My Victorian murder mystery novel Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives was published in hardback by Titan Books in Oct 2024.

I also had 8 short stories published:

• ‘Wesley Not-There’ in Interzone #297, Jan 2024
• ‘Echec!’ as a standalone chapbook (Salò Press), Mar 2024
• ‘Small Lives’ in ParSec, Issue 10, May 2024
• ‘Production • Pristine White • Pale Green’ in The Utopia of Us (Luna Press), Jun 2024
• ‘Degrees of Freedom’ in Shoreline of Infinity, Issue 38, Aug 2024
• ‘The Scarecrow Festival’ in Elemental Forces (Flame Tree), Oct 2024
• ‘There Goes the Neighbourhood’ in Abyss & Apex, Issue 92, Oct 2024
• ‘Ends Abruptly’ in Uncertainties 7 (Swan River Press), Nov 2024

My essay ‘The Problem of the Faithful Pastiche’, about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and adaptations featuring well-known characters, was published in Writing the Murder: Essays on Crafting Crime Fiction, published by Dead Ink, Sep 2024.

I also won the Best Short Fiction Award at the British Fantasy Awards in October! The winning story, ‘The Brazen Head of Westinghouse’, was first published in IZ Digital (Interzone), then reprinted in Best of British Science Fiction 2023 (NewCon Press).

2024 projects

This is what I wrote this year:

• The final 20,000 words of a murder mystery novel begun last year
• The first 20,000 words of a cosy crime novel
• A full 100k draft, then structural edits of a commissioned novel yet to be announced
• Three short stories

In total, I wrote 181,450 words and spent 331 hours writing or editing.

Looking ahead to 2025

Early next year I’ll be able to announce two new books, both of which I’m very excited about.

As for what I’ll actually be writing, for the first time in several years I’ll begin the year with a relatively blank slate, which is also very exciting. Who knows what I’ll be reporting having written, this time next year!