Golly, sequels are hard…

A couple of months back I announced I was working on a second book to my novel ‘The Things you find in Rockpools’. It’s been my most successful story to date, and features an 11-year old kid named Billy who uses his ingenuity to outsmart adults and gets everything a...

The inspiration for The Glass Tower

In the old days, when I only dreamed of being a writer, I had a rather movie-centric view of the job. In my mind I would be forever in dusty libraries, looking up obscure references in ancient books. And yes, I’m not too proud to admit it, more often than not the...

The Glass Tower Cover Poll

Below are three possible options for the cover for my next novel The Glass Tower (coming May 2019). I’d be super grateful if you could tell me which one most catches your eye (if any) and which would be most likely to get you interested in choosing to read the...

The Crab Scene

The Crab Scene The following scene is taken from The Wave at Hanging Rock, and I’ve put it here as perhaps the first time I ever got into a proper flow state when writing. I felt terrible afterwards, thinking I’d wasted a precious writing session, but then...

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