In Joma West's Face, Margaret Atwood meets Kazuo Ishiguro in this sci-fi domestic drama that reimagines race and class.

Since finishing The Grief Nurse, I’ve been focusing on my new work in progress, tentatively called The Bone Diver.

Task management as a concept probably seems like it has absolutely no business anywhere near anything creative. For me, though, how I manage

A list of online and in print literary anthologies and presses that are dedicated to publishing fantasy, horror, folk tales, and speculative

Here is a list of joyful and hopeful books for the spring. None of them shy away from challenging or emotional themes, but you can slip into

We can take the gothic and move it outside onto the shore, where it feels quite at home.

A few new literary homes for my writing to round out 2021.

A list of literary anthologies & presses dedicated to fantasy, horror, and folk tales.

The mysterious sighting of a pencil sharpener in Portobello.

One of my favourite things to do along Edinburgh's seashore is to look for treasures.

These are the books that have inspired my autumn and winter

My thoughts on writing while working full-time and being a parent.

My Upcoming Publications & Awards

The UK and Irish plant lore of floxglove flowers.

These are the pottery kilns, the last remains of the Portobello Potteries and the only remaining pottery kilns in Scotland.

These are the books that have inspired my year. If you’re a fan of fantasy, folklore, and history with a magical edge, you might enjoy a goo

Publishing Opportunities for Fantasy & Folklore Writers

2018 was an eventful year. I had a baby, learned to code, started the third draft of my novel, got a gig as a web designer, became Artist...

My poem ‘After Betty Davis’ (which has been doing its rounds; first published in From Glasgow to Saturn then Transatlantic Literary Woman...

America has a new president, and I keep writing out it. Not in a direct way, but in the way that I’ve pretty much always written about my...