It's official! I'm leaving Endeavour Media to go and do an MA in Creative Writing at the UEA! I am so, so excited for this next step, and am really grateful to UEA for offering me a place on this amazing course. I'm handing over the Endeavour reins to the marvellous James Faktor, who will keep all [...]
Greenwich Book Fest: Is the Future of Publishing Digital?
This Saturday, 16th June at 10am, I'll be on a panel at Greenwich Book Festival with the wonderful Katy Guest from Unbound, the insightful Victoria Hughes-Williams from The Pigeonhole, and the fabulous Rosamund Davies from Creative Conversations as our chair. We will be discussing all things digital, and where the future of publishing might be headed: [...]
Hello to haiku
I'm steeling my nerves a bit here because I don't normally share my poetry, but over the past few weeks I've set up a little poetry social media presence under the name Haikurkbride. Not everything I do is strictly, fashionably, or technically a haiku, but it is all micropoetry at least! You can find me on: [...]
Mailing list is go – with a FREE eBook for subscribers
A month has just flown by since I last posted, but it hasn't been without event: London Book Fair has been in full swing this week and I've been there having the most fun championing backlist books with the Endeavour Media team! With some nervousness, I have also set up a writerly mailing list, because apparently these are quite [...]
French translation of Boost
The translations keep on coming thick and fast, but this one is particularly exciting because it is in a language I've never had a book translated into before: French! The publisher DUNOD has done an amazing job on designing this beautiful edition, titled Boost - Faites décoller votre confiance en vous, and have even made some super [...]
Stress Less and Believe in Yourself translations
A few months ago, Believe in Yourself was released in Albanian, and Stress Less came out in Dutch - now it's the other way around! The lovely folks at Lantaarn have put together a beautiful Dutch translation of Believe in Yourself, called How to Feel Good, and Minerva Botime has created an Albanian version of Stress Less - Më Pak Stres. I'm [...]
Fairlight Books February author spotlight
Following the publication of The Locust Theorem and The Cloud Loom, the lovely folks at Fairlight Books have decided to put me in their author spotlight for the month - how very thrilling! While your over there, don't forget to read both the stories as well, they're completely free to read... "It is probably best [...]
‘Proscenium’ is here!
It's been a really busy week, and I've only just had time to post about the fact that Proscenium was published in Fictive Dreamon Thursday. I've been really touched and pleased by its reception so far - the lovely Sophie G. on Twitter said it "totally nails beautiful/sad" - which really made my day! As [...]
‘On the Last Rebellion’ in Open Pen
Happy Sunday everybody! Fantastically excited that On the Last Rebellion has been published by the lovely Sean and friends over at Open Pen! You can't really do excerpts for flash fiction, so here's the first two sentence and you can find the whole 500-Word read here: To be invaded is a penetration. If not bodily, [...]
‘On the Last Rebellion’ in Open Pen THIS WEEKEND!
Phew, it's been a busy week all round, but particularly when it comes to short story news, as the beloved folks at Open Pen have just let me know they'd like to publish my flash fiction story On the Last Rebellion. It will be available ONLINE and FREE TO READ this weekend! You will be able to have a [...]
One week until ‘Proscenium’ goes live!
Taking to cyberspace on this cold winter's day to give a huge shout out to Fictive Dream online literary magazine, who one week today are publishing my short story 'Proscenium' as part of Flash Fiction February! I'm super proud have been selected as an author for this special short story month, and really recommend checking out [...]
SYP Webchat on Monday 15th January
Happy New Year everybody! I hope you all had a marvellous festive season and that 2018 has got off to a great start. It's certainly been busy this end already, and I'm very excited that on Monday 15th January, from 6.30-8pm, I'll be doing a live #SYPExpert webchat for The Society of Young Publishers [...]
Happy Festive Season!
'Twas the night before Christmas, the office quiet as winter. Nothing was stirring, not even the printer. But on stroke of midnight, the pages awoke, the protags jumped out & became party folk...! Settings unspooled and stole the mince pies, plots and pages danced 'til the sunrise. The dust jackets pranced, then they stole all [...]
‘The Locust Theorem’ is Story of the Week
Excitement levels have reached new heights, as The Locust Theorem, one of my latest short stories, is Story of the Week on Fairlight Books. If you haven't had a chance to look at it yet, you can follow this link, or check out the snippet below... Doctor Evans slept like the dead. She grumbled when I [...]
Byte the Book panel: How are indie publishers shaking up the industry?
Wow, it's been a very busy couple of weeks! First, I am so thrilled to have given my very first lecture ever, to the lovely Creative Writing & Publishing MA students at City University. It was a glorious morning, and huge thanks to Patrick Brindle the programme director, for inviting me along. Second, I was [...]
The Kindle – 10 years of teaching us time travel
Last weekend, Kindle celebrated it's 10th anniversary (that's right, we've had a whole decade of eBooks now!) In honour of the occasion, I penned a little read-to-read opinion piece for BookBrunch that links together backlist, time travel, and the famous eReading device itself! Don't forget to click the link for the full FREE article... The [...]
The Cloud Loom published with Fairlight Books
Happy Monday readers! Those of you who keep up with me on Facebook and Twitter will know that last week I had a piece of flash fiction called The Cloud Loom published on the Fairlight Books website. I am completely thrilled that the lovely short story editor Urska took on not one but two of my [...]
Publication of The Locust Theorem
I'm totally thrilled and excited to say that my latest short story, The Locust Theorem, has just been published by Fairlight Books. It's online, it's free to read right here, and is a lovely bit of sci-fi fun to get you through to the weekend. The story takes about twenty minutes to read and follows Andy [...]
Do you read in Albanian or Dutch?
In the past week a very cool thing has happened to me: I've had two books delivered to my house that I wrote, but which are in languages I don't speak! That's right, Stress Less has been translated into Dutch, and Believe in Yourself is now in Albanian - both available now in local European bookstores. [...]
DON’T PANIC has arrived!
Very exciting times in my house at the moment, as Don't Panic is finally here! It's a gorgeous little book and it's was my favourite to write in the series so far, but I understand I'm pretty biased about this release, so here are some lovely things people have said about the other books in the [...]
