I just finished your book and IMAGINE MY SURPRISE WHEN I LOOK TO THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND ITS NOT WRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN!!!!!!!! This is easily the most accurate portrayal of America in fiction I've read in a while. Jump scare warning was needed, had to go rant on Tumblr. (Anyway loved your book, love your writing style, really liked Sherman and related to Riley a bunch ok byeeeeeeee)

AHHHHHHHH thank you so much! Yes, I often feel like an anthropologist studying modern-day America just by dint of reading so many books and comics, and watching so many films set there! It's a fascinating place. This book is my thesis paper!

I can only claim partial credit for my portrayal of the good ol' US of A - my initial draft was crammed full of international spellings and silly assumptions (there was originally a functional train system in Sunnylake...) that my marvellous Betas, agent, editor and proofreader helped me weed out!

I'm really glad you enjoyed the story! Thanks so much for letting me know!

Buy my book here (USA)!

Or here (UK)!

GUESS WHAT CAME TODAYYYYY BABYYYYYY

She's beauty, she's grace.

Seriously love the hardcover design and colour choices.

AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

It arrived!! I'm so excited ahhhhhhhhhhhhskdfljglksdgfjlksd

Enjoy! And yes, the cover is so gorgeous - I owe the design team at Macmillan my entire heart (or another organ of their choice).

If anyone's up for Queer (anti)Superhero Henchperson Anticapitalist Nonsense, you should totally check out my book!

Tell me! About the new wip! Yell things! Plz!

mundus transit et concupiscentia eius

Title: DREAMHUNTERS. or SOMNUS SANCTI. or THE SANDMEN'S SCHOOL FOR SLEEPLESS YOUTH. idk hfjfjgfgj

Age range: MG or YA (haven't yet decided the MCs' ages...) Genre: urban fantasy, high school fantasy, light horror Main characters: Zack, white British bi trans boy, 13-15, absolute coward and proud of it. Sour and sneaky, he doesn't know how to do this whole friend thing and doesn't intend to start. Reacts to kindness like a feral kitten to strokes; would lie about getting bitten in a zombie apocalypse. Zoe, Pakistani-British hijabi bi cis girl, 13-15. Fun-loving and adventurous, she's the sunshine to Zack's scowl. In fact, she's a little too eager to throw herself into danger. She has all the self-preservation instinct of a gingernut biscuit and (worse yet, if you ask Zack) a deep-seated desire to do the right thing. Vanderloss, Black British disabled Ehlers-Danlos enbie, 26-ish. An overpowered disaster of a teacher. Despite caring deeply for all xer little brats, xe remains an extremely distractable dork. Has lost children on school trips. Will do it again. I love xem anyway. <3

Every night in Cambridge, the Time Eater clock strikes twelve.

Then it strikes thirteen.

And the monsters come out.

Reality and Dream: two worlds in a locked orbit, converging only at their furthest-flung edges. During the thirteenth hour, when time traps mortals like flies in tree sap, nightmares seep into our realm and devour human minds. They leave comatose victims in their wake, lost to the deadly Sleeping Sickness, as well as a constant, palpable undercurrent of fear.

But the nightmares should be frightened, too.

Beneath the grand Gothic vaults of Trinity and Kings lies another world of academia - one far more ancient, devoted to the arcane. Every year, a hundred humans are born a step outside of time, able to walk through the inverted lightscape of the Thirteenth Hour as if they too are spun not from substance, but surreality. The Sandman Academy gathers these youths, grants them their hourglasses - containing solidified granules of sunlight, the only effective weapon against dreams - and trains them to fight for all humanity.

And to die.

Horribly.

Torn apart by their worst nightmares.

So, when Zack Wilder is chosen as one of humanity's guardians, you can see why his reaction is no way in hell. Allergic to risk-taking, conflict, things that go boo in the night (and, some would say, fun) Zack just wants to restart his nice, normal life at his nice, normal school, under his new name. And to find a binder that's comfy for PE class. Is that really too much to ask?

In contrast, when Zoe Ansari received a giant hourglass and was told she would train to slay nightmares, her only question was when do we start? Zoe quickly falls in love with the warped Escher-world of the Thirteenth Hour. She knows no fear. She knows no danger. She knows, if you ask Zack, far less than she thinks she does, and is likely to get herself and everyone in a ten-mile radius dead - which makes it a crying shame that he's her training partner.

Zack grudgingly joins the Sandmen in the hopes that they can save his grandma, who is in hospital after having her mind stolen by a dream. But shadowed secrets lurk in the heart of their new school. When Zack and Zoe discover a dangerous truth about the Sleeping Sickness, they will be forced to question their loyalty to the school and each other, and what it truly means to be brave.

Hi! Not a huge tumblr user but I was listening to Furysong by Rosaria Munda while tacking up my dear 25-year-old horse for a ride and I was like, “what if someone did DRESSAGE BUT WITH DRAGONS?!” So I looked around online on the off chance anyone had written that and stumbled upon Dressage Dragons. Then I saw it’s sapphic and lost my little bisexual mind!

How’s it going? Is there any way I can get involved/hype it up/support you? I saw you already have plenty of beta readers. 😢

AHHHHHHHH hello! What a lovely ask! I'm so glad you're excited about this book!

Yes, dressage dragons is a funky sapphic YA novel about precisely that concept - it truly does do what it says on the tin!

The novel is currently out on submission to various publishing houses! The industry is agonisingly slow at the minute, so my agent and I are just waiting paitently (read: I'm scrabbling at the wall) for responses. I'll keep you all updated! x

GUYS GUYS GUYS

GUESS WHO’S UP ON NETGALLEY?????

Thanks a thousand times to @displayheartcode for letting me know!

not me getting to the climax of No Man’s Sky and staring over my shoulder at Bad Necromance instead like

F1 or G3!

How about both???

I am giving you heart-eyes like Oly and Jagura in the second pic because you helped me pin down the character designs

Thank youuuuu

Anyway, without further ado: the main quad of characters from No Man's Sky (also known as: Neunundneunzig Whale Corpse Balloons)!

Brief character descriptions under cut.

We have...

MAVRIK (scarred face and armour)

Geralt of Rivia, if he was a grouchy, unsociable, awkward teenage girl. Badass fighter. Generally just bad at conversation - she much prefers grunting and glaring from the corner. She accidentally got soul-bonded to her worst enemy, a wicked lightning demon who's trying to destroy all of humanity.

DAVE (tiny and green)

The worst enemy.

OLY/OLEANDER (short hair, blue top)

;) Mystery man! I can't give too much away, because spoilers. Delicate city prettyboy, sweet-talking super-smart conman with a fancy for the finer things in life. Lies as easily as he breathes and has more secrets than he has smiles. Just in it for the money. Totally hasn't grown to care about Mavrik and Jagura over the course of their adventure. Haha, no way. Nope. Not him.

JAGURA (eye patch and fancy coat)

Skywayman. Aka, enbie skypirate captain. Batman gambit connoisseur, cheerful ball of sunshine and energy who can flip into a menacing, bloodthirsty bandit persona in 0.5 seconds or less. Which one's the real Jagura? If you find out, please tell them.

FAIR WARNING: any of the details/physical characteristics here might change in future! I'm just on the first draft, and I'm a big discovery writer!

No Man’s Sky is at 65K+, with a full first draft to be finished after Camp!

...which means at some point I should find a title that doesn’t belong to a well-known multiplayer game 😎

To celebrate Trans Day of Visibility, it’s me, your local trans author, drawing cute art for my debut novel! Bonus points for any of my incredible betas who recognise these dorks!

Strictly No Heroics

Queer Superhero YA!

#Superheroes Behaving Badly #wlw #plus-size protag #mutual pining

Coming 03/28/23 [American date] with Feiwel & Friends, Macmillan Children’s!

Goodreads link here!

Website!

Twitter!

I love making these five damaged bastards yell at each other

like heeheehee you’re all gonna wind up as found family

I am causing problems for my characters on purpose

Yeah, I’m going to perform highly unethical, agonising experiments on you. But it’s for the good of our species, and I truly am sorry.

I wish it didn’t have to be like this. I wish I could make this easier on you. I regret what I’m doing to you, but I can’t let you go - your suffering is for the greater good, you understand?

I wish you understood. It would make this so much easier.

Why do you have to make this so difficult? I’m being nice.

Look, love, you’re going to be stuck with me for a long time. We might as well get along.

Can I get you anything? Tea? Juice?

Man, I love writing Affable Evil

Man, I love writing Affable Evil

In the produce drawer at the back of the fridge! It had gone a bit gunky and slimy. We fear it might’ve been there long enough to gain sentience.

can i have your attention please

:taps mic:

I would like everyone to know that the villains of my next book have finally found a motivation beyond just ‘be evil for the lulz’

can i have your attention please

:taps mic:

I would like everyone to know that the villains of my next book have finally found a motivation beyond just ‘be evil for the lulz’

PUB DEETS FOR STRICTLY

SORRY AGAIN FOR SPAMMING THAT COVER POST

But just to be clear, the pub date for my debut is 28 March 2023!

It can be found here on Goodreads (though I haven’t gotten my account linked up yet rip)

I WILL STOP REBLOGGING THE COVER POST NOW :ducks back under rock:

wot if

wot if I spent the whole evening daydreaming about my Camp Nano project instead of prepping it

wot if that huh