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…
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New! 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…
Read more“The Dark man, By Referral” Award Nomination
Hot on the heels of Eugen Bacon and Clare Rhoden’s story “Paperweight” being longlisted for the 2023 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards under Best Short Fiction, we have Chuck McKenzie’s “The Dark Man, By Referral”, also from This Fresh Hell, shortlisted in the 2023 Aurealis Awards! Congratulations on your nomination, Chuck, and thank you…
Read moreNo Such Thing as an Alpha
[Having moved my entire website, some of my old posts have vanished – so I’ll be re-posting relevant ones, slightly edited, here from time to time.] My Mrs Hudson werewolf story, The She-Wolf of Baker Street, is due out this month – you should be able to find it at the Clunes Booktown Festival in…
Read morePre-order now: Anna Karenina Isn’t Dead
I’m so excited to have a story in the upcoming anthology Anna Karenina Isn’t Dead, published by Improbable Press and edited by Atlin Merrick. The gorgeous cover art you see on the left is by Claudia Caranfa. The anthology is inspired by the idea of rewriting the (out of copyright) literary lives of female characters…
Read more“Paperweight” Award Nomination!
It’s very exciting to see that “Paperweight” by Eugen Bacon and Clare Rhoden, which appeared in This Fresh Hell, has been longlisted for the 2023 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards under Best Short Fiction. Congratulations to Eugen and Clare for the nomination – and for writing such an intriguing, fresh story for Katya and…
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