Antidote to 2016

Exciting Moments of Last Year #antidoteto2016

A year of performances and events for me: I’ll be looking back in detail at 2016 over the coming weeks.  Thanks to collaborators, readers, accomplices, band members, and fellow scribblers. 

Flowers of Sin: Mail on Sunday’s Books of the Year list
Finishing first draft of Lawless & the House of Electricity
Forbidden Planet, launch of Flowers of Sin
Morning Star review, + lovely reviews from bloggers
Flowers of Sin Portsmouth launch
Esopus Magazine collaborative conversation on George Cochrane’s Lost in Music, Richard Nonas, Tod Lippy



Performances Bookish & Musical
DarkFest
Dark City launch
Day of the Dead
Dark Songs
Dark Victorians 
Premature Articulation
Valentine’s Day Massacre
Murder at the Theatre
The Art of Crime, Hampshire Libraries talks
The News interview
CSI Portsmouth: interviewing JS Law and Diana Bretherick
That’s Solent TV interview
Interviewing Kassassin Street
Interviewing Lorraine Bowen
Interviewing Joe Black
Glastonwick
Beside the Birdbath
Philip Jeays‘ Christmas Bash
Open Ealing: Noel Le Bon & Jamie West
Front Room Words @Aurora
Petworth PoPuP: Radio KWG, Philip Jeays, Jamie West
Harting Roundhouse
JS Law’s launch of #Tenacity paperback at Blackwell’s
VH Leslie’s launch: Bodies of Water
Created in Portsmouth Art Trail
Doodle Club drawing my characters



Events
Writing Retreats with Sarah Salway & SJ Butler
Bloody Scotland
Ferry Tales Workshop – Maggie Sawkins
Erotic Writing Workshop – Tessa Ditner
Authors CC XI dinner at Lord’s
CrimeFest, Bristol

Books of the Year

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
Viral, Helen FitzGerald
Bodies of Water, VH Leslie
Risk Wise, Polly Morland
Reclaiming Epicurus, Luke Slattery
Do No Harm, Henry Marsh
William Armstrong, Magician of North, Henrietta Heald

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