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Granite Noir 2024: Unsettling, Unnerving, Sublime
This week, I’m winging my way to Aberdeen to take part in a panel at Granite Noir 2024. Exploring the ‘Unsettling, Unnerving, [and] Sublime’, we’ll be talking bodies, weirdness, and the dark, twisty things at the heart of creepy storytelling. Here’s the event description: Three writers whose books leave you with that brilliant creeped out…
Current WIP – Faeries & Goblins
As scheduled as ever, a week or two after finishing the final draft of my third novel in August 2023, I began my next project. My baby daughter! The last few months have been a whirlwind of giggles, milk, sibling politics, and baby poop. But I also spent December yearning for the next story; drawing…
How did I get here?
I’ve seen lots of writers, poets, librettists, and authors in the writing community share their ‘Writing Journey’, so here’s mine! At least what I remember of it. It’s been a bit of a whirlwind, for sure. And it’s only when I see it all in a list that I realise how far I’ve come, and…
JOURNAL #26 – The next thing
Here I am again. At the beginning of a new story. Not just a new book to write, but a new fictional world to inhabit for a year or two. And I can’t decide. I’ve long wanted to do something with the sea. For years, I’ve drifted back to tales of selkies, mermaids, abandoned lighthouses….
Journal #25 – Bumblebee jasper
In my last post, I wrote about how the last couple of months had been a time of transformation. Wrapping up novels, house renovations, body changes, and a new baby.
Even one of those is enough to send your head in a spin. But all of them together? That’s true disorientation.
So what life chapter am I in now?
Stories for Runa
I’ve been quiet, I know. But the last thing I’ve been is still.
Over the last two months…
THE END
So that’s it. It’s done. That time has come.
It’s the end.
How to manage the slow pace of publishing
Having a book published, from writing that first word to seeing it on a bookshelf, takes literally years. Years and years. So what can you do to keep busy during this time?
GRIMDARK: Early Mothtown Review
It’s at this point in the publishing process when I wear an almost permanent grimace. Early review time. It can be shocking. It can be brilliant. It can be brutal.
And we have to eat it all up, word by word.
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