Writer
Reading from Dirty Boy at Eastercon, Belfast, 2025 (in the style of someone summarising quarterly sales figures at a regional sales conference).
‘You are now reading DIRTY BOY, the manuscript you just found stashed inside a chest freezer in the burnt-out sex dungeon. You will soon wish you are not reading DIRTY BOY, that you had left well alone, kept away from the story, let destiny here flourish only for the others, the many down here and the few who remain on the surface.’
I’ll be at Eastercon in Belfast this weekend, so if you’re there and lurking in the trees like a gigantopithecus, come over and say hello.
I have two events on Sunday.
At 11:00 I am on the panel for Writing Comedy in SFF.
At 14:20, I’ll be giving a Reading from new novel, Dirty Boy.
On Monday, at 11:00, I’ll be part of a panel discussing Monsters and Monstrosity.
Would love to see you there.
Very pleased to let you know that I have an essay coming in There’s Nothing Out There: Essays on the Art of Being Lost, edited by Sophie Essex, published by Black Shuck on April 24th 2025.
Life is a Horror Movie: The Footnotes is part-essay on the 2005 Neil Marshall-directed horror film, The Descent, and part personal essay.
There’s Nothing Out There also features work by Dan Coxon, Andrew Hook, Pete Sutton and many more.
