To the round-up! Work Published in 2016 In January my story ‘The Water Museum’ was released online in Holdfast Magazine‘s Issue 8:Love, Sex and Romance, ed. Lucy Smee and Laurel Sills. This story was my seed idea of an underwater urban dystopia set in the UK. I had a lot of fun researching canals and dams in the northwest for this. After a successful Indiegogo campaign late in 2016, this story is also slated to appear in print in Holdfast Magazine’s 2nd anthology. More detail

It’s late in the month but it’s still January so I’ll attempt one of these review/ preview things. Reading Through my fortnightly book group and some other recommendations, I read about 25 books or graphic novels. Highlights for me were: Big Brother by Lionel Shriver. As expected from the author of We Need to Talk About Kevin this was a deeply uncomfortable but thought-provoking read which raised all questions about relationships with food, diets, family and judging others. I

My Vietnamese fantasy story “Spirit of Regret” has been accepted for publication in Insignia’s South-East Asian Fantasy Stories. I wrote it after living and working in Vietnam. In the cities, the young couples would sit in yoghurt shops and cafes reading manga and barely talking to each other and it inspired this story. There are also more motorbikes than people in Ho Chi Minh city. I found Vietnam to be a complex and gritty place that actually taught me more about other part