News & Events
February 5, 2021
How are you doing?
Me, I think I’ve run out of things to say . . . Gone lockdown mute here. Brain fog. Low motivation, low interest . . . in anything, really. Have started and then stalled on at least three books …
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September 16, 2020
Hello there . . .
How are you doing?! Sometime back in March, my creative brain went into lockdown along with the rest of the world. I parked 50k words of a novel I just couldn’t face writing anymore, and took up garde …
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March 25, 2020
STAY SAFE!
OK . . . So I feel like I’m living in one of my own books. (And I do not like it.) Sending a great big virtual hug to everyone at this strange and scary time, and hoping you all stay as safe as you po …
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December 4, 2019
Don’t panic.
I have NOT abandoned this site. It just looks like it. I moved into a new house in June and I have been up to my safety goggles in DIY ever since. The whole place needed renovating: electrics, central …
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May 17, 2019
The Rain (H2O) in French! New edition . . .
Bonjour! We’ve got a lovely new French edition of The Rain (Tome 1), translated by Sidonie Van den Dries and published by Le Livre de Poche Jeunesse (Hachette). You can read all about it here – in Fre …
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February 20, 2019
INTERMISSION
Cue random picture of the fruit bowl. I’ve gone quiet. I’m moving. I left Bristol in January, now staying with friends near Bath and hoping to move into a new house very soon. (And am I writing? Well …
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November 21, 2018
THE XY IS HERE . . .
I am delighted to announce that The XY (UK title: Who Runs the World?) was published in the US by Sourcebooks on 6th November – and it has got an amazing cover: What’s intriguing is that I’ve h …
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June 6, 2018
US cover reveal: THE XY
It’s here! Who Runs the World? will be published by Sourcebooks as The XY in the USA in November 2018 . . . and the advanced reader copies (aka proof copies) are now printed. After flying in to Chicag …
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June 6, 2018
WisCon, Tiptree & the USA
I can feel a huge descriptive fail coming on because too much happened in America. (Flew out to Chicago then drove to Madison – via lunch at Sourcebooks in Naperville – for four nights and five days o …
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March 20, 2018
TIPTREE AWARD
I’m so very happy to share the news: Who Runs the World? has won the 2017 Tiptree Award. It is such a huge honour that my novel was chosen as winner from such an incredible international longlist. A h …
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