In The Autumn Of My (Writing) Life

Summer’s never long enough, is it? If the reappearance of PSLs at your Starbucks wasn’t clear enough, or the resurgence of Gilmore Girls to the top of your Netflix algorithm, September’s upon us once more and the seasons seem to have finally turned. Here we go. I’ve long transcended caring enough about this blog to […]

New Year’s Progress

Dear lord, that last blogpost did not age well. As any long-time followers of this blog will know, a gap of seven months between posts isn’t exactly out of character for me. Nor is waxing lyrical about a novel’s progress, and proclaiming it will be done in a month or two. In actual fact, after […]

80k Update

Ahoy. Shadows‘ wordcount hit 80,000 this weekend, which by my usual standards is a bit of a suspicious milestone. I started writing this novel in March of this year – as a direct result of visiting the marvellous (and sadly over) Life in the Roman Army exhibition at the British Museum, as a matter of […]

Fine. *Fine*. *This* is what I’m writing.

Ahem. Been a while. Long enough for WordPress to completely reformat into a more user-friendly layout, that is a pleasant surprise as I type this. I’ve said a couple of times on posts this year that I’m trying to think about what this blog is going to do or say, and I’ve come to realise […]

Plans Afoot…

Ahoy there. Anyone who follows this blog semi-regularly is probably well accustomed to my whiplashing pace of content. Going from four posts in a month to nary a single update for three is very, very, on brand for me. To anyone who’s been getting their teeth into Herakles during this time (and they’re aren’t exactly […]

Herakles – More ARC Reviews

Greetings y’all. Since Kayla Cook‘s lovely review of Herakles is now out in the world, I thought it was only fair to add the couple of others that I’ve been lucky to receive since then. Firstly, a few words from Mark Knowles, who you may remember has written his own mighty trilogy about the exploits […]

5000th Time Lucky…

Ahem. So it would seem I missed a rather key milestone on this blog the other week. Not a lot to say here, but given how the last three years or so I’ve been trying (and largely failing) to build a following for my work, which could translate into any sort of meaningful impact on […]

Herakles – The (Liver-Eating) Eagle Has Landed

Yes, this post is over a fortnight late. Nope, I cannot bring myself to care. Well, the moment has come. As you will have probably seen from my Instagram and abominable TikToks, both eBookles and Paperbackles are now available to buy on Amazon, one for predictably less money than the other. And yes, I am […]

Herakles – eBook Pre-order

From seasons of silence, to two posts in one weekend. No self-indulgent diatribe today; this is just a little PSA that, as of today, the eBook version of Herakles is available to pre-order from Amazon KDP. If you own a Kindle e-reader, or any device that has access to the Kindle app or Amazon Library, […]