Author
I’m really excited to see my micro piece On Sunday, you wake up as a Firebird published in the summer edition of The Citron Review. Thanks so much to lovely editor JR Walsh, and to Smokelong Quarterly, where this piece began in the March Micro Marathon ’25, and then ended up winning the ‘up to 250-word…
Over at Inkfish Magazine and Press, we were incredibly excited to learn that Cornwall in Short has been shortlisted in the Holyer an Gof Publishers’ Awards 2025! Congratulations to all our amazing authors! The Awards Ceremony will be held on Saturday July 5th: https://gorsedhkernow.org.uk/shortlist-2025/
I was over the moon that The Cincinnati Review published my micro piece The Meat Ration! Thanks so much to editor Kate Jayroe, and especially to Smokelong Quarterly, where this piece began in the March Micro Marathon ’25, and then somehow won the up to 400-word story competition at the end of the wonderfully fun…
I was so thrilled when my publisher at Barbican Press, Martin Goodman, called to tell me I’d been shortlisted for the Scottish First Book of the Year (Saltire) Award. I travelled to Hoy and wrote The Monster’s Wife out of my fascination with Shelley’s novel, with Orkney as place and because of my sense of the developing…
I had a lot of fun going in the little Tardis space-booth at Manchester’s Media City and doing this radio interview with Good Morning Scotland about The Monster’s Wife and the Scottish first book of the year award. My bit starts at 2:42 or so. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lssz2
I was thrilled to wake up to this lovely article by Alistair Munro of The Scotsman: A novel dubbed a sequel to Frankenstein, that tells the story of the monster’s bride, was inspired by a trip to Orkney, the author has said. Kate Horsley, whose debut novel The Monster’s Wife is shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year…