This blog has been sorely neglected due to a wedding, a postgraduate degree and finding things like Twitter are so much faster. I decided last night that this should be rectified for a number of reasons. Foremost in my mind was finding another blog, from a stranger, not at all affiliated with myself or any of the publications I’ve been in (to my knowledge), stating they were a “fan” of my work. For any writer that is the ultimate praise. And for someone like me who only produ

My story The Floating Market is now out in Lontar, Issue 2. Lontar is a South-East Asian journal of speculative fiction based out of Singapore. The Floating Market is a fantastical story  set in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam about a girl and an elephant. I have to admit, shockingly, despite my own cultural background, I only ever read European fantasy growing up. I loved all the Arthurian legends and sword and dragon-based books based on Western mythology. I was aware there was

Lontar Journal has accepted my short story “The Floating Market” for publication in a future issue of their magazine. Lontar is a great new journal filling a gap in the market for speculative fiction with a South-East Asian slant. I’ve been looking for translated/ English work for a while now from authors outside of the Japan and China influence and I’m really proud to contribute my piece to this. “The Floating Market” is a fantastical short story set in the Mekong Delta of V