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April 12th, 2023

Spec Fic for Newbies has been out now for 2 weeks and is doing great, so Val (my co-author) and I joined Lauren at Horrortree to geek out some more about the porousness of subgenres, how they're like rivers (Val's great simile!), how we created the table of contents, what's on tap for the second volume. You can read the transcript at the link above or find the video here . 

Eclectic Dreams Milford anthology news

The Milford SF Writers' Workshop has compiled a new anthology to benefit the Milford Bursary for SF Writers of Colour, Eclectic Dreams. I'm honored to have a story in the collection: "Mama Leaf", about a desperate woman in the colonial backwoods who turns to dark power to protect herself from her husband's wrath. But what is super exciting is the fact that we got a previously unpublished story by Neil Gaiman (!!!) for the book; he attended Milford over 20 years ago and is generous enough to stil...

Spec Fic for Newbies earns a #1 New Release banner!

On the Amazon US site, Spec Fic for Newbies got a #1 New Release banner the day after it was published! I'm pretty chuffed about that!

Spec Fic for Newbies is HERE!

​My new book, co-written with Val Nolan, is HERE! Today is publication day for Spec Fic for Newbies: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror! Always wanted to try your hand at, say, Steampunk or Military SF or Body Horror but aren't sure how to get started? Spec fic for Newbies is for you! Or maybe you're a more advanced writer who is finding they're stuck in the middle of a draft of an apocalyptic book that is going dystopic and unsure how to get unstuck?...

Chatting all things nerdy at the Coffee in Space podcast

Spec Fic for Newbies is out within a week, so Val (my co-author) and I joined Dan at the Coffee in Space podcast to nerd out about apocalyptic fiction and toilet paper, word count restrictions, the subjectivity of squicking people out, the permeability of subgenres, considering your audience and genre context, the fact that ancient humans weren't idiots, theme (which we cover in the book intro!), how our conscious and subconscious minds don't play together well, and having too many writing proje...

Talkin' about *How* I write over at The Real Writing Process podcast

Earlier this year I met Tom Pepperdine who runs The Real Writing Process podcast. It's a wonderful podcast that features writers talking about, well, their process. Usually authors do interviews when they're plugging their newest book and the questions mostly revolve around that particular book, how it got started, what it's about, etc. What's great about Tom's podcast is that he asks questions that get to the heart of how a writer works, what they do or don't do, and what rules they follow or ...

MCM London Comic Con panel (Sunday 30 Oct)

After being invited to be on a panel last year at Comic Con in London, this Sunday I get do it again! This time I'll be talking about BookTok with authors Travis Baldree and Tasha Suri. More info .

Nobody ruined your childhood

Every few months a new version or sequel or whatever of older IP (film, tv show, comics, whatevs) is released and certain people come out of the woodwork to raise holy hell (aka whine) about it. "They've ruined my childhood." "They've made it woke." "The writing is bad." (this last one isn't the writing, it's the fact that character X is now female or not white, etc., etc., but pointing to the writing is a way of pushing the blame somewhere else)

Fact is, if you were a kid when you first engaged ...

Notebooks: A Study

There isn't a writer alive (or one I know) that doesn't have a ridiculous collection of notebooks. Pretty ones given as gifts with the idea that they'd inspire you to write something just as beautiful.Travel notebooks purchased for that long train/plane/car journey to the Grand Canyon/London/Tokyo Disney so you could write about your experiences and pass your insights down to your descendants so they would know your poetic wanderlust.Sturdy, writerly notebooks chosen because they made you look s...

BFS 50th Anniversary: A Panel on Feminism in SFF (June 25, 2022)

On Saturday, I am joining  Teika Marija Smits and Lucy A McLaren on a panel at 10.15am GMT to discuss Feminism in SFF as part of the British Fantasy Society's 50th Anniversary/Golden Jubilee event. This is one part of a full day of online events that you can join via Zoom. More info on my panel  here  or click here to register for £5 the day's events.