Right now I’m in the anxiety bin that they call being ‘on sub’ - in other words the debut novel is out with publishers for their perusal and delight. Hoping to share more about that as soon as I can, but can probably say it’s a blend of weird fiction, folk horror and sci-fi.

I’m currently writing two very different novels. One of them is really odd and is about London. The other one starts just outside Liverpool and goes from there. Location and landscape are always a big part of my writing. It’s probably the maps. And the walking. And something to do with psychogeography or just the way that the normal and the mundane is actually uncanny and transcendental when you grub away at the surface for a bit.

These join the other two completed novels and a novella sitting there, lurking in the background. We’ll get to those in due course, I reckon.

There’s short stories too of course. One is about acceleration, another a locked-room ghost story in a space a few metres across. Lighthouses tend to figure a lot. So do boats. And service stations. And bunkers. Go figure :)

Oh, finally - in my previous life as an academic, I wrote a book about DOOM. You can read it free online here: DOOM: SCARYDARKFAST (fulcrum.org). I also wrote a fair number of papers on game studies, narrative and game history and preservation. Best place to start with all of that is probably here.