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Judge’s comments on The Bog Mermaid
Here are the delightful comments from Elizabeth Bradfield, the judge of the Quill Prose Award (the one Mermaid just won!) What does a bog contain? Water, layer upon layer of sphagnum, darkness, cold; things preserved in that airless chill beyond what light and air would allow. So the past burbles into the present, and currents…
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The Bog Mermaid wins Quill Prose Prize
Excited to announce that The Bog Mermaid has won the Quill Prose Award 2022, run by Red Hen Press There won’t be a publication, we couldn’t agree terms on the contract, but still, a prize is a prize. Read about the book itself here Read about searching for the right place to set the book…
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Air: Sylphs, Spirits and Swan Maidens
My latest publication! buy it here: I couldn’t make the launch, which although on line was at 2am in the morning, so I recorded a reading of the first page or so. Here it is. my creature of the air, is nothing like the cover image. I had something more like this in mind, but…
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Writing the Past: The Bog Mermaid
Video from the Arachne Press Writing the Past event for Hither Green Festival 2019 at Manor House Library. An extract from the 1926 thread of this novel.
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Callout for pre publication reviewers
So, experimenting with new stuff, my forthcoming book, The Dowry Blade (February 2016) is on NetGalley, a review site for librarians, bookshop owners, book bloggers and professional reviewers. If that is YOU, you can download a review PDF here. It is UNPROOFED, ok, so no comments about typos!
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Once more into print… Clockwise
Now, anyone who had anything to do with Solstice Shorts last year will know how much I like a good time theme. So I was delighted to find SolarWyrm‘s Latchkey Tales and their current project, Clockwise, a series of journals focussed around different times of day: this time Midnight Blues. So I sent them a…
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Latest Liars’ League gig
So, as some of you know I’ve had several stories read at Liars’ League, and this happened again recently, for their Slings & Arrows event. Hurrah for Liars’ League! A version of The King’s Champion, minus the subplot and now entitled Kassell for the place the story is set, (Kassel, Germany – birthplace of the…
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LGBT History month – LoSoCo
LoSoCo is what I’ve always known as Lewisham College. I did a reading there on Thursday for LGBT History Month. Here are a couple of snippets. (Apologies for the background noise – it’s the air-conditioning.) Holiday Romance, in which Melanie goes on holiday with her mother and allows her imagination to run riot. Baby Pink/…
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The Historical Birthday-Tea Party 20th February
Here we go: A Woman of Mystery…don’t know when her birthday was, don’t know who she is, beyond she wrote a book Either is Love which explores the life of a woman who first has a lesbian relationship and then a heterosexual one. Published in 1937. I have a vague recollection of having read this…
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