Escape Artists need our help

You all know by now what a huge fan I am of short fiction podcasts. I listen to a whole bunch of them. I also love it when my own short fiction gets podcast, and that’s happened a few times now. I made a page here with all my own podcast fiction linked up and a...

All Hallow’s Read 2013

All Hallow’s Read is a new tradition. It was started a couple of years ago by Neil Gaiman and the concept is very simple: On Halloween, or during the week leading up to Halloween, give someone a scary book. Brilliant. You can learn all you need to know here:...

Write the Fight Right digital course on sale

A while back I collaborated with Joanna Penn to make my Write the Fight Right workshop into a multimedia digital course available online. At the moment, Jo is running a sale on a bunch of her online courses, and mine is included. Between now and October 13th, all the...

Year’s Best contributor copy in my paw

This arrived today and it makes me very happy. It includes a reprint of my story, Tiny Live, originally published at Daily Science Fiction. And it’s an honour to share the pages with so many other amazing authors and their work. This is the third Year’s...

Lakeside Circus, Short fiction and other oddities

I’m very happy to report that my new short story, All the Wealth in the World, will be in the inaugural issue of a new digital magazine from Dagan Books called Lakeside Circus. It’s a short-form speculative fiction magazine, published quarterly. Beginning...