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  • Contest and Play Time

    Hi everyone, So, fellow author and Scotland based Jenny Frame and I are both running competitions through this month’s BSB UK newsletter. And, myself and several other authors are going to be at Manchester Pride and at ELLCon this month, so you should come hang out with us! Here is…

  • Book Box Day: number four

    Book Box Day is a big thing in our house. There’s something special about getting to hold in your hand the culmination of hours and hours of hard work. From the kernel of an idea, to the proposal, to the arc design, to sitting down every single night to get…

  • A tale, coming soon.

    I love fairy tales. And I especially love remakes of fairy tales, spins that twist the original into something new. With that in mind, I sat down to write my own fairy tale, about fairy tales. And I’m loving it. It’s a lot of research, and I keep stopping to…

  • 5* Review for Fury’s Bridge

    I don’t tend to read my reviews, as I’m too thin skinned. The last bad one I read kept me from writing for months. But it’s great when I hear about a review that has come in, like the one below posted on Goodreads: Wow! When I first heard the…

  • Highlights from GCLS 2018

    Two takeaways from the event: “Life is short, and life is long. There is no time for bad books.” Ruth Sternglantz “Have you tried the cheese? It’s excellent.” Barbara Anne Wright “It is our responsibility as authors to shed light on dark things, and to educate as much as we…

  • Getting Ready to Spin

    Super excited to show off the cover for Spinning Tales, out in spring 2019. Maggie McShay wants a little magic in her life. Something more than the drab existence of going to work and coming home to a cat that barely tolerates her. When she spontaneously replies to a want…

  • A mini me. In stick form.

    Let me introduce you to the stick skinny version of me…

  • This very special thing happened…

    A few years ago, I told my partner that I had an idea for a trilogy of books. The idea had been bouncing around in my head for a while. (Years) But the thing is, I’d started writing a number of novels, only to get bored and bail at the…

  • Around the circle we go…

    My wife reminded me that it’s mental health awareness week. We often talk about the stigma of mental health issues, so we’ve both decided to do a blog about it. Because if no one talks about it, there’s no chance in hell we’ll reduce the stigma. And feeling alone really…

  • It’s available!

    Yes, I know Fury’s Death just came out, but I’m still excited to tell you that Chosen, my next book, is now available for pre-order. This one was fun to write and pushed me out of my comfort zone. I hope you like it. (Released in September) Climate change moved…