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Psst, you can read the opening chapters of Rotting Trees (young adult, witchy, bad decision making) completely free: https://ko-fi.com/s/621e00a660

Talking about pushing back mirrornovel, my MA adventures and more (plus a lovely reading I reckon): www.patreon.com/posts/tarot-chat-2025...

Hello hello,

I’m chilly and it’s raining. I’ve been hearing about the UK’s false autumn so I’m grateful for rain, but I really enjoyed not having cold knees. And not having to put on socks. And not laundering socks. Where do they go.

I’ve almost finished The Lord of the Rings. I didn’t flick between the main story and the appendices while I was reading so now I’m picking through Appendix A trying to remember which elves I’ve met. In the meantime I read a fantastic contemporary satire a cou...

Giving away ebooks of my last two novels, The Princess and the Dragon and Other Stories About Unlikely Heroes (2020) and Rotting Trees (2025). Just sign up to my monthly-ish mailing list by 28th August. Next newsletter goes out circa 8th Sept!

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(Ft. Samantha Shannon, Liann Zhang, Maggie Stiefvater AND MORE)

Long time no chitchat. It feels a long time, because I was working on the final module of the semester when I last wrote and now the film debuted two months ago. How’s your summer? Done anything fun? Raged against the machine? Me too, if you count working on mirrornovel as an alternative to reading the news, beginning to scream, and not stopping.

I know a lot of ‘long time no see’ posts say things like ‘I took a digital break!’ or ‘I had my eighth child and adopted a cat then moved continents...

Hi hi,

You can get 50% off Rotting Trees on Smashwords throughout July! You can send Smashwords ebooks to any ereader which is is cool.

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The lovely Monica from Spells and Tomes interviewed me for Rotting Trees:

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Find Monica at https://www.goodreads.com/spellsandtomes

Psst, I've refreshed my Folksy store with more signed copies of Rotting Trees plus some merch!

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