a bit late to the party with this, but ‘better late than never’ as my old gaffer used to say. FantasyCon took place on 26th September 2021 in Birmingham, and as part of this, the annual British Fantasy Award winners were announced. I so wish I’d been able to go,...
Confessions of an unpublished author
There's something I'm slowly realising as I get older – time for writing doesn't magically appear, you have to make it yourself. Here's my next confession – all through my twenties I believed that one day I'd be a published author...but I got incredibly frustrated...
A box of…what?
I have a confession to make. I don't like any of my Box of Stories books. There, I said it. I was umming and ahhing over whether to post this so soon after my initial post, where I was so excited to dive right into the books I'd received. But after battling my way...