My publications
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Below you will find links to upcoming and existing publications. I also have work published across a number of online publications, such as Picaroon (poetry), Bonnie's Crew, and Eunoia Review.
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Copycat is my sophomore novel, published June 24th 2019 by Bloodhound Books. The novel is available through a number of retailers, both physical and online, including Amazon where both print and digital copies are available to purchase.
Blurb:
When the body of a young woman, Jenni Grantham, is found abandoned, DI Melanie Watton and her team are called to investigate. It soon becomes apparent that the murder, the method and the appearance of the victim, is something they have seen before.
With the help of Medical Examiner George Waller, DI Watton uncovers the case history of Michael Richards – a local murderer who killed five women before turning himself in.
Further investigations reveal that Jenni was recently reported missing by her parents. And when Jenni’s personal effects are explored, shocking discoveries are made about the victim’s fascination with the original killings.
However, when the ME makes a surprise discovery, DI Watton realises that Jenni was perhaps not the only local with a fixation on these infamous killings.
With a copycat killer on the loose, the team know it is only a matter of time before another body is discovered. But when a second victim is found, the team find themselves questioning everything they thought they knew…
Blurb:
When the body of a young woman, Jenni Grantham, is found abandoned, DI Melanie Watton and her team are called to investigate. It soon becomes apparent that the murder, the method and the appearance of the victim, is something they have seen before.
With the help of Medical Examiner George Waller, DI Watton uncovers the case history of Michael Richards – a local murderer who killed five women before turning himself in.
Further investigations reveal that Jenni was recently reported missing by her parents. And when Jenni’s personal effects are explored, shocking discoveries are made about the victim’s fascination with the original killings.
However, when the ME makes a surprise discovery, DI Watton realises that Jenni was perhaps not the only local with a fixation on these infamous killings.
With a copycat killer on the loose, the team know it is only a matter of time before another body is discovered. But when a second victim is found, the team find themselves questioning everything they thought they knew…
Intention is my debut novel, published January 30th 2019, by Bloodhound Books. The novel is available through a number of physical and online booksellers, including Amazon (where it is available in both Kindle and print format).
Blurb:
When twenty-two-year-old Gillian Thompson returns from university for the summer, it is apparent there is tension at home. An irritant to her father and a concern to her mother, Gillian's home life is less than ideal. Geraldine, Gillian's mother, has suffered abuse from Joe for years. However, it is not until Joe dies that the family dynamic shifts and Gillian starts out on her own dark journey...
When Gillian meets Paul and Daniel she starts to become the person she always knew she was. And as people around her start dying Gillian faces scrutiny from her mother. But are the deaths accidents or is something more sinister at work?
Blurb:
When twenty-two-year-old Gillian Thompson returns from university for the summer, it is apparent there is tension at home. An irritant to her father and a concern to her mother, Gillian's home life is less than ideal. Geraldine, Gillian's mother, has suffered abuse from Joe for years. However, it is not until Joe dies that the family dynamic shifts and Gillian starts out on her own dark journey...
When Gillian meets Paul and Daniel she starts to become the person she always knew she was. And as people around her start dying Gillian faces scrutiny from her mother. But are the deaths accidents or is something more sinister at work?
A Z-hearted Guide to Heartache is my debut poetry pamphlet that is due for publication with V. Press in July 2018. The collection is available for purhcase by clicking on the cover art just below, which will take you to the appropriate page on V. Press's own website.
This is a bite-size collection of poetry in which I tackle heartache, disability, and a lot of food (not in every single poem, admittedly) and it has to be said that this is a very personal and honest publication for me. I have always used poetry "to get things out", in a different way to how I use prose-writing, and this pamphlet is a clear example of how poetry has taken on a therapeutic role for me in many ways. The words in here are big and meaningful and, while some of them are fictional, the work is grounded in a lot of real-life incidents.
I will be launching this collection on Saturday, July 14th, at Park's Cafe in Droitwich alongside some wonderful readers from the local area as well. If you would like to come along, listen, and see what all the fuss is about then you would be most welcome.
This is a bite-size collection of poetry in which I tackle heartache, disability, and a lot of food (not in every single poem, admittedly) and it has to be said that this is a very personal and honest publication for me. I have always used poetry "to get things out", in a different way to how I use prose-writing, and this pamphlet is a clear example of how poetry has taken on a therapeutic role for me in many ways. The words in here are big and meaningful and, while some of them are fictional, the work is grounded in a lot of real-life incidents.
I will be launching this collection on Saturday, July 14th, at Park's Cafe in Droitwich alongside some wonderful readers from the local area as well. If you would like to come along, listen, and see what all the fuss is about then you would be most welcome.
The Women You Were Warned About: Answers to absent questions was published by Black Pear Press in May 2017, and it is available for purchase now by clicking the cover art just below.
This is my debut short collection in which I experiment with different short story formats, making an unconventional house in which to stash away my unconventional characters. Written in part as a response to David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, The Women You Were Warned About started out as a response to one big question: Where are all the hideous women?
Over the course of writing this book I noted down many (many) "female" behaviours that I knew happened - but I didn't know happened much in contemporary fiction - and I re-created them across short stories that are written as interview sequences, short stories that are written as scripts, and short stories with a choose-your-own-ending option (depending on how much of a break you need by the time you arrive at that piece).
This collection is packed with unconventional but, I hope, refreshingly honest speakers and through them I shine a light on those behaviours that many women are guilty of (but not many women are happy to admit out loud).
This is my debut short collection in which I experiment with different short story formats, making an unconventional house in which to stash away my unconventional characters. Written in part as a response to David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, The Women You Were Warned About started out as a response to one big question: Where are all the hideous women?
Over the course of writing this book I noted down many (many) "female" behaviours that I knew happened - but I didn't know happened much in contemporary fiction - and I re-created them across short stories that are written as interview sequences, short stories that are written as scripts, and short stories with a choose-your-own-ending option (depending on how much of a break you need by the time you arrive at that piece).
This collection is packed with unconventional but, I hope, refreshingly honest speakers and through them I shine a light on those behaviours that many women are guilty of (but not many women are happy to admit out loud).
