In May, I spoke to Ian Eagleton from The Reading Realm, a new iPad app for children that encourages a love of reading. We talked about reading, writing, collaborating on picture books, and covering challenging topics such as grief in…
In December, I spoke to Ploy Radford (@Ploy_Radford on Twitter / @ployford29 on Instagram) for her fascinating podcast "Millennials Now", where she interviews young(ish) folk like me to talk about living and working as millennials. We spoke about my career as a…
BLACK DOG is the sixth and (in some respects, at least) final story in CHRISTMAS DINNER OF SOULS, told by the sepulchral Drybone Creathe. It’s his first-person account of heading to the island of Cu Sith to evict an impoverished,…
THE BEAST is the fifth story in CHRISTMAS DINNER OF SOULS, told by the gruesome big-game hunter Bloodrick Gallant. It’s the account of a Christmas he spent at his grandfather’s vast mansion filled with stuffed animals. He finds another stuffed…
MISS MAGPIE is the fourth story in CHRISTMAS DINNER OF SOULS, told by the vicious equestrian poisoner Miss Ariadne Biter. It’s the story of an incident from her own childhood, where an elderly neighbour of hers is tormented by a…
THE KENSINGTON SYSTEM is the third story in CHRISTMAS DINNER OF SOULS, told by Sir Algernon thoroughbred-Pilt. It’s a story within a story: the first part is about a man whose car breaks down one night and is forced to…