As you know, my first short story collection will be published by Elastic Press in August next year. I received this piece of good news by email back in January but couldn’t tell anyone about it as Andrew Hook had sworn me to secrecy. However, since Andrew himself let the cat out of the bag at Eastercon, I’d now like to quote part of that email:

“I was planning to read your stories today… The big surprise was that I hadn’t quite expected to finish them so soon! Truth be told, I had to read from one to another because I enjoyed them so much. ‘The Redoubt’ is fantastic, a truly heartrending story; but whilst it was easily my favourite story here, all the others were chomping at the bit to be as good. What I liked about them, as well as the many diverse, original, and fully-realised themes, were the characters and the human touches that made connections with today’s world whilst also nodding to the future. Great stuff.”