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Invisible City

I’m pleased to announce that Invisible City is now available on Kindle:

Persson Catao is making a map. A map of the city where he was born and where he spent his youth fighting against a brutal regime.

A city that never existed.

After a daring escape, Persson built a new life for himself and raised a family. But unlike his comrades, he chose not to forget what had happened. And now one of them has come looking for him.

Invisible City is a novelette about trauma, memory, and one last chance to cha...

Twitchy

Since my updatelast month, I’ve managed to complete a few projects and get them off my plate, at least for now. The bad news is I’ve taken on at least as many new ones. I’m twitchy as anything running all these projects through my head, balancing all these new ideas and the oh so little time I have to work on them.

The main piece of news is that I’m releasing my first independent publication a little earlier than expected. Liquid City is still scheduled for released in March, but I remembered...

Why Autistic People should still Research Autistic Characters

I’m planning the – as yet titleless – sequel to Liquid City and honestly I’m itching to start writing it and forcing myself to at least have a semblance of a plot before I do because otherwise I’ll write a few thousand words and it will all end in tears. So I’ve started using Evernote properly, doing heaps of research and hoping a plot will somehow emerge.So I’m reading about the history of paint colours (Victoria Finlay’sColour: Travels through the Paintbox is fascinating, go read it), water...

Sale: ‘Puppetry’ to Accessing the Future

I’m very pleased to announce that my story ‘Puppetry’ will be included in Futurefire.net’s forthcoming anthologyAccessing the Future. It’s a story about disability, terraforming and war and *drops voice to a whisper* I’m actually quite proud of it.

The full table of contents has been released, along with the cover art, *points*, and I’m very much looking forward to reading the rest of the anthology when it’s released in July.

January Update

We’re a few weeks into the New Year and I’ve been busy writing and editing. Fortunately I’ve been easing myself back into the day job with some four day weeks, because otherwise I think the competing deadlines would have got the better of me. There are some projects I can’t talk about just yet (stay tuned, stay tuned) but there are plenty of others happening:

I’m about halfway through what’s probably the penultimate round of edits on Liquid City and, excitingly, work has started on the cover....

2015!

After torrential rain yesterday, I woke up to skies like this:

I’m taking it as a sign.

I haven’t made resolutions for a while; they fuel my perfectionist tendencies in counterproductive ways, but I did want a sense of direction so over the past few days I’ve been making a 101 in 1001 list(and managed to drag a few people into it along with me – sorry ’bout that). You can see the full list over at my Day Zero Project account: in summary, over then next just-under-3-years I want to write lots, r...

Am here to give my testimony of how I became a Yule Cat…

This is a quick piece of flash fiction written for the European Monsters writing prompt. Enjoy!

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Am here to share my testimony of how I became a yule cat. Apparently you have need for answers about what I have done, because you humans seek such abstractionsbefore you seek clear water and the warmth of shelter, and then act with surprise when you meet your end.

You are hoping, all of you, with your wide eyes and your fearful excitement, for a story of transformation, a story that began wi...

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2014 in review

2014 isn’t quite over, but with the last week of work already underway, it’s a good time to take a look back, evaluate how things went, reposition myself, make new plans. I’ve been doing this every year for a while, and years tend to fall into a familiar shape: the enthusiasm and exciting plans pushing me along at the start, a dip in the middle often spurring a bout of writers’ block, and then at the end being able to untangle at least some of the mess and make something new.

2014 was the very...

Writing Process Blog Hop

Grace tagged me for this a very long time ago, and then life happened. I think it’s done the rounds thoroughly in the meantime so I won’t tag anyone specifically, but feel free to pick it up if it interests you.

1) What are you working on?

A short story called “Puppetry”, written specifically for a call for submissions. It’s about terraforming, war, disability and using negative assumptions about you to your own ends. The military aspects are a bit of a struggle, and I’m writing to a tight dead...