Last updated: 8th January 2026.
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I am emerging into the new year somewhat slowly and blearily, brimming with clumsy, improbable hope. That's all I really have to say.
Taking a break.
Not talking about this one just yet.
Just a lot of ten-minute writing exercises, really.
A novel about body horror, the apocalypse, and unspeakably traumatised teenagers. A passion project six years in the making.
Very happy to have been invited back to judge the Robert Coover Award!
A novelette that poses the question 'what if Victor Frankenstein was a sapphic YouTuber?'
A game about Oxbridge, the magical boarding school fantasy, and the general state of academia.
The grind goes on.
đ Butter by Asako Yuzuki (trans. Polly Barton), Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman), Selected Writings on Adoption, Fostering, and Child Care by John Triseliotis (ed. Malcolm Hill), Angel: City Of novelisation by Nancy Holder.
đē Various horror films, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, all of Doctor Who in chronological order.
đšī¸ Fire Emblem: Awakening, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.