I’m so pleased to announced that I wrangled the intricacies of publishing a paperback throught Draft2Digital and can now offer The Swordmaster’s Secret and Other Stories – a collection of short Holmes/Watson stories set after the end of The Adventure of The Colonial Boy – as a hard copy book! It’s a slender but quite…
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New Sherlock Holmes Anthology: When the Rose Speaks Its Name
I’m so please to announce the publication of When the Rose Speaks Its Name, a new queer-themed Sherlock Holmes anthology that is raising funds for ar-risk LGBTQ youth in the UK, via akt. Contributing authors include the splendid Atlin Merrick as well as EC Boss, Linda M. Crate, Anna Graham Doe, Larc Enciel, Alexandra Fox,…
Read moreNew pre-order: The Haunting of Baker Street
I’m excited to announce a new tiny ebook of 221B ficlet stories – The Haunting of Baker Street! These wee fics were first published at my Patreon, and together they form the whole story of how Sherlock Holmes and John Watson come to haunt Baker Street and how, in the 21st century, two new tenants…
Read moreNew and reissued ebooks!
I had a few issues with eBooks being missing or not available recently, so I’m delighted to announce that the following three books are available again! Walking Shadows Walking Shadows is now available on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes and Noble and other online retailers. It’s still being rolled out so keep an eye out. In the…
Read moreEvents in May 2024! A convention and a book launch
Continuum 16 17-19 May, 2024 at the Jasper Hotel, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne I’ll be at Continuum 16 this coming weekend – and I’ll have a table in the dealers room on Friday! So if you’re after some books, some story-related jewellery, or just a chat after too long apart, I look forward to seeing your…
Read moreNew! Sherlock is a Girl’s Name (and a teaser)
I’m delighted to announce the official release of the Sherlock is a Girls’ Name anthology – co-edited by me and Atlin Merrick – which imagines Sherlock Holmes as female, in tall tales that follow the great detective and her Watsons in deep space, 1990s Russia, Victorian London, contemporary USA, worlds of magic and more. Sherlock…
Read moreNew! The Swordmaster’s Secret: The Further Adventures of the Colonial Boy
I’ve just compiled a little ebook of stories I wrote that are set after The Adventure of the Colonial Boy – just in time for the HistFic Outside the Box promo, which starts today and goes till 30 April! In the promo, you can buy my Sherlock Holmes/John Watson historical crime romance The Adventure of…
Read moreNew! The She-Wolf of Baker Street
My new book made her first appearance at Clunes Booktown in late March 2024 – and now she’s available to all! The She-Wolf of Baker Street in inspired by several things – my love of the Holmes stories, my delight in writing adventures full of queer characters and how much I like writing about fantastical…
Read moreCover reveal: Sherlock is a Girl’s Name
I’m so delighted to reveal to you the cover of the upcoming anthology, Sherlock is a Girl’s Name, edited by me and Atlin Merrick and featuring 11 short stories and 4 221bs where Sherlock identifies as a woman, all written by female-identifying authors. The stunning cover art, featuring 11 Sherlocks from all the longer stories,…
Read moreRe-Release: Walking Shadows
Over on my Patreon, the serialisation of my second Vampires of Melbourne book, Walking Shadows, ended late last year, after being out of print for several years. Now the new ebook, with its pretty new Jill Harris cover (that matches that on the re-release of The Opposite of Life) is now available! The Blurb What’s…
Read more“After I Found Her” Award Nomination
It’s so exciting that a third story from This Fresh Hell has been nominated for an award! Joining Eugen Bacon and Clare Rhoden’s story “Paperweight” being longlisted for the 2023 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards under Best Short Fiction, and Chuck McKenzie’s “The Dark Man, By Referral”, shortlisted in the 2023 Aurealis Awards!, we have Claire…
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