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, […]

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 […]

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 […]