Coming soon…

2024 has been a pretty good year for publishing short fiction, and keeping the momentum going, I’ve a few more lined up for 2025 already. Boreal, an anthology of taiga/forest-focused horror stories is due out from Strange Wilds Press in February. My contribution, a gentle folk horror piece set in the ancient Caledonian Forest in […]

It Takes a Community

Somehow it’s the last day of August and it feels like an ending. September always feels like kicking on into Autumn for sure, but it’s also time to close the chapter on all the things we’ve been working on this year that culminated in the latest Glasgow edition of the World Science Fiction Convention this […]

Gallus

The Glasgow SF Writers’ Circle has a new book out. GALLUS is a celebration of Glaswegian writing published to coincide with the World Science Fiction Convention which begins here in Glasgow this week. I’ve been a member of GSFWC since I started writing way back in the 1990s. It’s an amazing, supportive community, and an […]

Worldcon 2024

The World Science Fiction Convention is back in Glasgow from Aug 8th to 12th. Almost 20 years after the last one and years in the planning by a horde of supremely wonderful volunteers, this event is shaping up to be an AWESOME festival of science fiction, fantasy, and everything in between. During the five days […]

Borrowed Breath

Hey, so in amongst all the book stuff, there’s a new Disappointed Skeptics Club album out too! As usual it was written and recorded during February Album Writing Month, and I’ve spent the time since tweaking it. But there are no more tweaks to be made. It is done. So, the album is called Borrowed […]

Nova Scotia vol 2

As the 2024 edition of the World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow approaches, there’s been a lot going on to welcome our global visitors and wave the flag for the science fiction, fantasy and horror we produce here in Scotland. One of the things I’ve been involved with is Nova Scotia vol 2: New Speculative […]

BSFA award 2024 shortlist

You don’t get many days like last Thursday. I mean, it was February 29th, so obviously… but, aside from that, it was the official release day for Charlie Says. And it was the day that Andrew Wilson and I finalised the Table of Contents for our Nova Scotia 2 anthology, which we are very excited […]

Kind Words

As a writer, any time someone says something nice about your work, you get a little glow. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been in the game, there are always inner insecurities and a little bit of external validation adds a welcome handful of kindling to the campfire of self belief and pushes the darkness […]

Charlie Says

I have a new book out soon. It’s a short, snappy novella about ritualising risk and courting controversy to attain the things we want, and it’s called Charlie Says. That title might sound familiar to readers of a certain age. Was anyone who grew up in the 1970s and 80s not scarred by the public […]

2023 ROUNDUP

This year ended up being a productive one, all things considered. I definitely feel like I’ve rediscovered the ability to get into a regular creative routine again. Partly that’s due to returning to working in the office two days a week, reclaiming the potential for cafe writing that’s lost when I work from home. It […]