Thanks to everyone who made it to the Scottish Writing Centre last week, where the first ever reading from my novel-in-progress got an amazing response from the crowd! Wish you’d been there? Fear not. Over the next two weekends you catch me reading in-person, plus chatting online with Premee Mohamed and Ren Hutchings! Check out the details below…
I don’t know about you, but I’m still buzzing from this weekend’s Cymera Festival. Thanks ever so much to everyone who joined me, Adrian Tchaikovsky and Cassandra Khaw for ‘Writing Multitudes’ on Saturday. And if you missed it and didn’t get a weekend pass, ticket holders can now grab an Access Pass that will get you in to the Archive, where you can hear Adrian and Cass chat about sensory engagement, queerness, and fascist-eating dinosaurs.
What an amazing time Flights of Foundry was! Fun panels with amazing creative minds, and the opportunity to share and discuss with a vibrant community across the world. I hope you had a grand time too if you went. But now the time has come to talk of other things**. Specifically June, and how to sign up for the splendid things I’m doing then.
The cards have been sent, the gifts are all wrapped, and this afternoon I go into Newcastle for my annual Christmas whiskey-drinking session with a local pal. In other words, this is the perfect moment to reflect on the past year.
This weekend, the debut run of Scotland’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Festival, CYMERA, kicks off in Edinburgh. If you’re planning on heading up, down, or over, here’s where you can catch me.