Cymera 2025
The Cymera festival in Edinburgh is always a highlight of the year! So many fabulous authors ribbing shoulders This year, I will be on The Good Fight panel with the amazing Sebastien de Castell on Sunday June 8th, 2025.
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BSFA Award 2025
I am Delighted to see that I've had work included on the British Science Fiction Association awards longlist . Novel: The Last Shield published by Angry Robot Books Collection: Gallus, with my short story Gods of the Deepwood included Short Story: Birth of a Demonologist, published in Grimdark Magazine #37
The Last Shield Soundtrack
As part of the British Fantasy Society's fundraising auction for Save The Children, the mighty Allen Stroud put up an item that I ended up winning the bid for - a musical composition! After some discussion, he went off and composed a special theme for my novel, The Last Shield. Wrap your ears around this!
The Last Shield is Released!
It is here! The Last Shield is finally available to buy at all your usual fine book emporiums! I'm am beyond excited for you all to meet Briar, and have a blast with my book. Amazon US Amazon UK Barnes and Noble Waterstones Angry Robot Books
The Last Shield Audiobook
It has finally arrived! The audiobook version of The Last Shield is now up on Audible for preorder: Audible.com Audible.co.uk
The Last Shield author copies have arrived!
AHHHHHHHHHH My author copies of The Last Shield have arrived here in Glasgow from Angry Robot Books. What lovely, shiny title text and gilded name! And also author copies of my jaw-dropping special edition from The Broken Binding!
Gallus: a Glasgow Science Fiction Writer's Circle anthology
COVER REVEAL: New GSFWC anthology launching at Worldcon in Glasgow this August, feating one of mine: Gods of the Deepwood Periodically the GWSFC produces a publication to showcase our range and wonder. In the last few years we’ve had Thirty Years of Rain for our thirtieth anniversary and Flotation Device to raise money during the pandemic and many others previously including, for the first Glasgow Worldcon in 1995, Shipbuilding. Well, this year there is another Glasgow Worldcon and we have decided to produce a new anthology for that. It is called Gallus . Gallus is a Scots word meaning bold, daring or high-spirited, and often used to describe the people of Glasgow. We feel this equally describes the members of the GSFWC and their writing and we hope you will read our anthology and agree with us. Gallus contains 25 stories by current members, a snapshot of what the Circle and Glasgow speculative writing is producing in the space year 2024. There are writers who’ve been members f...