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Time Management for Writers? It's ME Management

​I like to be organized, but no matter what I can’t seem to expand the practice of having a day planner/phone/computer calendars that contain all my deadlines and birthdays and random events to the rest of my life, especially my life as a writer, into making me feel truly organized. I like to read about time management, different organizational styles, how our brains tend to deal with these things, etc., but reading about it and actually implementin...

Recently, I made the British Fantasy Society (BFS) shortlist for two awards!

Best Non-Fiction:
Spec Fic for Newbies Vol 2: A Beginner's Guide to Writing More Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
This means that the Spec Fic for Newbies series, by me and co-author Val Nolan, has made the BFS awards shortlist twice after Volume 1 was a finalist last year. Go to the Spec Fic tab at the top of the page to read more.

Best Short Story:
"The Oracle at Dairy" published in Trembling with Fear vi...

Spec Fic for Newbies Volume 2 was recently shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association's award for Best (Long) Nonfiction! My co-author Val and I were well chuffed because Vol 1 was also a finalist in the same category last year. The BSFA awards will be announced at Eastercon in Belfast later this month.

Additionally, Vol 2 made the Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List (as Vol 1 did last year), which means it is on the voting list for the Locus Awards. EVERYONE can vote until April...

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​February is UK Ghost Story Festival month! The online event is 14th-16th February and includes over a dozen writing workshops, talks, and author and filmmaker interviews, including a workshop I'm running on Saturday the 15th at 12.30-1.30 called "Who's Haunting You?" in which I will lead writers through a deep dive into the types of ghosts and spirits and how knowing who's haunting you can influence your story. For more info and to get tickets, go here . 

The in-person event is 21-23 February a...

Horror Tree has been a really supportive place since Spec Fic for Newbies came out (check out our video interview with them over on Horror Tree's YouTube channel ), and just recently they published my short story "The Oracle at Dairy".

The story was inspired by a nursery rhyme and a really dumb play on words (Oracle at Delphi, get it? I said it was dumb!). But the story itself is about the lengths you go to protecting those you love, and how sometimes you miss what's right in front of you. So rea...

Black Shuck Books has just released its newest anthology, Great British Horror 9: Something Peculiar, which includes my newest short story "Until the Wheel Spins Round Again." The story is about a woman who flips houses for a living, and her newest acquisition is, well, odd, and then the pandemic hits. At night, she hears a baby crying, and she finds curious items hidden behind walls. As you move forward in time with our house flipper, you discover the story of a girl who lived in the same hous...

I had a great time over on Journey Through Sci-Fi talking to Matt and James for their Space Opera series. I *love* the MCU, so getting to nerd out about Guardians and Thor: Ragnarok? Oh, it was such hard work! Give it a listen HERE .

On Saturday, Sept 14, join me (!) and three other authors for a series of writing workshops on Folk Horror! I'll be running the first session, breaking down how to approach Folk Horror into steps that will help you delve into this fascinating subgenre. At the end of my workshop we'll do an activity that will get you writing a whole new story!  Read more about the event here and get tickets! 

Over at the British Fantasy Society's blog, I talk about the trope of Evil Children in this month's "Subgenre Deep Dive"! If you're a Gen Xer like me, you remember how scary Damien from The Omen was (as if the bullies in school weren't bad enough!), but just think how terrifying that was for the adults in the room. Now we have enough issues with wretched adults (and too many videos of reprehensible behavior on airplanes!), but scary, possessed kids are a bit more awful now that we are the adult...