SFINCS Finalist Interview – Nicole Willson
Time for the second in my series of author interviews with the finalists of the SFINCS contest! Continuing now with Nicole Willason, author of The Shadow Dancers of Brixton Hill, a carnivalesque historical horror that I thoroughly enjoyed myself.The Shadow Dancers of...
SFINCS Finalist Interview – Jillian Maria
As promised in my introduction to SFINCS here, I'm now kicking off a series of author interviews with the finalists with the contest! Starting, appropriately I think (as you must be curious), with Jillian Maria, author of Curiouser And..., a dark sapphic...
All About SFINCS
You may have heard, but I had the fantastic fortune and honour that my Blood Scouts novella, Oksy, Come Home, was chosen as a finalist in this year's SFINCS competition. SFINCS is a marvellous initiative to highlight indie novellas in the speculative fiction sphere,...
My Top 20 Reads of 2024
We’re into the New Year, so I’m now completely done with list of reviews of every book I read in 2024. According to my list, I got through 126 books this year, which is somewhat down on the previous two years, but it had been my aim to read a bit less, so I kind of...
Thoughts for Finishing the Year, with Free Books
We’re partway into December so I feel it’s a fine enough time to wish you a happy holiday season, and essentially offer my end-of-year updates, as well as a little treat. And we might as well start with that treat.Free/Three Books Off the back of releasing Drown Deep...
Maps of the Rocc: Exploring The Saints Mire
With Drown Deep’s release just around the corner (October 22nd, if you missed it!), today I’m sharing the maps from the Blood Scouts books so far, so I can give you a little detail about the setting. I’ve been geekishly into drawing maps since I was a kid, but these...
Introducing Drown Deep – The Blood Scouts #2
This week saw the reveal of the cover, and full details, for The Blood Scouts Book 2, which I can now announce is titled Drown Deep. Following on around about where However Many Must Die leaves off, it’s a frenetic return to the Rocc with a hefty chunk of lore and an...
Fantasy of the World War Era
Since I started writing However Many Must Die, I’ve taken quite an interest in World War 1-era fantasy, though hunting it out, and seeing other people asking about it, often seems to produce scant results. With that in mind I thought it might be interesting to share...
One Review Post to Rule 2024
You may be aware that I read a lot of books. So many that I often forget to talk about them until I'm lumbered with making a big list at the end of the year. This is a shame because I'd like to talk more about and share the things I've enjoyed. This year, Glorious...