2025 ROUNDUP

It’s that time again: December with a vengeance, and time to take stock my creative year. On the surface it feels like it was a quieter year compared to 2024, but that’s no bad thing. Fiction-wise, in 2025 I published three new short stories. At the start of the year, Her Little Ray Of Sunshine […]

World Fantasy Convention 2025

World Fantasy 2025 is coming. If you’re looking for me, this is where I’ll be…

Absolute Zero

If you’re suffering from the summer swelter, you might like me be slightly guiltily looking forward to the winter. Well, I have good news. Absolute Zero, a new anthology of cold-themed horror fiction is just around the corner, and I have grim little story in there called The Cold Case. The Cold Case is set […]

Blood In The Bricks

A little over a year ago I approached Ian Whates of NewCon Press about an idea I had for an anthology. Like many horror readers I’d been wholeheartedly enjoying the folk horror boom, but I’d started to notice diminishing returns in terms of the originality in the stories I was reading. At the same time, […]

BSFA award 2025 shortlist

The British Science Fiction Award shortlists for 2025 were just announced, and I’m beyond pleased to report that both Charlie Says and Nova Scotia vol2 are finalists in their categories. Being shortlisted for an award is always a major celebration, which means that I consider myself *incredibly* fortunate to have been somewhere on the BSFA […]

2024 roundup

Annual roundup of fiction what I published this year.

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 […]

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 […]

No More Heroes anthology

It’s said the golden age for music is whatever age you are when you first connect with it on a visceral, personal level. When the sounds and styles and images and personalities of the bands fuse with your crystalizing sense of self. You always remember the songs you fell in love with when you were […]