Belated thank you to everyone who attended the event with me at the Blue Willow Bookshop on the release of Husband Material, and of course to Blue Willow and the wonderful Cathy Berner for hosting me. As ever, there were more questions than I could answer so I've tried to address them here. Some ... Read more »
writing
Blue Willow Followup 2
Soooo, because I rambled so much at the actual Blue Willow event I got through even fewer questions than I usually get through. In light of this, I decided to ... well, answer them as best I could, since it felt unfair to me to ask readers to take time out of their lives to ask me questions for me ... Read more »
Books for Ukraine
EDIT: BOOKS ARE ALL GONE. FORM IS NO LONGER ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR GENEROSITY. IF YOU HAVE SLIPPED THROUGH THE NET SOMEHOW AND HAVE MADE A DONATION BEFORE THE FORM CLOSED PLEASE EMAIL MARY(AT)QUICUNQUEVULT(DOT)COM AND WE'LL SORT YOU OUT! Hello. Here’s a thing ... Read more »
State of the Hall 2022
Hello internet. Fuck me, it’s 2022. Like, no, seriously that’s a proper science fiction year. I fully expected to be writing this blogpost from my flying car on Moonbase Alpha in a garishly coloured jumpsuit. Also, I didn’t expect it to be a blogpost. I expected to be dictating it into a weirdly ... Read more »
a mini FAQ all about sex
I do Q&As fairly regularly in a bunch of different contexts, sometimes on blogs, very rarely live (like the lovely event that Cathy Berner was kind enough to host at the Blue Willow Bookshop recently) but the Q, or rather set of Qs, that I’m going to A today is one that seems to be coming up ... Read more »
fitter, happier, more productive
Soooo…I’m a touch self-conscious here because I tend not to blog about writing itself. It’s such a subjective undertaking I have no idea what I could possibly say that could be useful or interesting to someone else. And on top of that I’m genuinely uncertain of the degree to which ... Read more »
super quick update
For those who get their news from my blog rather than from Twitter, please be aware that I’ve recently withdrawn my books from Riptide Publishing. What this means in practice is that, for a short while, any titles previously distributed via Riptide (which is to say, anything that doesn’t have the ... Read more »
ALL THE EXCITE
I’m currently suffering with a godawful flu - which has impeded even my ability to watch terrible Hugh Grant films. But normal service will resume soon enough, I’m sure. I’m also aware I’ve left things up in the air a bit when it comes to my various projects, so here’s a State of the Hall ... Read more »