Earwigging for Creativity

What’s the difference between a writer and a stalker? The stalker has focus. Ba-dum-tish. That is hyperbole. Obviously, writers aren’t sitting outside your window touching themselves or eyeing up the right pot to boil a bunny in (not on the Read more

#WritersLife

Greetings all! Today I will be boarding a plane to head over to Bristol for the GLBTQ Meet. Rhys Ford is already in situ, Fala Black is on her way and Penndragon Press will be picking me up at the Read more

Throwing like a Girl/Sitting like a Man

Someone asked me the other day, ‘why don’t you write heterosexual romances?’*. The answer is that I do sometimes. I write romances, sometimes they are the traditional Mills and Boon style innie-and-outie romances, sometimes they aren’t. The reason I don’t Read more

The Dos and Don’ts of Cons!

Like I mentioned last week, come September and you will be able to find me in all my glory (I have a very fancy dress! You don’t know! I might wear it!) at the UK GLBTQ Fiction Meet in Bristol, Read more

The Long (Writers) Con with Charlie Cochrane

This year I was lucky enough to get my hands on a ticket the UK GLBTQ Fiction Meet in Bristol, where I will spend a weekend gacking around with writers, readers and whoever else will let an over-excited Northern Irish Read more

Idzillas, Asparagus and Rejection

I hate rejection. Hate it. Yet as a writer, I court it. I constantly approach strangers and ask them for their opinion of my freshly hatched, brain-baby. Sometimes, and I know this is a shock, they don’t think my brain Read more