Before ‘Sorrowthorn’. Before 'Less than Human'. Before ‘The Bookshop between the Worlds’. Before ‘The Heart’s Cog Imperative’. Before ‘The Saelvatici’. Before all of them, were poems and short stories, attempts to create worlds, attempts to find what kind of writer I was, attempts to find the stories that I was meant to write. Attempts to find my voice. But not just short stories, poems and novellas from before I began working on novels. Each 'Text..' will include some contemporary works, either published elsewhere or items that never found a home. A darker in tone collection than the first 'Texts...', this one features some early horror works, a genre I haven't really returned to.
Steven is an author, a performance poet, a storyteller and the Creative Director behind Tenebrous Texts.
He has created the Saelvatici, a darkly mythic retelling of the Robin Hood myth cycle and the 'Less than Human' series, which examines society through the viewpoint of a social care worker who is a Were-Squirrel.