Same Same But Different

I've been neglecting my blog of late! I know, I know, it's a familiar and regular cry from bloggers all over the land!

I've been busy doing some freelance editing, tutoring my short story course for the Retreat West Creative Writing School, and – more recently – doing some marketing work for an indie publisher. This has all left very little time for writing, and I seem to be busier as a part-time self-employed person than I ever was as an employee. Which isn't quite what I'd planned!

I've had some recent success with short stories, winning the H E Bates Short Story Competition and being Highly Commended for the Fish Short Story Prize, and my short story, 'An Unfamiliar Landscape' has just been published in a beautiful hardback collection, Same Same But Different, alongside writers such as A L Kennedy, Helen Simpson, Paul McVeigh and Alison Moore. So lots of exciting stuff going on.

My new novella, Crossing the Lines will hopefully be out from Victorina Press at the end of this year, and I've just signed a contract for my next short story collection, An Unfamiliar Landscape, with another indie press. More news on that soon!

So that's all my news – how about you?

Hopefully I'll be around more now, as I plan to share some author interviews with you soon.