British Fantasy Awards shortlist 2025

In what feels like a really rather wonderful episode of deja vu (see my previous post), the British Fantasy Award shortlists for 2025 have been announced today, and … both Charlie Says and Nova Scotia vol2 are finalists in their categories. Again! This feeling never gets old, and I’m exceptionally grateful to everyone who voted […]

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.

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 […]

Charlie says…hands off!

One of the risks of being the kind of writer who has more ideas than they can focus on at any one time (and that pretty much is *all* writers, right?) is that sooner or later one of your really good back burner ideas will get picked up and used by someone else. Their treatment […]